Showing posts with label Universal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Universal. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2020

Dr. Dolittle (2020)

Fresh off of retiring his Iron-Man persona in Avengers: Endgame (2019), Robert Downey, Jr. has teamed up with Universal Pictures to re-imagine the classic British physician who can literally talk with animals. Although not free of flaws, this particular cinematic adaptation of the character of Dr. Dolittle is the most inspired and entertaining yet.

Friday, February 9, 2018

The Weirdo Marketing of the Movie DUNE (1984)

An excellent analysis of one of the most bizarre film-marketing campaigns of all time. Potentially, the MOST bizarre. Dino De Laurentis and MCA/Universal handed the keys to this blockbuster to the artistic powerhouse director David Lynch and he adapted Frank Herbert's best-selling novel into the gorgeous and original DUNE (1984). Watch Den of Geek's Chris Cummins explore the strange marketing disaster with fresh eyes in the video clip below.