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The vampire genre has survived innumerable indignities over the decades — Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter or Dracula 2000, anyone? — so it surely will emerge largely intact after the abuse it must now endure courtesy of Day Shift. The premise isn't half-bad, with a leading-man vampire hunter trying to provide for the…

“Vampire hunting is a business — cuttin’ necks and cashin’ checks.” But the blood money has dried up for Jamie Foxx in Day Shift, Netflix’s film that also stars Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg. Find out why and what happens next in the action-horror-comedy’s gore-happy first trailer above. Seems Bud Jablonski’s day job as…

EXCLUSIVE: Katy O'Brian, Dave Franco, Ed Harris and Jena Malone have joined Kristen Stewart and Anna Baryshnikov in Love Lies Bleeding with A24 and Film4 teaming on the pic. Rose Glass will direct from a script she co-wrote with Weronika Tofilska. The film is described as a romance fueled by ego, desire and the…

EXCLUSIVE: After making his directing debut with the thriller The Rental, Dave Franco has found his next project, coming on to direct Somebody I Used To Know for Amazon Studios. Insiders also tell Deadline that Alison Brie, Jay Ellis and Kiersey Clemons are on board to star. Brie also co-wrote the script with Franco…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Oliver Masucci, Steve Howey and C.S. Lee are set to join Jamie Foxx in Netflix’s Day Shift. J.J. Perry, best known for his work as a second unit director and stunt coordinator on films like The Fast and the Furious and Bloodshot, will make his directorial debut on the…

UPDATED, Monday PM with exclusive chart: IFC’s horror movie The Rental came in a little lighter than expected but still was big enough to remain atop the pandemic-impacted weekend box office for a second week. The distributor reported a three-day gross of $290,300, down 28% from its first frame. Dave Franco’s feature…

MONDAY AM UPDATE: Below is the full chart for this past weekend, per industry estimates. While The Rental is slightly lower, it’s still a commendable showing by a new independent feature to best all these catalog titles that have been dominating the box office during the pandemic. I hear that the theaters which are…

Dave Franco is also ambitiously looking for a career behind the camera as well, and with his sharp B-movie feature debut The Rental, he makes a good case for it. As a director and writer (here working with Joe Swanberg on the script) he isn’t quite on the level of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut with Get Out, which…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Rental, the thriller that marks the directorial debut of Dave Franco. The film stars GLOW‘s Alison Brie, Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night). Pic will be released July 24. Scripted by Franco…

The forthcoming Quibi comedy The Now from Academy Award winner Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly has added O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Just Mercy, Straight Outta Compton), Daryl Hannah (Sense 8, Papa) and Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal, Stuber) in lead roles. The new series will also feature Alyssa Milano (Insatiable), Rob Yang…

EXCLUSIVE: STXinternational has picked up rights to Dave Franco's directorial debut The Rental, which stars Dan Stevens (Beauty And The Beast) and Alison Brie (Glow). Written by Franco and Joe Swanberg, the pic follows two couples who embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they've booked online. But…

Quibi has given a formal series order to comedy The Now from Peter and Bobby Farrelly and Anonymous Content, with Dave Franco in the lead role. Written by Oscar winner Peter Farrelly (Green Book), Steve Leff (The Ranch) and Pete Jones (Hall Pass), The Now is a comedy that examines what exactly makes life worth living…