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Chris Columbus and Blumhouse set to make Five Nights at Freddy’s movie

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There’s good news today for fans of pant-wettingly scary video games as Blumhouse has announced it’s set to make an adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s, with director Chris Columbus in the chair. The director, who made Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter movies, has signed up to helm the adaptation of the […]

Blumhouse: Leading the Way with Sustainable Genre Film Production

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Tom Jolliffe looks at Blumhouse Productions and the success and sustainability of its business model… When it comes to box office discussion, it seems to revolve around the success or failure of the huge tentpole films. Was Birds of Prey a flop? Did The Rise of Skywalker flop? Can Avengers: Endgame be matched again in […]

A Post-Pandemic Film Industry

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Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to how the landscape of film may change in the next few years… The entire film world, top to bottom, across most of the world has hit pause as we deal with more pressing life affecting matters. Studios have delayed releases and productions. We’ve seen a number of films switch from […]

Blumhouse teams with James Wan’s Atomic Monster for total horror genre domination

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Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster are coming together to form the dominant force in horror films. For those who don’t know, over the last fifteen years, Blumhouse Productions titles have generated about $5 billion in ticket sales; recent successes include The Black Phone, the latest Halloween trilogy, and The Invisible Man. Wan’s […]

Now Is The Time for Indie Films To Strike

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Tom Jolliffe looks at a pre-Covid rise in popularity for independent films, and a big upcoming push for content going forward… Slowly but surely, changes were afoot this time last year. It had been a progressive rise for a few years. Cinema was still monopolised by the mega budget blockbusters. In particular, Disney and every […]

Blumhouse’s real time thriller Soft & Quiet gets a trailer and images

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Momentum Pictures and Blumhouse has released a trailer and images for writer-director Beth de Araújo’s upcoming thriller Soft & Quiet. Paying out in real time, the film follows elementary school teacher Emily as she hosts an inaugural meeting for a group of like-minded women which leads to a volatile chain of events. Watch the trailer […]

Friendship evolves in trailer for Blumhouse horror M3GAN

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse has released a new poster and trailer for M3GAN, the upcoming horror from director Gerard Johstone and producers Jason Blum and James Wan. The film stars Get Out’s Allison Williams as Gemma, a roboticist working for a toy company who has designed a life-like doll which can be programmed to be […]

Blumhouse’s Spawn movie gains three new writers, keeps Jamie Foxx as star

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The long-planned Spawn reboot has landed a trio of new scribes to help try and bring it to life. In a series of tweets from Blumhouse head Jason Blum, we’ve learned that the Spawn film is bringing abroad three new writers in hopes of finally getting Todd McFarlane’s reboot off the ground. It has also […]

Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s movie finds its director

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An adaptation of popular videogame Five Nights At Freddy’s has been in development longer than it used to take to load a Commodore64 game via cassette (one for the kids there), but it has finally found its director in Emma Tammi. Once a project for both Home Alone‘s Chris Columbus and Monster House‘s Gil Kenan, […]