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And looks as if the US is going to get nailed by yet another Hurricane with Hurricane Nate bearing down on New Orleans. This film just can't catch a break.

It will be lucky to get more then 50 total. I am still amazed people don't get this is a niche film aimed at the faith audience. Sony is not making much of an effort to sell this thing outside the base. It was never intended to compete with Coco or any other major release animates film. It's not like we don't get reminded of the story every December....... Get this: Most people know the whole story of Jesus Christ. It is just that many of us can't buy it as told in the New Testament or accept the standard theology behind it.

Lone Ranger jokes in a movie set circa 1 AD? I was not going to see this film because it looks like POS,but Now I will not go within a block of a theater showing it out of fear of infection.....

Villeneuve would be interesting, but he would have to be a team player, in the end, Barbara Brocolli and Micheal Wilson will be calling the shots.

Well, it's in the Dr Dolittle tradition. The 1967 film was notorious for going way,way, over budget. So much so that the management at Fox was very much afraid they had another Cleopatra on their hands.

And I still maintain a Marvel/DC "Universe" format is really questionable for the Universal Monsters.

Seems to me to do "Bride of Frankenstein" without a "Frankenstein" film first was always questionable.

I understand the budget was why Del Toro more or less withdrew from this film,with just a courtesy credit.

That is why until the 1980's Three hour movies had a breaking point for an intermission built in. I am a strong advocate for bringing back intermissions for really long movies.

COndon might just be talking the piss after seeing the project put in deep freeze. He wants Gadot. So does just about every producer in Hollywood at this point. Gadot will be rumored for just about every big female role she is halfway suitable for. One thing is sure:Gadot is the hottest actress in Hollywood at the moment, which means her asking price is probably quite a bit more then Jolie's,and Universal will be watching the pennies on this one after The Mummy's budget went out of control.

Dark Universe, Welcome to Development Hell.

Spiderman Home Coming was a Sony Production done in cooperation with Marvel Studios. Basically the deal is that Disney can use Spidey in the MCU films and Sony can use some MCU characters in their Spidey films. Marvel Studios is branch of the Disney Company,but one with a great deal of autonomy because the deal that brought Marvle to Disney was a merger, not an outright acquisition. The terms of the Merger legally guaranted Marvel a great dead of autonomy. DC Studios,on the other hand, are out and out owned by Warners,and only have the amount of automony that Warners chooses to give them.

Film's biggest problem is simple: All the good Abba songs got used in the original......

I suspect Neon is already booking Margot Robbie to make the rounds at ESPN and the Sports talk radio shows.....

Studios are often "Blown Away" by test screeneings. Most of the time it is just studio Publicity department Hype..which Deadline is notorious for falling for.

Gaga was kind of fun in AHS, but that role was over the top and campy (on purpose). As a serious dramatic actress, Gaga is ,I submit, a unknown quantity. She might be able to pull it off, she might not. But it will demand a level of acting we have not seen from her before. As for her winning a Golden Globe, the Golden Globes are a bad and notorious joke. People win on name recoznition alone,and a lot of people in the industry swear it is possible for a studio to "Buy" a Globe by giving the best and most lavish parties before the Globe award. I like Gaga fine as a singer,and she has a much better singing voice then I would have given her credit for a few years ago,but I just don't know about her as a serious actress.

Is everything a freaking Comic Book Franchise to some people? I am ,as you might have picked up, not big on religion, but even I think that talking about the Bible in terms of a "Extended Universe" is just plain silly.

So Christianity is not a religion.........LOL. And funny, almost everybody else gets that A Handmaiden's Tale is about a Fundementalist From of CHristinity taking power in America.

Not bad for a 35 Million dollar investment.......... Wonder Woman will make more at the box office, but I would not be surprised if in net (aka real) profit It does not end up rating higher then Wondy because It only cost a fraction of what WW cost.....

I think that is true of most really good Horror films,and why although I like Horror as a genre, I don't like the slasher film sub genre. No characters you can care about. Irony is that in the original "Halloween", John Carpenter is careful to make the main female character sympathetic.You care about her. And she fights back .

I suspect "KIngsmen" will be another film that will make some money, but not enough to guarantee a sequel. A third film will probably be up in the air.

The Exorcist does not hold up all that well today, but in 1973 it broke a lot of screen taboos. Created a major controversy because how over the top the gore and gruesomeness was;nothing like it had been seen in a mainstream major studio film before. It broke a lot of barriers for horror movies. it is one of those films that has lost a lot of it punch today, but is still one of the most important films ever made in the horror genre. And certainly no Horror film before the Exorcist was a massive box office blockbuster the way the Exorcist was. Yeah, it is pretty tame by today's standards but in 1973 it was pretty shocking.

I have watched a couple of Kirk Cameron's films, and they are pure crap. I hate to tell you this, but a great many people don't buy into religion, and a lot of those who do are not Christians. And the idea of a "Christian America" terrifies me. See "The Handmaiden's Tale" for details.

There is an old joke in Hollywood that it takes a Jew to make a good movie about Christianity..."Quo Vadis"(1951) was directed by Mervyn Le Roy and the 1959 Ben Hur by William Wyler...both were Jewish. So was Fred Zinneman ..who directed "A Man For All Seasons" and "The Nun's Story". The 2016 Ben Hur seems to have originated at the studio, with a couple of Chistian producers brought in in order to "sell" the movie to the faith audience,and they hired a director not known for his religious viewpoint. So I am not sure you can say the 2016 Ben Hur was the product of devout believers...although whoever was responsible for that POS movie should do penance......

I guess Warners decided to just get it over with. But the warners PR department is preparing for the inevitable storm (no joke intended) of criticism for exploiting the recent disasters that is coming there way.