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EXCLUSIVE: Leigh Whannell's 2018 Blumhouse sci-fi thriller feature Upgrade is getting a TV series followup. The series is co-created and executive produced by Whannell and Tim Walsh (Treadstone) who serves as showrunner. Whannell, coming off writing and directing Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man, is set to direct…

EXCLUSIVE: Crypt TV, the horror brand co-founded by Jack Davis and Eli Roth and backed by Blumhouse, has unveiled its first Indian production in the form of Hindi horror remake Chhori. Last year, Crypt TV partnered with Mumbai-based outfit Abundantia Entertainment, run by former Viacom18 Motion Pictures exec Vikram…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse and Automatik’s supernatural movie Run Sweetheart Run, which made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is heading to Amazon Studios and Prime Video, Deadline has learned. The streamer picked up the movie, written and directed by Shana Feste and originally scheduled to have a…

Mexican filmmaker Issa López is set to adapt and direct Our Lady of Tears for Blumhouse based on the Daniel Hernandez Epic magazine article "The Haunting of Girlstown” which was published on Vox. Our Lady of Tears will be produced by Blumhouse in association with Epic Media. The article focuses on a mass hysteria…

EXCLUSIVE: Two time Golden Globe winning actress and filmmaker Jamie Lee Curtis and her Comet Pictures label have signed a three-year, first look deal with Blumhouse in both the film and TV arena, Deadline has learned. Already, Comet and Blumhouse have a feature horror project underway, Mother Nature, which is…

Universal-Blumhouse’s The Forever Purge, which was dated for July 10 prior to Warner Bros.’ The Tenet, is now unset. Solstice Studios’ Russell Crowe road rage movie Unhinged on July 1 remains the first wide release back for those cinemas reopening. We hear there is no determination yet as to whether Forever Purge goes…

Universal has set aside a number of release dates for event pics the studio plans to program in 2022. Disney and Warner Bros. do this all the time, and its a way of letting the competition know that there’s a title coming down the road. First date is MLK weekend, Jan 14 against 20th Century Studios’ Nimona and Warner…

Blumhouse has made a small round of layoffs, in total eight roles across film and TV including executive assistants and mid-level executives. Those working in post production remain employed and some senior executives have taken pay cuts in the current COVID-19 climate which has shut down physical production and movie…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

If predicting box office openings wasn’t worse enough for the industry, the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. has studios and exhibition at the edge of their seats as concerns swell about how bad the impact might be. This weekend’s wide entries — Sony’s Vin Diesel movie Bloodshot,  Lionsgate-Kingdom Story’s faith-based…

President Donald Trump condemned it sight unseen and Universal canceled its September release due to mass shootings in the news and perhaps some political heat. But thankfully the studio now is releasing The Hunt, a movie with origins going all the way back to The Most Dangerous Game in the 1920s (as does another of…

5th Update Sunday AM Final w/chart: Moviegoers didn’t have a problem finding Universal-Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man on Saturday, with the Leigh Whannell movie racking up $11.1M, a 12% surge over Friday’s $9.9M for a weekend that the studio is calling at $29M (some rival estimates have it in the low $28M range). Even…