Tag: Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures Acquires Filming Rights to Mark Millar's Brand New "Chrononauts" Comic Book Series

5:41 AM EDT 3/20/2015

Universal Pictures has optioned “Chrononauts,” the time-traveling adventure comic book series just after the release this week of its debut issue by Image Comics. The comic series follows main protagonists Dr. Corbin Quinn and his right hand man Danny Reilly as they cross into the timestream for the first time in human history.Read more

'Ride Along 2' Starring Kevin Hart & Ice Cube Will Be ‘Fresh and Fly’ &'Not Borrowing Jokes From the First One,’ Producer Promises

3:20 PM EST 1/16/2015

Universal Pictures Ride Along 2, the sequel to last year’s box office hit Ride Along, is scheduled for release on January 15, 2016. Again directed by Tim Story, Ride Along 2 is now in post-production. Will Packer, Matt Alvarez and Larry Brezner and Ice Cube’s Cube Vision produced. The script for the sequel was written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. And ass for the sequel’s storyline, the studio simply teased, “a second-grade teacher must deal with his wife's tough cop brother.”Read more

'Warcraft' The Movie, Will Not Be About a Good Race of Humans Battling An Evil Race of Orcs, Says Director, But About The Heroes On Both Sides Trying to Avoid A Conflict

11:20 AM EST 1/16/2015

Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Warcraft, the live-action full-length feature film based on the mythology explored in the popular video game of the same name, is scheduled to be released on March 11, 2016. Directed by Duncan Jones from a screenplay he co-wrote with Charles Leavitt, the film is set in the world of Azeroth and portrays the origin story of the initial encounters between the humans and the orcs, with equal emphasis on both the Alliance’s and the Horde’ sides of their conflict.Read more

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