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Something is Killing the Children movie and animated series in development at Blumhouse

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Blumhouse has announced that it has acquired the screen rights to James Tynion and Werther Dell’Edera’s acclaimed comic book phenomenon Something is Killing the Children, with the studio developing both live-action feature film and adult animated series adaptations of the Boom! Studios comic series. Launching in 2019 and going on to sell over 5 million […]

Elisabeth Moss reveals that The Invisible Man sequel is still in the works

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Elisabeth Moss has provided an update on the long-gestating second outing for The Invisible Man.  Released just before the global pandemic hit in 2020, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man was not only one of the best film’s of that year, but it grossed $144 million off a budget of just $7 million. It’s surprising then […]

Blumhouse aims to acquire Saw franchise

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Is Blumhouse ready to play the games of Jigsaw? If reports are correct, Saw is heading to the massive horror company. Reports have Blumhouse in talks to buy the Saw franchise from Twisted Pictures. If this were to happen, James Wan, who directed the first movie, would get an ownership stake in the now-iconic franchise […]

M3GAN goes from murderous doll to all-action A.I. in final trailer for M3GAN 2.0

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With $180 million in the bank there was little surprise that Universal Pictures and Blumhouse would take their murderous meme-making doll out of the cupboard for a sequel, and judging by the final trailer for M3GAN 2.0, she has been given the mother of all upgrades. Produced by James Wan for Atomic Monster and Jason […]

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 gets a new teaser poster from Blumhouse

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During this weekend’s CCXP Mexico convention, Blumhouse Pictures revealed a new poster for director Emma Tammi’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 teasing the upcoming sequel to the hit horror video game adaptation; take a look here… 1987, after a rather unstable life, Jeremy Fitzgerald found work as a security guard at the new Freddy’s Fazbear […]

Movie Review – Wolf Man (2025)

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Wolf Man, 2025. Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, Benedict Hardie, Zac Chandler, Beatriz Romilly, and Milo Cawthorne. SYNOPSIS: A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. While […]

Watch Christopher Abbot’s werewolf transformation in Wolf Man clip

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Universal Pictures has allowed audiences an early peek at the moon by revealing the transformation sequence from writer-director Leigh Whannell’s terrifying reimagining of the Wolf Man. The clip sees Christopher Abbott’s cursed character Blake turning into the titular Universal monster, threating the safety of his wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner), and their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida […]

Peek inside the Monsters Workshop with Wolf Man behind-the-scenes featurette

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With its release now less than two weeks away, Universal Pictures has shared a featurette for Leigh Whannell’s retelling of the classic Universal Monsters horror Wolf Man, which takes us behind the scenes of the new update; watch it below… Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San […]

Go behind-the-scenes of Wolf Man with director Leigh Whannell in new featurette

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Universal Pictures has released a featurette for the upcoming horror Wolf Man which sees director Leigh Whannell discuss putting his own angle on the classic monster tale and paying tribute to his favourite movies of the 1980s; watch it below… Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a […]