Blumhouse, the maker of horror hits like “Insidious” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” has acquired the rights to all future “Saw” films, shows and other properties featuring the murderous, torture-loving Jigsaw. Lionsgate, which has released all 10 films in the series, will continue to be a partner in the property. It will also be retaining its existing 50% ownership stake in and distribution of future installments.
Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise) is writing and directing a new take on ‘The Mummy’, it has been announced today. Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, along with Cronin’s company ‘Doppelgängers’, are producing.The project was previously only known as a Cronin mystery movie that had been announced earlier this year and is now set for an April 17, 2026 release.
“This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before,”
he said in a statement to THR.
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“I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening,”
Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are co-financing the film. Producing are James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. Executive producing are Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher. Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing the project for Atomic Monster.
Director David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer was originally planned to be the first film in a planned trilogy from Blumhouse and Universal, part of a multi million dollar deal to bring the franchise back to life on the big screen with the sequel The Exorcist: Deceiver scheduled for release on April 18, 2025.
However THR reports this afternoon that David Gordon Green will no longer be directing The Exorcist: Deceiver, and that Universal and Blumhouse are actively seeking a new director.
Olivia Marcum is the latest actor to join the cast of the upcoming Exorcist film.
Blumhouse and Morgan Creek are producing the movie for Universal and Peacock with David Gordon Green set to direct all three films.
Continue readingThe final trailer has been released for the latest installment of the Halloween franchise Halloween Ends, will be out on Peacock and In Theaters October 14th. Check out the trailer below:
Halloween Ends, directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan and Chris Bernier is a sequel to 2021’s Halloween Kills and the thirteenth installment of the Halloween film franchise. Returning to score the film is franchise creator John Carpenter (with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies also returning).
The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney reprising their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Kyle Richards, and Omar Dorsey will reprise their roles as Laurie’s granddaughter, Allyson, Deputy Frank Hawkins, Lindsey Wallace, and Sheriff Barker.
Halloween Ends is set to release on October 14, 2022. It was initially set to release on October 15, 2021, before being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Check out our review of Halloween Kills here.
Get your copy of Halloween/Halloween Kills on Amazon UK now.
Halloween Ends will be available to stream on Peacock same day as theatrical release
Check out our interviews with Halloween Alumni below:
Interview with Tony Moran (Halloween 1978)
Interview With Lance Guest (Halloween 2)
Interview with Erik Preston (Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers)
Interview with Jeffrey Landman (Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers)
As previously reported Ellen Burstyn is back as Chris MacNeil for the upcoming remake of The Exorcist, which is being billed as both a new take on the demonic possession classic, as well as the first film in a planned trilogy.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Burstyn reveals why she finally agreed to return to the horror franchise.
The latest installment of the Halloween franchise Halloween Ends, will be released on Peacock the same day it is released in cinemas – October 14th.
Scream queen and horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis made the announcement today in the video below.
They/Them is a 2022 American slasher film written and directed by John Logan in his feature directorial debut, and produced by Blumhouse Productions.
It stars Kevin Bacon, Carrie Preston, Anna Chlumsky, Theo Germaine, Quei Tann, Anna Lore, Monique Kim, Darwin del Fabro, Cooper Koch, and Austin Crute, and follows a group of LGBTQ teens who are targeted by a serial killer while attending a conversion camp.
Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films are set to start production on Insidious 5, the latest installment in the hit horror series.
Today it has been announced that Sinclair Daniel, Peter Dager, and Hiam Abbass will be joining the cast. Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Ty Simpkins will be returning for the fifth installment of the franchise with Wilson set to make his directorial debut.
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