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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…

Longtime Blumhouse writer/director Leigh Whannell has signed an overall deal with Blumhouse for film and television. Over the course of 10 years, Whannell and Blumhouse have collaborated on seven projects, including The Invisible Man, in theaters today. The two-year, first-look deal will cover projects…

It’s not as if Universal and Blumhouse anticipated the opening of its gaslight thriller The Invisible Man to coincide with the guilty verdict handed down this week to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in his sexual misconduct trial. But the Leigh Whannell directed and written feature arrives in cinemas at a moment when the…

Universal has been trying for years to successfully reboot the horror classics of the 1930s that so defined the studio then, movies like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, etc. In the case of the latter, the 2017 attempt with Tom Cruise was roundly panned, and a hoped-for new incarnation of The Bride of Fra…

Following a barrage of criticism eight months ago from right-wing commentators and President Donald Trump, who called the movie one that will “inflame and cause chaos,” Universal-Blumhouse’s The Hunt is muscling its way back on to the release calendar with a March 13 date. It’s being billed in a new ad campaign as…

EXCLUSIVE: Count Hunger Games and True Detective actress Leven Rambin in for Blumhouse/Platinum Dunes/Universal’s untitled Purge 5 which is being directed by Everado Gout. Universal is releasing the next chapter on July 10; the franchise having clocked well over $456M worldwide. The last movie, 2018’s The First Purge…

EXCLUSIVE: Shock Waves, the popular Blumhouse horror podcast that has interviewed guests including Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Elijah Wood and Udo Kier, is being absorbed into horror brand Fangoria's network of podcasts. First launched back in 2016, Shock Waves is hosted by filmmaker Rebekah McKendry, Fangoria's Rob…

Big Short Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Charles Randolph is adapting Katrina's Brooker's upcoming W.W. Norton book about controversial real estate corp WeWork for both Blumhouse and Universal. Book focuses on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, and Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Ruck (Succession), Katie Finneran (Why Women Kill), Celeste O'Connor (Selah And The Spades) and Misha Osherovich (NOS4A2) are joining Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton in Blumhouse’s Chris Landon-helmed thriller. The yet-to-be-titled body-swapping film, which was written by Landon and Michael Kennedy, is…

EXCLUSIVE: The True Detective Golden Globe nominated actress is boarding Blumhouse-Sony-Red Wagon’s reboot of the 1996 teen witchcraft feature The Craft.  Michelle Monaghan joins the growing Craft cast of David Duchovny, Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, Nicholas Galitzine and Julian Grey all…