{"id":40641,"date":"2017-06-09T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40641"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:05:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:05:26","slug":"new-releases-june-9-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/09\/new-releases-june-9-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: June 9, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In this week’s New Releases, The Mummy <\/strong>is dead on arrival, It Comes At Night <\/strong>comes on strong, and Megan<\/strong> Leavey<\/strong> provides a\u00a0look at a different kind of horror. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"1. The Mummy (Universal, 4,034 Theaters, 110 Minutes, Rated PG-13 for violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: 18% Fresh <\/a>[147 Reviews]): <\/strong> You can’t blame Universal for wanting to make a shared universe out of their monster properties.\u00a0People love shared universes after all\u00a0and the characters are all kinda related anyway. It’s just that the cosmos doesn’t seem to want to them to have one<\/p>\n

They had a false start a few years ago with Dracula Untold<\/strong>, which bombed. Now this one faces a stronger Wonder Woman<\/strong> film than anyone anticipated and horrible reviews. You can’t blame Universal for the first thing–even Warners didn’t know how big a hit WW would be. But not bringing a good script? You can\u00a0blame them\u00a0for that.<\/p>\n

Let this be a lesson for anyone doing a shared universe. You have to work at it. There’s too many options out there for you just to rely on the novelty of the concept.<\/p>\n