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Based on an original idea by Wan, Smart House follows a family in the witness protection program who are placed in the custody of a state of the art, autonomous ‘smart house.’ When a group of assassins locates the family, the house goes into lethal defense mode to protect them.

Logline kept under wraps, but the movie is based on a character from The Conjuring 2.

Lawrance made the 2015 LPPC Quarter-Finals with his crime thriller pilot The Lost Boys, which is a serial killer mystery based on the real life unsolved hit-and-run death of Lawrance’s best friend in high school.

Coming into the public eye with the hit indie thriller “Saw” in 2004, Wan was able to turn a small budget film into a cultural phenomenon.

Written by Graham McNamee, “Acceleration” tells the story of Duncan, a teenager forced into community service cataloguing lost and found items for the city’s Transit Authority. Amongst the mess, he finds a serial killer’s journal, detailing the madman’s stalking of subway passengers. Duncan sets out with his friends to find and stop the killer.

The Furious 7 director is in talks to helm the feature adaptation of the 1980s anime series, which was created by Harmony Gold USA and Japan’s Tatsunoko Productions. The series featured giant Mecha robots in order to fight off three successive alien attacks.

The “Conjuring” and “Furious 7” director is the frontrunner to direct the upcoming DC movie.

Set in an abandoned mining colony on a distant planet, a group of colonists are forced to take up arms against horrifying alien creatures unearthed from deep below the surface, with their only hope lying in a vault rumored to contain advanced alien technology.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Logline: A free-spirited young bee must clear her name when the rest of her hive comes to believe that she has helped a group of hornets steal the Royal Jelly.

Logline: An anthology of short horror films, each set in a sleepy American suburb terrorized by ghouls, aliens, and killers one Halloween night.

The “Saw” director, otherwise known as the current maestro of indie horror, returns to direct the sequel to his 2013 horror hit.

Whannell is set to write and direct the third installment of the horror franchise.

Logline: Centers on how ghost hunter Elise learns about The Further.

Logline: After a man’s wife is murdered and he is left completely paralyzed, he opts for an experimental procedure that implants artificial intelligence in his brainstem, enabling him to function again…and to seek revenge.

Logline: A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the pre-adolescent children into a feral swarm of mindless savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives against the monstrous pupils.

Logline: When a massive spider runs rampant in the streets of Los Angeles an exterminator and a security guard must team up to take it down.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Centers on the events that occur after a drug mule is busted by the police.

Up-and-comers join cast for indie thriller !

“Insidious” director takes on another supernatural-thriller.

Logline: The story follows a detective and psychologist as they listen to John Ascot’s testimony of how he massacred five college students.

Logline: A young family makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose son has become a conduit for the supernatural, while his consciousness is held hostage in the dark and insidious realm known as The Further.