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Universal is in the works on a new movie universe based around the works of Robert Ludlum and is teaming up with Dwayne Johnson to bring it to fruition starting with The Janson Directive.

Follows a former clandestine operative, now the best private security consultant in the world, who is framed for a horrendous crime and must join forces with the protégée sent to kill him in order to survive.

Tom Hooper has been tapped to take on the big screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical Cats. The Danish Girl director is set to helm the movie musical for Universal and Working Title.

Logline kept under wraps, but it will be based on the successful Broadway musical, which follows a group of cats called “Jellicles” who decide will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to live a new life.

Russell Crowe is in talks to join Tom Cruise in Universal’s reboot of The Mummy, the first installment of what is expected to be a new monster movie franchise.

Centers on an identical twin, Alvina Knightly, who goes to great lengths to steal her sister’s perfect life, which leads to sex, lies, and even murder.

The Jurassic World sequel has officially handed the reins to Juan Antonio Bayona. Its predecessor premiered last year and raked in over $1.67 billion worldwide.

Courtney B. Vance is set to get wrapped up in Universal Pictures’s reboot of The Mummy. Vance will join Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, and Jake Johnson for the epic action adventure.

An escaped convict teams up with an unlikely partner to stop his girlfriend from getting married.

Cumberbatch will voice the titular character in How The Grinch Stole Christmas, a new animated feature based on the classic Dr. Seuss story from Universal and animation house Illumination Entertainment.

UPDATE (4.7.16): Paramount has come out on top in the fight for T.J. English’s The Corporation with a stunning seven figure offer. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson will produce through their Appian Way banner, with Benicio Del Toro set to star.

Two hitmen kill an unresisting ex-prize fighter, and when an investigator pursues the case, he uncovers a tale of betrayal, crime and a series of events that led to his murder.

With Charlize Theron on board for Fast 8, the title might as well be Fast and the Furiosa. The Mad Max: Fury Road star has officially signed on to join Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham in the next installment of the wildly successful Universal franchise.

The unique, untold American gangster story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (“El Padrino”), the leader of the “The Corporation” – also known as “The Godfather.”

UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.

Details are being kept under wraps, but story is a musical comedy focused on dance.

Jake Johnson is set to star in the untitled reboot of The Mummy. The movie is setting up Universal’s plan to build a interconnected franchise of classic monster movies.

Details being kept under wraps, but story is a musical comedy focused on dance.

A massive bidding war is underway right now as some of Hollywood’s biggest players compete for the rights to Lost City of Z author David Grann’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon. A-listers are attached and studios are swarming as the year’s biggest bidding war gets underway!

Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.

The Universal astronaut comedy The Something starring the trio of funnymen Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis, and Bill Hader will be released on May 26, 2017, during Memorial Day weekend.

Details kept under wraps, but based on the classic 1976 comedy.

After a summer of teasing fans via social media, comedy trio The Lonely Island have finally announced the film they spend their summer vacation putting together: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Follows a rapper whose album bombs and leaves him with little career choice other than to reform his old boy band.

Steven S. DeKnight has won the job to direct Pacific Rim 2, the sequel to the 2013 hit action film featuring robots battling monster-aliens. The first film was helmed by Guillermo del Toro with a script by Travis Beacham.

The producer behind Goosebumps and The Golden Compass is developing the best-selling YA series as part of Silvertongue’s first look deal with Universal.

Four young heroes have each summoned a beast of legend – a spirit animal – and together they embark on a quest to find legendary talismans before they fall into enemy hands.

A ghost story similar to Henry James’ Turn of the Screw with a female lead.

The Oscar-nominated producer behind The Social Network and Syfy’s Childhood’s End has joined the long-in-development feature reboot of the original 1970s series. De Luca will team with producers Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark to jumpstart the project for Universal.

Reboot of the 1933 film based on H.G. Wells novel.