EXCLUSIVE: James Wan's Atomic Monster has teamed with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Studios on Concrete Jungle, an urban nature docuseries.
Based on an original idea from Wan and Ingrid Bisu, Concrete Jungle is described as “not your typical natural history show”. It follows the…
EXCLUSIVE: James Wan has been labeled by fans for being responsible for killer doll movies, specifically his Conjuring franchise spinoff, Annabelle.
“It’s funny, I really hadn’t done that yet,” says the horror auteur. And that was his prime reason to create M3GANwith screenwriter Akela Cooper.…
Hoping to take the sub-horror killer doll genre to new heights, producers James Wan and Jason Blum have teamed on what they hope to be a modern technology-infused combo somewhere along the lines of Annabelle meets The Terminator. Short of literally doing that…
EXCLUSIVE: Peacock launched — some of it by design some by necessity because of the pandemic — with original comedies as well as dramas repurposed from linear NBCUniversal networks. In the first year following its July 2020 launch, Peacock debuted comedies Saved By the Bell, Punky Brewster, Rutherford Fall…
Prolific horror producers Jason Blum and James Wan are in advanced talks to merge their respective production companies Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, Deadline can confirm.
If the merger goes through, Atomic Monster will benefit from the first-look deal with Universal Pictures that Blumhouse is…
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EXCLUSIVE: An iconic monster is headed to Disney+. Disney Branded Television is in very early development onKing Kong (working title), a series for Disney+ tracking the original story of the famous ape. Deals have just closed for the project, from James Wan’s Atomic Monster, which would mark the first live-action…
EXCLUSIVE: In competition, Screen Gems has acquired Atomic Monster's body horror film pitch Cosmetic, based on an original idea from James Wan and Ingrid Bisu. The script will be written by R. H. Norman & Micheline Pitt, who are also attached to direct.
Wan and Michael Clear are producing for Atomic Monster with Bisu…
EXCLUSIVE: Following a highly competitive auction, Paramount Pictures has landed the horror pitch, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit from Melanie Toast. Toast also is penning the script and will produce, alongside producers James Wan for Atomic Monster and Will Rowbotham and Luke Maxwell for 3Arts
Brendan Deneen and Julianna…
Warner Bros brought a lot of DC — a lot — to its CinemaCon session Tuesday. In addition to a trailer for The Flash and Dwayne Johnson showing up to push DC League of Super-Pets and Black Adam, the cast of Shazam: Fury of the Godsstopped by with a trailer, as did James Wan who had a sizzle reel of Aquaman and the Lost…
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Sony is in early development on Thread, which Jeremy Slater, the head scribe of the upcoming Disney+/Marvel series Moon Knight, will write and direct.
Atomic Monster is producing with James Wan and Michael Clear (Malignant, Salem’s Lot) with Judson Scott and Melissa Russell serving as Executive…