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It’s been a great summer for horror films with Universal/Blumhouse’s The Purge: Election Year hitting a franchise high of $79M stateside, and New Line/Warner Bros.’ Conjuring 2 crossing $300M worldwide and marking the third best domestic debut for a scary pic at $40.4M. Well, New Line and Warner Bros. have more to…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has quickly flipped the switch on a sequel to Lights Out, the $4.9 million-budget genre film that already has grossed $27 million domestically and $35 million worldwide after opening Friday. David F. Sandberg confirms he will return for an encore of his feature directorial debut. The genesis…

UPDATED, Monday 1:44 PM: Despite being given an A- CinemaScore and kudos from critics, Star Trek Beyond for its opening weekend did not go where no film has gone before and there is a question about how far this film my fall in its second weekend when Jason Bourne comes into the marketplace and competes for similar…

UPDATED, Monday, 1:56 PM: International weekend grosses for two of the three openers came in higher than expected — in one case over $20M higher than anticipated as the Jackie Chan action comedy Skiptrace opened in China to a big $62.2M and gives Chan a new record in China (see related story). In seven markets, its…

Director David F. Sandberg has, up until now, had a helming career made for YouTube. His output has consisted of several hair-raising if similar shorts meant to demonstrate he can turn out the horror movie cliches with the best of them. Now one of those shorts has been turned into a full-length feature, Lights Out…

Essentially, this week can be defined as a Star Trek celebration. Before opening the Skydance/Bad Robot threequel Star Trek Beyond, Paramount has a couple of fan activities planned that it hopes will escalate the opening weekend for the Justin Lin movie from its current low-$50 million projection up to $60M. Star Trek…

This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is morphing into a fanboy film festival. Warner Bros./New Line is jumping into the mix and taking their horror production Lights Out down to the confab with a sneak preview on Wednesday, July 20 at 10PM at the UA Horton. Directed by David F. Sandberg based on his short, Lights…

With the pretty irresistible tagline “You were right to be afraid of the dark,” New Line Cinema unveiled its trailer today for Lights Out, director David F. Sandberg’s things-that-go-bump horror film set for a July 22 release. Produced by The Conjuring‘s James Wan, with a screenplay by Eric Heisserer, Lights Out stars…

Guy Ritchie’s untitled King Arthur film is moving to Presidents Day weekend. Warner Bros said today the film starring Charlie Hunnam as the British folk hero will open February 17, 2017. It’s part of a plan to capitalize on kids on winter break holidays — not just here in the States but also overseas, where the title…

Momentum Pictures has acquired rights in multiple territories including the U.S. to Outlaws & Angels, the revenge Western starring Luke Wilson, Chad Michael Murray, Teri Polo and Francesca Eastwood. The pic, written and directed by J.T. Mollner, centers on an outlaw whose gang of killers and bandits kill a U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Teresa Palmer, who has three films readying for release including Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, has been cast as the lead in Atomic Monster’s Lights Out for New Line Cinema. The horror film will be Atomic Monster's second with New Line after Annabelle, which grossed $255.2M worldwide when it was…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired for Syfy Films Lights Out, a Jay Frasco screenplay and the rights to the manuscript of his unpublished sci-fi thriller novel. While waiting to hear from publishers, Frasco adapted his manuscript into the screenplay and has notched his first spec sale. Details of the story are…