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UNIVERSAL PICTURES upcoming crop of films

UNIVERSAL PICTURES has just recently put up little 'advance' lookies at there 1999 slate of films. And given the slow state of affairs concerning news right now, I decided to take a gander and see if I could comment on any of it here. First up, let's look at MYSTERY MEN. Well, it's the one I'm most curious about. Why? Well, I just love DARK HORSE COMICS and root for each and every single one of their properties to be converted to film. Especially HELLBOY, which I feel is the cat's meow of cool. Anyway, they don't have any news about HELLBOY, but they did have this pic from MYSTERY MEN:

Yeah, I know, taint the greatest pic in the world, but hey God forbid you try to make a great impression with your first image released to the public... right? That said... well gosh, any movie that has a cast that includes: Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H.Macy, Paul Reubens, Claire Forlani , Wes Studi, Janeane Garofalo, Geoffrey Rush, Lena Olin, Tom Waits, Greg Kinnear and Eddie Izzard. Well, that's just too dang cool.

The above image is Kevin Costner in FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, the third in the line of Kevin Costner baseball movies, this one directed by Sam "I Am Cool" Raimi (who by the way told a fella just a couple of days ago that he was working on the script for the FOURTH EVIL DEAD film). I've heard the script is incredible, but as of yet, I have been unable to procure it... All in good time.

Well, here's an official look at Jim Carrey in MAN ON THE MOON, and he looks... well, the way he's supposed to look. For lots of ya, this has been the movie to look forward to. We've been covering this throughout the duration, and everything we have heard has been... well... what we have been wanting to hear... This is highly anticipated.

DUDLEY DORIGHT... ugh... Word has it, it doesn't stink, but ewwwww God I have no interest in this movie. And after the work Brendan did in GODS & MONSTERS and the upcoming THE MUMMY... well it's just... ugh... Ya know it's just painful. It's not like this is an UNDERDOG movie or BLUE FALCON!!!! Or or or or SPAAAAAAAACE GHOOOOOOOST!!!! Or what about THE HERCULOIDS or JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS or HONG KONG PHOOEY or GRAPE APE or STARBLAZERS!!!!

THE MUMMY. After MORIARTY's report on seeing a rough rough of the movie and loving it. Well... I'm dying to see more on this one. There is going to be soooo much in this movie, they should just knock our asses off with a no-holds barred trailer that just scrapes our skin off. Oh wait... this is UNIVERSAL marketing... sigh... oh well. Maybe they'll contact whoever cuts NEW LINE's trailers and get them to do it for em.

The other stuff just doesn't interest me a whole terrible lot. Though Bowfinger's Big THing has me interested, but solely because FRANK OZ is directing and... well I like Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy, but... well, I'm gonna hang loose and wait and see. Oh, and RIDE WITH THE DEVIL is gonna rock, because everything ANG LEE does is gold. To read more on all of this, and to see logos and all of that, go check out what Universal has done here at UniversalPictures.Com

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