So many comedy stars have now invaded the horror genre that it’s not even funny. This month, it was Orion Pictures pouncing on a Scandinavian slasher pitch by Simon Peggand Nick Frost. Last month, Lionsgate trumpeted Chris Rock as the idea man and executive producer who can pump new lifeblood into the studio’s rusty S…
Jordan Peele is producing a new Candyman movie and has cast Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the new Candyman. Monkeypaw Creative Director Ian Cooper was on a Produced By Conference panel The New Age of Producing Horror. Deadline asked Cooper how Candyman would fit in with what Monkeypaw has done with Get Out and Us. His…
On the heels of a record-setting premiere, CBS All Access has ordered a second season of The Twilight Zone anthology series.
"Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg's reimagining of The Twilight Zone is off to an amazing start on CBS All Access, driving the most viewers on its premiere day for an original series to date,"…
When television viewers tuned in to CBS in October 1959 to watch a new series called The Twilight Zone, they heard Rod Serling describe the show’s namesake territory as a dimension as “vast as space and as timeless as infinity.” That sounds like good news for the high-profile CBS All Access revival of the brand (since…
UPDATE, 2nd SUNDAY AM Update 9:30AM after 8:08AM post:Â With chartDisney’s Dumbodidn’t leave a big footprint with a meh $45M opening after a $17.5M Saturday, which, next to Friday-plus previews, is +16%. This is not one of the better openings for a tentpole-conceived live action remake of a Disney ‘toon from a…
Saturday Night Live presented a different kind of take on credit card problems, offering up a parody of Discover Card from the mind of Jordan Peele, the director of ‘Us.”
In the sketch, Ego Nwodim discovers some strange unauthorized charges on her Discover card, and calls the company to resolve the problem. So far, it…
Fresh off a well-deserved, scare-the-money-out-your-pockets box office weekend for his horror film Usand a PaleyFest panel for his forthcoming revival of the iconic Twilight Zone, Jordan Peele scaled down the spectacle and participated in the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Q&A series in Los Angeles. In a conversation…
The opening for Jordan Peele’s Us is even bigger than the $70.2M that Universal reported with early morning reports showing $71.1M after a $16.8M Sunday.
Sunday is 7% better than the $15.7M originally expected yesterday. Though exit polls for Us (B CinemaScore, 80% overall PostTrak positive) were behind Get Out‘s (A…
When Jordan Peele describes the once-in-a-lifetime chance to revive The Twilight Zone brand by following in the footsteps of producer-host-writer Rod Serling, he makes it sound like a dream come true. That’s not to say it was always a good dream – sometimes it felt like it was chasing him instead of vice…
SUNDAY AM FINAL after 6:41am post: Our sources spotted it last night and it has continued into this morning: Jordan Peele’s Us has cracked the $70M mark, after an estimated Saturday of $25.4M, which, next to the full Friday gross, is -12%. Uni is calling the weekend at $70.2M for the Monkeypaw Production, and rivals…
