Filmmaker Paul Feig is eager to get his monster movie Dark Army off the ground, but it sounds like Universal Pictures is still figuring out how it wants to approach its library of monster titles. One may recall that, a few years ago, Universal was developing an interconnected universe approach to the Universal Monsters. The Tom Cruise-fronted The Mummy was to be the first film to kick off this MCU-style franchise, but when The Mummy crashed and burned critically and commercially, Universal pulled the plug on the “Dark Universe.” The studio subsequently changed tracks, eschewing an interconnected universe …
This has not been what you'd call a terrible weekend for Leigh Whannell. Shortly after the filmmaker's The Invisible Man nabbed a $29 million opening weekend on a $7 million budget, Whannell signed an overall deal with Blumhouse for film and television. The two-year first-look deal will reportedly cover projects Whannell will write, direct, and/or produce. Here's what Whannell had to say in a statement: [caption id="attachment_866316" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Universal[/caption] “Ten years ago, I walked into Jason Blum’s office thinking that I was having a general meeting …