Tuesday, June 23, 2026

With “Oppenheimer” Booming, Universal Goes Belly Up with $750K Previews for Dracula On the Water Flop “Demeter”

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This will be the last voyage of the Demeter, whatever the heck that is.

Last night Universal unleashed “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” and it sank to the bottom of the ocean.

Previews brought in $750,000. Total budget is announced as $45 million, which means $60 million probably. No stars, no idea what it’s about, and terrible reviews. Rotten Tomatoes: 36%.

Universal is booming right now with “Oppeheimer,” closing in on $250 million, raves, and awards coming. So they can take on the chin. But this sounds pretty bad.

The movie is about Dracula at sea, chomping on people from Transylvania to London. I guess the ship is called the Demeter. It’s the worst title in movie history.

At least there will be no sequels.

Vampires — at least Dracula– are suddenly out of fashion. Who’d a-thunk it?

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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