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Universal Pictures, “Insecure” star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (whose studio Monkeypaw are facilitating a whole lot of interesting work lately) are teaming up on movie “Sinkhole,” a thought-provoking genre piece that engaging with questions around female perfection and identity, adapted from a short story of the same name.

There are undeniable facts in the movie world, “Mad Max: Fury Road” is a perfect movie, “A Cure For Wellness” should have been a bigger hit, and the “Fast and Furious” franchise needs to go to space at one point. Well, it turns out that wish may soon become a reality, if we are to believe “F9” star Ludacris.

Universal Pictures is looking to reboot the classic tentpole “Twister,” and looks to have found a director to weather the storm.Sources tell Variety that Universal Pictures is developing a reboot of the 1996 blockbuster and is in negotiations with “Top Gun: Maverick” helmer Joseph Kosinski to direct.Frank Marshall will produce the pic and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the script.Plot details are vague on this latest version, but the original film starred Bill Paxton and

As the world waits to see Edgar Wright’s upcoming psychological terror, “The Last Night in Soho”— delayed into spring 2021 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic—the admired English filmmaker already has a new film on his radar. Wright will be adapting the popular, Amazon book “The Chain,” written by Irish writer Adrian McKinty.

Universal Pictures just dropped the very first trailer for the upcoming The King Of Staten Island, Judd Apatow’s film which comes to digital this June.

Autumn de Wilde, the director of Focus Featres’ “Emma,” flew home to Los Angeles on Thursday night after a London work trip and began a 15-day self-quarantine at a friend’s bungalow. Though not usually a nervous flier nor a germaphobe, de Wilde said she’d had a “stressful” flight because of her anxiety about coronavirus. “I was definitely feeling like the invisible enemy was getting to me,” she told Variety on Friday.

LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures said Tuesday that it will release the social satire “The Hunt,” a film it canceled in the wake of criticism about its premise of “elites” hunting people for sport in red states.