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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation we hear, Universal has snapped up a feature pitch from Intrepid Pictures based on the 1993 Christopher Pike novel The Season of Passage, a science fiction horror novel set on Mars. The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor creator Mike Flanagan will co-write the…

Netflix has set cast for The Midnight Club, a 10-episode horror series from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, based on the creative works of bestselling author Christopher Pike. The series hails from Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures, which has been under a deal with Netflix since 2019. “As we barrel toward the…

The Haunting… anthology franchise may have spooked up its last scare after creator Mike Flanagan said that there are no plans to continue the Netflix series. Flanagan, who created The Haunting Of Hill House and The Haunting Of Bly Manor, made the statement on Twitter, in response to a fan question about its…

Intrepid Pictures, the producer behind the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House and the newly announced Midnight Mass, has hired Adam Fasullo its VP Television. Fassulo had been in the same role at Paramount TV, where he worked with Intrepid partners Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy on Hill House. The Netflix horror…

Four months after The Haunting of Hill House debuted on Netflix, becoming a breakout hit, the Internet network has renewed the horror series from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy with a twist. The drama will become an anthology, with the second installment chronicling a new story with all new characters. Its title was rev…

Paramount Pictures has acquired its first screenplay for its Paramount Players label to go into production: the 2015 Black List horror script Eli, which will be released on Jan. 4, 2019. Pic will be directed by Sinister 2 director Ciaran Foy and follows a young boy who undergoes treatment for his rare disease in a…

Nextflix has acquired streaming rights to Hush, the micro-budget horror thriller written and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring his co-writer Kate Siegel. Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Intrepid’s Trevor Macy produced the pic, which had buyers circling when WME arranged a first screening last fall in Toronto. It bows…

Horror film The Bye Bye Man has rounded out its cast, adding Carrie-Anne Moss and Faye Dunaway, along with Cleo King, Jenna Kanell, and Erica Tremblay. They join Doug Jones, Michael Trucco, and previously-announced leads Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, and Lucien Laviscount. Set in 1990s Wisconsin, the film tracks…

Toronto Festival acquisition titles from Anomalisa to Eye in the Sky and the Michael Moore docu Where To Invade Next made strong debuts and have buyers circling. There was a surprise entry into all of this that is creating buzz. Hush, a micro-budget horror film written and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring his…

EXCLUSIVE: Oculus and Somnia director Mike Flanagan has committed to next helm Gerald's Game, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King. Flanagan wrote the script with his writing partner Jeff Howard. Trevor Macy and his Intrepid Pictures banner will produce, as he also did on Flanagan’s two horror…

And now there are five movies opening wide the weekend before Easter. Relativity has shifted Oculus from April 18 — where it slotted the horror pic only a month ago — to April 11, adding to an already-crowded frame. The Blumhouse film starring Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Rory Cochrane and Katee Sackhoff now will…

EXCLUSIVE: Intrepid Pictures has tapped Grzegorz Jonkajtys to helm Fourth Horseman, a contemporary action thriller. The logline: a young medical intern who is haunted by nightmarish clairvoyant visions of the future, is hunted by three of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He discovers his destiny is to prevent the…