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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 10/22/2008

Is Universal pulling Focus?

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Anne Thompson has a really good story in today's Variety breaking the news that Universal is nearing... a deal to sell its Rogue Pictures label to Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media. The sale, Thompson reports, would give Kavanaugh Rogue's 30-title library... (more) Is Universal pulling Focus?

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variety.com - 10/21/2008

Universal boards 'Transformers' ride - Entertainment News, Los Angeles, Media

— variety.com — New attraction to hit theme parks in 2011 The Transformers are taking shape at Universal's theme parks.... Universal Parks & Resorts has paired up with Hasbro and DreamWorks Pictures to produce a “Transformers” attraction at its parks in Hollywood and ... (more) Universal boards 'Transformers' ride - Entertainment ...

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youtube.com - 10/17/2008

Beautiful Monsters (video)

— youtube.com — A short montage paying tribute to my three favorite Universal Horror performers, Lugosi, Karloff and Lanchester.... (more) Beautiful Monsters (video)

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Dracula (1931)
Coosa Creek Cinema — ... Now, as an added treat, here’s a montage from Jonathan Lapper at Cinema Styles that uses footage from the many of the Universal monster movies, including Dracula. ...

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) 08, 10/20.
GreenCine Daily — ... honoring a very special face: his wife "says I ignore household matters but am vitally interested in what Boris Karloff might have said on some street corner back in August 1933, to which I reply, Well, what did he say?" Speaking of whom. Observer film critic Philip French has chosen his five "scariest films" and at the top of the list is Frankenstein, whose director, James Whale, comes in for special praise from Jonathan Lapper, too: "Now that man could direct." Continued reading Scary Monsters ...

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Self-Styled Siren — ... Siren ran into Glenn Kenny on the street in Brooklyn. Glenn waved a DVD at her and asked if she was reading David Cairns. Oh yes Glenn, I'm addicted too, and David is expanding my must-see list exponentially as well. Here he is on the two U.S. movies made by the peerless Jean Gabin, Moontide (just out on DVD) and the Julien Duvivier-directed The Impostor. Jonathan Lapper is deep into his Kill Fest. The Siren is enjoying it all, but this Universal monster montage will be hard to top. Do you ever just mosey over to a ...