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Mike Flanagan tapped to direct next installment of Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ Exorcist reboot trilogy

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Blumhouse and Universal Pictures are summoning horror maestro Mike Flanagan in order to try and resurrect the fortunes of their ambitious and expensive Exorcist reboot series. Deadline reports that the Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor director is in talks to take the clerical collar from The Exorcist: Believer‘s David Gordon Green, who […]

Speak No Evil: James McAvoy stars in unsettling first trailer for horror remake

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Universal and Blumhouse have dropped the unsettling first trailer for their James Watkins (Eden Lake) directed horror film Speak No Evil, which sees Split‘s James McAvoy once again tapping into his darker side to terrorise an unsuspecting family.  Based on the screenplay of 2020’s Danish psychological horror thriller Gæsterne by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup, […]

Lionsgate and Blumhouse teaming to reimagine The Blair Witch Project

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Great news for fans of rock piles and snot-nosed scares, because Lionsgate and Blumhouse have teamed up to take us back into the Black Hills of Burkittsville for a reimagining of 1999 horror-classic The Blair Witch Project.  The project was announced today at CinemaCon by Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, and Jason […]

Jason Blum wants to produce the long-awaited thirteenth Friday the 13th

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As Jason Voorhees superfans will know, it’s been over a decade since we’ve seen a new Friday the 13th. While a cult classic video game and some fan films have kept things afloat, legal battles have kept us from getting the anticipated thirteenth entry. With A24 developing a prequel, another production company wants in on […]

Wolf Man reimagining loses Ryan Gosling, gains Christopher Abbott

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Blumhouse and Universal are gearing up for a new take on The Wolf Man story, and director Leigh Whannell is reworking his casting. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that actor Ryan Gosling will step away from the project, though he’ll keep an executive producer credit. Christopher Abbott, one of the rising stars on the […]

Five Night’s at Freddy’s becomes Blumhouse’s highest grossing movie

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Five Nights at Freddy’s is a massive hit for Blumhouse—actually, the studio’s biggest film of all time now. The horror video game adaptation has grossed $136 million at the domestic box office, with an additional  $160 million from overseas markets. That puts the film at $295 million after 31 days of release. The box office haul […]

The Black Phone will ring again as sequel set for 2025

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have announced that The Black Phone will ring again as a sequel to the 2021 hit horror movie is set to arrive in cinemas in June 2025. Based on a short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone was directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange) from a script by his […]

Jason Blum says Spawn reboot will “bring the Blumhouse edge” to superhero movies

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The Spawn reboot coming from Blumhouse has been years in development with various factors slowing it down, the most current one being the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that have impacted the film industry for most of the year. Blumhouse founder Jason Blum gave a bit of an update to the film, which will star Jamie Foxx as […]

“They just want to play” in latest Five Nights At Freddy’s teaser

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Blumhouse Productions will be hoping to dominate this year’s Halloween with their Exorcist sequel and the big-screen adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s 2014 survival videogame Five Nights At Freddy’s, for which Universal Pictures has just released a creepy new teaser.  Directed by Emma Tammi, with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop assisting Blumhouse Productions in bringing the game’s […]