It’s a good time to be a fan of The Mummy. Lee Cronin’s horror movie The Mummy brings a fresh take to the classic movie monster in theaters this April, while Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will return for a new installment in the ’90s adventure franchise in 2028. While you wait for both mummy […]
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Announced earlier this month, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are set to return in The Mummy 4. Fraser has opened up about reprising his iconic role as Rick O’Connell in a conversation with AP. “The one I wanted to make was never made,” he confesses. Fraser says of the third installment, The Mummy: Tomb of the […]
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The label 19 Crimes has been celebrating Halloween the last couple years with a licensed line of Universal Monsters wines, with Frankenstein and Dracula kicking off the collab in 2023. Bride of Frankenstein got her own bottle last year, and The Mummy joins the mix this year! In addition to the brand new bottle of […]
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Romancing the Mummy. After concluding April with discussions of Ciarán Foy’s Eli (listen), a horror version of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, and the pseudo-sequel to Videodrome in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (listen), we’re kicking off May with a revisit to one of our favorite years for cinema: 1999! The film we’ve selected is Stephen Sommer‘s action-adventure-horror-romantic-comedy The Mummy! […]
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It was a very interesting weekend at the box office here in the United States. While the Sam Raimi-produced action-thriller Boy Kills World failed to make a splash and Radio Silence’s hugely entertaining vampire movie Abigail continues to make far less money than it deserves, two genre movies from the distant past managed to make […]
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While the original classic The Mummy just celebrated its 90th anniversary, the blockbuster hit remake from the late 1990s is celebrating its own 25th anniversary here in 2024. Universal Pictures today announced the U.S. theatrical re-release of the blockbuster action-adventure, The Mummy, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. The film, directed by Stephen Sommers and […]
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Following the release of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, at nearly 45 years of age and having spent twenty years as a professional actor, became an overnight sensation. As the film was still raking in its rewards, Universal signed him to a star contract and immediately began searching for a property for him. As it turned out […]
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Released in 2017 in the wake of the Brendan Fraser movies, the Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy was intended to kick-start Universal’s “Dark Universe,” but we all know how that worked out. The film’s under-performance at the box office spelled the swift end of the planned universe, and we haven’t heard a peep about any Mummy-related […]
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Before Tom Cruise was cast in a similar role as part of Universal’s failed “Dark Universe,” it was of course Brendan Fraser who was the lead of The Mummy franchise, starring as the heroic Rick O’Connell in The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor between 1999 and 2008. Fraser led the films to massive box office […]
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Back in 2017, The Mummy was intended to kick off Universal’s “Dark Universe,” but when the film wasn’t as big of a hit as Universal had hoped, well, it wasn’t long before the entire “Dark Universe” was completely dismantled. Universal is on a much-improved path with their Universal Monsters at the moment, but the failure […]
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Last October, NECA gave us a first look at a new toy line that mashes together the Universal Monsters and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the first time since the 1990s, with the first reveal turning Raphael into Frankenstein. The second figure revealed turned Leonardo into The Hunchback Ygor from the world of “Frankenstein”. Out of the New York Toy Fair, NECA […]
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NECA is working on a new line of Universal Monsters action figures based on the original classics, with Frankenstein’s monster, The Wolfman, The Mummy, and Dracula confirmed. Not only are they each getting full-color and classic black & white versions, but also accessory sets! The first major reveal comes out of the virtual Toy Fair with AFi sharing first details and photos […]
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NECA is working on a new line of Universal Monsters action figures based on the original classics, with Frankenstein’s monster, The Wolfman, The Mummy and Dracula confirmed. They’re each getting full-color and classic black & white versions, and this week NECA has unwrapped the official image gallery for their black & white version of The Mummy. “For the 90th anniversary […]
A spinoff of the Brendan Fraser-starring Mummy franchise, 2002’s The Scorpion King starred Dwayne Johnson as Mathayus, the titular Scorpion King, spawning its own film franchise that to date includes five installments. Johnson returned for precisely none of them, but he will be on board as producer for a brand new reboot on the way from Universal Pictures. As we […]
Yesterday we told you about new Universal Monsters action figures from Jada Toys, and today we learned that BendyFigs also has its own interpretations that have hit retailers across the country. I first caught wind of BendyFigs, finely crafted collectible figures from The Noble Collection, while attending this year’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios […]