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EXCLUSIVE: Spyglass Media Group has teamed with Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Michael Clear to develop a film based on the 1980s classic action series Knight Rider. TJ Fixman, a former video game writer, is adapting the screenplay. Created by Glen A. Larson, Knight Rider first aired on NBC from 1982-1986 and boosted…

The Warner Bros. Burbank, CA lot has been a ghost town for the last four-and-half-months, with employees working from home in quarantine. But somebody left Annabelle behind, and the below video shows what happens when the evil doll is left to her own devices, all alone, in the New Line offices. Back in late July…

EXCLUSIVE: In another deal that shows the streamer-fueled appetite for promising material and packages, Netflix has made a low-seven-figure commitment between rights to the Matt Query short story My Wife & I Bought a Ranch, and scripting fees for the author’s brother Harrison Query to write the screenplay. The story…

James Wan is prepping a film adaptation to Frank M. Robinson’s time travel story, Hunting Season, with Transformers producer Don Murphy and John Wick franchise writer Derek Kolstad on board to script. The story follows a law officer who is sent back to the past where, deemed an enemy of the state and is facing…

Deadline has confirmed that Annabelle Comes Home director Gary Dauberman is also taking the reins of the New Line feature adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. Dauberman was already adapting the 1975 horror novel for the big screen for producers James Wan, Roy Lee and Mark Wolper. Dauberman will also be EP. He…

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…

Universal is teaming with James Wan and his Atomic Monster production shingle on an original horror thriller that will be inspired by the studio’s monster-movie legacy. Wan is aboard to produce and Robbie Thompson (Netflix's Cursed) is writing the script. Details are under wraps (no Mummy pun intended), but we hear it…

EXCLUSIVE: Mckenna Grace is boarding James Wan’s horror directorial Malignant aka untitled Atomic Monster feature which New Line is opening on Aug. 14. Grace recently starred in the Conjuring universe's Annabelle Comes Home which Wan produced and had a story by on, and went on to gross over $231M WW. The actress joins…

EXCLUSIVE: A big move just happened. Scott Henderson is leaving Paradigm and we hear he’s heading to CAA. Henderson reps Aquaman director and Conjuring franchise architect James Wan, who counts well over $6.3 billion at the global box office (in directing, EP and producing credits) and the rep has been with the…

HBO Max announced a greenlight for James Wan’s Aquaman: King of Atlantis, an  animated mini-series looking to ride the wave of popularity for the DC Comics superhero amid the billion-dollar success of Wan’s 2018 live-action feature film. Aimed at family audience, Aquaman: King of Atlantis will be a three-part…

UPDATED, 12:33 PM: Amid a slew of changes to its…

Aquaman helmer James Wan’s horror thriller has a go date. Warner Bros Pictures has set his New Line movie Malignant for August 14. The cast of the Atomic Monster film formerly titled Silvercup includes Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, Jake Abel, Jacqueline McKenzie and Ingrid Bisu…