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Single Player Challenges comes to Friday the 13th: The Game this Thursday

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Gun Media has announced that the hotly-anticipated Single Player Challenges mode will be coming to Friday the 13th: The Game this Thursday, allowing players to spread some terror around Camp Crystal Lake as the iconic Jason Voorhees. Check out the latest Single Player Challenges trailer here… SEE ALSO: Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller explains repeated Friday […]

Die Hard Rebooted: 10 Other Franchise Reboots That Failed to Launch

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Luke Owen looks at the failed franchise reboots… Rebooting a franchise isn’t just an idea anymore, it’s a formula. If you have a pre-existing franchise with a pre-existing audience, reboot it. And then if that doesn’t work, just reboot it again. We live in a world where we have three different attempts at creating a sustaining […]

Brad Fuller talks Friday the 13th, clears up rumours

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It’s Friday the 13th, and so it’s entirely appropriate that Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller has taken a moment to discuss his plans for the next instalment of the iconic slasher series. The Friday the 13th sequel has certainly had a rocky development since first being announced in 2009, including several delays, the latest of which […]

Paramount shuts down Friday the 13th, pushes back World War Z sequel

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Any Jason Voorhees fans excited about the prospect of a return to Camp Crystal Lake will be disappointed to hear that Paramount Pictures has pulled the plug on the long-gestating next instalment of the Friday the 13th series, which the studio has been trying in vain to get off the ground for several years. According […]

The Last Witch Hunter director Breck Eisner in talks for next Friday the 13th movie

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It looks like the next instalment of the Friday the 13th franchise has found a new director following the departure of David Bruckner (V/H/S) in December, with Entertainment Weekly revealing that The Crazies and The Last Witch Hunter helmer Breck Eisner is in talks for the oft-delayed project. The new chapter in the long-running slasher series is […]

Friday the 13th producers reveal why the found footage version didn’t happen, but the new reboot will shoot next year

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Back when Paramount and Warner Bros. reached a deal where the rights to Friday the 13th would go back to their 80s home (in a deal so Warners could get a slice of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar), it was heavily rumoured that this new reboot would be a found footage movie. While that has since been […]

Friday the 13th pushed back (again) to 2016

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The return to the big screen of Jason Voorhees has been a tough one so far. Since returning to Paramount last year in a deal between Warner Bros. over distribution rights to Interstellar, Friday the 13th has moved dates a few times. It was originally set for the first quarter of 2015, before being pushed back to […]

New Friday the 13th to feature the return of Pamela Voorhees; will NOT be PG-13

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Much has been said (and not said) about the new Friday the 13th, which will be brought to us by Platinum Dunes and Paramount Pictures, the spiritual home of Friday the 13th. In the past we’ve heard that it would be 3D, found footage and – more surprisingly, Jason Voorhees-less! In the same interview where […]

Hannibal writer Nick Antosca to pen new Friday the 13th film

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According to THR, TV writer Nick Antosca – known for his work on shows like Hannibal and Believe – will pen Paramount’s new Friday the 13th film. The latest version of the horror classic will be directed by V/H/S helmer David Bruckner and produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. The movie is expected to employ Bruckner’s trademark found-footage style, and […]