Andrew Garfield has been attached to star in Under The Silver Lake, a modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles that is written and to be directed by David Robert Mitchell, who is making this his follow-up to his 2015 fantasy horror pic It Follows. Michael De Luca is producing this under his Michael De Luca…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed filmmaker David Robert Mitchell. Mitchell's first feature, The Myth Of The American Sleepover, premiered at SXSW in 2010 and won the Special Jury Prize. His follow-up It Follows, which he wrote, directed and produced, was one of the best reviewed horror films in recent years following its…

Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck raised some box-office hell this weekend and appears headed to 2015’s biggest non-fiction debut, even with only partial numbers available this morning and an HBO debut coming in about a week. On the dual-platform side, Adult Beginners acted like a VOD veteran, racking up $211,000 there…

It Follows writer/director David Robert Mitchell is making his first foray into TV. Universal Cable Prods and Benderspink are developing his crime series Mr. Postman. It follows a mailman who investigates the dark mysteries within his all-American town after a horrific event occurs on his own street. Mitchell is set…

Icon Film Distribution and FrightFest, the UK's leading horror film fest, have signed an exclusive partnership that will see Icon release FrightFest-curated films The selected titles will be offered across multiple platforms via Icon’s existing digital partners, including Sky, iTunes and Amazon. Icon and FrightFest…

In an era when horror films are built to profit off their shoestring budgets, the genre’s titles often live fast and quick lives at the box office. Then there’s David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, from Radius-TWC and Dimension, an art house/horror hybrid that has re-imagined the classic horror tropes with an auteurish…

David Robert Mitchell’s cult horror film It Follows, which saw a whopping 1,005% surge this weekend at the box office after going from 32 to 1,218 theaters, is upping its count to 1,655 this Friday. The expansion couldn’t be happening at a more perfect time as spring break is in full swing: Per Rentrak, 78% of K-12…

Most of the weekend actuals in the top 10 were down from their Sunday estimates with the exception of Christian drama Do You Believe? which made about $150K more than expected with $2.3M.  Also, The Gunman came in on target with $2M in 10th. However, the lower figures didn’t throw off the records that DreamWorks/20th C…

Final Update, Sunday 10 AM: Star power actually worked at the box office this weekend. For weeks, we’ve seen stars who couldn’t open films with their names: Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson and Vince Vaughn. The films failed for an array of reasons from mismatched genres to fatigued formulas. But this weekend, it was clear…

Warner Bros’ R-rated Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard had a great Thursday, grossing $1.8M. That figure beats the $1.1M generated by Hart’s Ride Along during its Thursday preview in January 2014. That film went on to make $41.5M over three days during its MLK weekend bow. In addition, Get Hard outstrips…

The play for students on spring break continues this weekend with the R-rated Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard in 3,175 theaters facing off with DreamWorks Animation’s Home from 20th Century Fox in 3,707. Each is expecting grosses from the low to mid $30Ms, making it a tough call for No. 1, however, some…

David Robert Mitchell’s horror film It Follows has been such a sensation in its limited release over the last two weekends, that RADiUS and Dimension Films are now going wide with the film in 1,200 theaters. Originally, the film was scheduled for VOD this coming Friday, however, given its success the distributor has…