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Look, Dr. Jekyll Has the Creature’s Fin in a Jar!

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In Universal Pictures’ The Mummy, in theaters June 9th, Russell Crowe plays Dr. Henry Jekyll, the owner of the Prodigium. As we’ve speculated in several posts, Crowe is the heart of the new Universal monsters universe as all of the film’s will revolve around his laboratory, with Tom Cruise being the Van Helsing-esque character that jumps from films to film battling all of the creatures. Several of The Mummy trailers and television spots have revealed this with a series of shots displaying the Prodigium, with one of the rooms holding years of research…jars filled with monster parts and other random historical artifacts. We’ve already noted that you can see a vampire’s skull (is it Dracula’s?), but now we’ve discovered a clear shot of the Creature’s fin from The Creature From the Black Lagoon! What other specimens are hiding in that massive room? Well, you can now tour the Prodigium on this VR website, which is hidden in the back of a real museum. Here’s a look at the fin (thanks to @TallyDude).

Speaking of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Uni has had their eyes on Scarlett Johansson for the remake since 2015.

A remake technically been on the slate since 1982, add the site, with original director Jack Arnold in talks to return. The project was ultimately scrapped, with John Carpenter, Gary Ross and Breck Eisner and Guillermo Del Toro each developing separate versions of the project over the next two decades.

The last we heard was that Dave Kajganich, who wrote the Daniel Craig-Nicole Kidman thriller The Invasion several years ago, was penning the screenplay. Bruce Eisner was once attached to direct the redo of the 1954 film that centered on a prehistoric water-breathing humanoid monster that lived in a remote Amazonian river and a group of scientists that want to study him.

I think the future of the monster universe hangs in the balance of how well The Mummy does on June 9th. A massive flop could kill this ambitious new take on the horror franchise before it even dives in.

The Mummy (2017) Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe

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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge

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Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.

Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.

The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”

Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.

Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”

Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.

Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.

A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”

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