'Beast' star's surprising news

Bill Condon is ready to take on a new monster of a project. After helping Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast" spin box-office gold, the 61-year-old director has been tapped to breathe new life into "Bride of Frankenstein." Universal Pictures announced on Monday that Condon's remake will hit theaters in February 2019, making it the second film in its newly coined "Dark Universe" series. Universal has long planned to draw on its own library of classic monster characters for a run of films. First up in the Dark Universe series is this summer's "The Mummy" reboot, starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella and Russell Crowe, which debuts in theaters on June 9.