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Browsing: Blumhouse Productions
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RUN SWEETHEART RUN (SPEC)
A woman escapes a blind date and is chased through Los Angeles.
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Trailer for “The First Purge” Shows Where It All Began (Video)
The fourth installment of the violent series is a prequel to the previous three movies with Universal releasing it on the 4th of July.
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YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (SPEC)
A screenwriter begins to have a mental breakdown while attempting to write a sequel to his hit movie at a secluded house in the German mountains.
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YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (Film Rights)
Follows a screenwriter who takes his wife and daughter to a remote house in the Alps so he can finish writing a sequel to his big hit movie before unexplained occurrences start driving the writer mad.
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INVASION (SPEC)
The storyline is under wraps but is said to be a home invasion thriller inside an alien invasion.
7 - IN DEVELOPMENT (DB)
SPAWN REBOOT (SALES)
The storyline is under wraps but will be based on the 1992 comic of the same name.
7 - IN DEVELOPMENT (DB)
THE PURGE 4 (SALES)
A prequel that will focus on the events that led up to the very first Purge.
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“Halloween” Reboot Takes Shape With Danny McBride, David Gordon Green
Kenny Powers gives you permission to freak out about this news!
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“Sleight” Director JD Dillard Casts “The Flash” Star Kiersey Clemons in Horror Movie “Sweetheart”
JD Dillard’s Sleight was one of the best films I saw at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, so it comes as no surprise that Blumhouse is staying in business with the director on his follow-up film Sweetheart, which will star Kiersey Clemons (Dope).
7 - IN DEVELOPMENT (DB)
SNAPSHOT 1988 (SALES)
In 1988, a teenage boy takes care of his elderly former housekeeper who he thinks suffers from dementia, but is unaware that her memories are being stolen by a camera belonging to an evil figure known as The Phoenician.
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MARY (SPEC)
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat
7 - IN DEVELOPMENT (DB)
CURSE (SALES)
Centers on a widowed father who is desperate and financially broken from trying to save his child from a rare illness.
7 - IN DEVELOPMENT (DB)
DEVIL’S NIGHT (TRETTA) (SALES)
A group of young adults dress up as devils on the night before Halloween to terrorize their victims for the sins they committed.
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{Exclusive} UPDATE: SOLD! Imperative Entertainment Beats Out JJ Abrams For “Killers Of The Flower Moon” With $5 Million Bid
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
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{Exclusive} Bidding War Alert – Brad Pitt, George Clooney & Several Others Fighting Over Hot Property “Killers Of The Flower Moon”
A massive bidding war is underway right now as some of Hollywood’s biggest players compete for the rights to Lost City of Z author David Grann’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon. A-listers are attached and studios are swarming as the year’s biggest bidding war gets underway!
Film Rights Tracker (SM-DB)
Killers Of The Flower Moon (Film Rights)
Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.
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DEVIL’S NIGHT (SPEC)
Logline: A group of young adults dress up as devils on the night before Halloween to terrorize their victims for the sins they committed.
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HEXEN (SPEC)
Logline: When a failed photographer drags his depressed wife and step-daughter to the country for family support, what they discover are dark cult roots, an isolated hippie heaven, and the terrifying realization that they may not be free to leave alive.
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Amy Adams To Star In “Sharp Objects” From “Gone Girl” Author Gillian Flynn
Five time Academy Award-nominee Amy Adams has joined Sharp Objects, a drama series from Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. Entertainment One has also signed on to act as the studio and shop the series.
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Keith Stanfield Jumps Into Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”
Keith Stanfield has joined horror film Get Out from Blumhouse Productions. Jordan Peele of Key and Peele wrote and is directing the picture.
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Kevin Bacon To Reprise Role In “Tremors” TV Series
Kevin Bacon is attached to star in the Tremors television series being developed by Universal Cable Productions and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions. Bacon, who will also executive produce, will reprise his role from the 1990 cult classic.
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{Exclusive} Alexandre Aja Teams With Jason Blum & Ian Bryce For Horror Pic “Sleepwalker”
Rising horror director Alexandre Aja is teaming up with the biggest name in indie horror, Jason Blum, for Sleepwalker. Blum is producing for his Blumhouse Productions label, while Ian Bryce produces via his own shingle. Plot details are being kept hush, though sources let on that the project involves a sleep lab study.
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Lee Pace And Carrie Coon To Lead New Blumhouse Indie “The Keeping Hours”
Lee Pace and Carrie Coon have been tapped to star in the latest micro-budget genre film from Blumhouse Productions. Titled The Keeping Hours, the pic will be a departure from the shingle’s vast library of genre titles, as it’s the company’s first love story.