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With Halloween just around the corner, the house that inspired James Wan’s 2013 film The Conjuring is up for grabs.  Rhode Island realtor Mott & Chace Sotheby’s has put the Burrillville, RI property on the market for $1.2 million. The spooky 19th century home featuring three bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms sits on eight…

As we’ve seen with other HBO Max movies that hit theaters and the streaming service simultaneously, whenever there’s a solid number at the B.O., there’s also a solid draw in homes. That wasn’t the case with James Wan’s giallo-inspired horror title Malignant, which died at the weekend domestic box office with a $5.57M…

When you have a horror film series that keeps the cash flowing to the tune of $1.8 billion and counting, you just keep the new installments coming. Despite delays due to the pandemic, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros are tackling the continuing tales of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the seventh…

Deadline has confirmed that DC Films no longer is developing the properties New Gods, which had Ava DuVernay attached to direct, and Aquaman spinoff The Trench, which Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald were penning for James Wan possibly to helm. I hear The Trench is shelved due to Wan’s busy schedule with Aquaman 2…

This just in: James Wan’s upcoming horror movie Malignant is opening on Sept. 10 this year per Warner Bros. Again, this is part of their theatrical and HBO Max release plan. The movie, scheduled in the hot post Labor Day corridor that Warners created at the box office, fills the place for an untitled horror movie they…

EXCLUSIVE: After relaunching its monster-movie library with the hit The Invisible Man, Universal Pictures is continuing to build up its development slate and has its sights on one of its more iconic non-monster characters. Sources tell Deadline that Universal is developing an original horror/thriller inspired by the…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has set Bishal Dutta to direct an untitled original horror feature based on a spec by Joshua Rollins. James Wan's Atomic Monster will produce with Wan and Michael Clear as Producers and Judson Scott as Executive Producer. Plot details are being tightly held, but the project is an original horror…

The Boys and The Vampire Diaries writer Rebecca Sonnenshine is to showrun a Netflix series loosely based on the found footage supernatural horror podcast Archive 81. Atomic Monster, the production outfit founded by Saw and Aquaman writer James Wan, is producing. The eight-part series has set Jurassic World: Dominion…

At the DC Fandome virtual panel today, director James Wan teased a new direction with Aquaman 2. Though Wan wants to further develop the stories of Aquaman‘s characters, he yearned to do something fresh and exciting with the second installment. “I think the second one is a little bit more serious, a little bit more…

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…