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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate won an auction for 16 States, a thriller scripted by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra (Jungle Cruise This is Us), to be directed by Fede Alvarez, who helmed the genre hits Don’t Breathe and Evil Dead. They are keeping plot tight, but think road trip during a zombie pandemic. Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy L…

Fede Alvarez, the writer and director behind Sony’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web starring Claire Foy, and his writing partner Rodolfo Sayagues have closed an overall deal with Legendary Pictures. Under the pact, Alvarez and Sayagues will create, develop and produce films through their Bad Hombre Films banner staring…

With its “complete” title The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story, we get the idea that the filmmakers are trying hard to emphasize that this edition of the adventures of Lisbeth Salander is indeed new. It also feels quite different from its predecessors spawned from the well-regarded Stieg Larsson…

Jason Eisener has been set to direct an untitled techno thriller penned by Simon Barrett that will mark the first project from Bad Hombre, the label set up by Fede Alvarez and Good Universe to produce pics in the horror, thriller and sci-fi genres. Bad Hombre’s Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues will produce, and Good Universe…

Which of Deadline's disruptors has taken more advantage of shifts in the movie business than Uruguayan writer-director Fede Alvarez? By doing his second film on spec, he managed to own a majority stake in Don't Breathe, a horror film that cost $7 million and grossed $157 million worldwide. That brought him a payday…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar has set Fede Alvarez to direct a film that will delve into the universe Jim Henson hatched in the 1986 Jim Henson-directed cult classic Labyrinth. Alvarez and Jay Basu will co-write the story, with the latter penning the script. The duo will take on that hallowed project after Alvarez directs the…

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…

The Girl In The Spider's Web is moving forward at Sony with Fede Alvarez taking the reins as director. Monday's announcement revealed that the followup to David Fincher's 2011 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would feature an entirely new cast, which meant replacing Rooney Mara in the Oscar-nominated role of Lisbeth…

Sony Pictures is moving forward with The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the long-in-the-works follow-up to the studio’s 2011 pic The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Principal photography is set to begin in September and a release date scheduled for October 5, 2018. Don’t Breathe helmer Fede Alvarez has been aboard to direct…

You gotta laugh, given the current political environment. A new content company that will produce films across the horror, thriller and sci-fi genres has just been created by Good Universe and filmmaker Fede Alvarez. The name? Bad Hombre. The deal marks an ongoing relationship between the two companies. Good Universe…

Deadline has confirmed that Sony Pictures is in talks with Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez to direct The Girl in the Spider’s Web, an adaptation of the fourth in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo book series. Sony acquired the novel by David Lagercrantz last year (Dragon Tattoo original author Stieg Larsson died in…

It’s easy to think that if you’ve seen one “the hunter becomes the hunted” plot, you’ve seen them all. Then you watch something like the first trailer for Screen Gems’ Don’t Breathe and you forget why you’d ever said such a thing. From Evil Dead remake helmer Fede Alvarez, the film follows a trio of reckless thieves…