As tempting as it is to again dip my toe into politics (yesterday, IMHO, was a good slap against Trumpism… I hope the energy carries over for more than this election), I’ll instead focus on something that seemed a given.

Over at i09 comes this article by Charles Pulliam-Moore which states:

Universal’s Shared Monster Universe Has Been Put On Hold

As I said above, this was an announcement I expected given the first film in this series, the Tom Cruise starring The Mummy, had a relatively weak box office take.

That movie, which I will note I have yet to see, received middling at best reviews and, even more importantly, audiences weren’t thrilled enough to make it a bigger blockbuster. Had the movie received superb reviews yet still failed to make the type of money Universal wanted, they likely would have put the brakes on anyway.

Perhaps Universal put the cart before the horse by announcing a “universe” of films before the first one proved successful, but had The Mummy been a bigger hit, even if it had the same reviews/quality, there’s no doubt the studio would proceed with their next monster universe movie.

Ah well!