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After working with Mike Flanagan on four features between 2013 and 2017, cinematographer Michael Fimognari joined the genre master on The Haunting of Hill House, tapping into the "dread and mystery" inherent to an eerie New England home. A natural progression from those prior collaborations, Flanagan's adaptation of…

A terrifying spin on Shirley Jackson's classic horror novel of the same name, The Haunting of Hill House was a production designer's dream, a series in which the central location was the star—a living, breathing, decomposing and perturbing character unto itself. Joining Mike Flanagan on the first season of his Netflix…

Four months after The Haunting of Hill House debuted on Netflix, becoming a breakout hit, the Internet network has renewed the horror series from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy with a twist. The drama will become an anthology, with the second installment chronicling a new story with all new characters. Its title was rev…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is setting Carl Lumbly to play Dick Halloran and Alex Essoe to play Wendy Torrance in Doctor Sleep, the continuation of the storyline from The Shining. Those are the roles that Scatman Crothers and Shelley Duvall played in the Stanley Kubrick-directed original, if you are keeping score at home. M…

EXCLUSIVE: After the out-sized grosses on the Stephen King novel adaptation It, Warner Bros has put it sequel to King’s The Shining on the fast track. Mike Flanagan has been set to direct Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of the 2013 King novel that picks up the life of the Redrum kid Danny Torrance when he is in his 40s…

Shudder, the AMC Networks-backed horror-thriller streaming service, said today that its second annual workshop for aspiring genre filmmakers will be held June 11-15 in New York’s Hudson Valley. Dedicated to building the skill set and talents of exciting, emerging horror filmmakers, Shudder Labs will be led by its…

Netflix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to an untitled horror drama series from genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Ouija: Origin of Evil, Oculus, Hush), Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and Paramount TV. The project is a modern re-imagining of Shirley Jackson’s classic 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of Ouija: Origin of Evil, which is racing past $81M worldwide off a $9M budget, filmmaker Mike Flanagan is taking the reins of Sony’s Inherit the Earth, which he will write and is attached to direct. Flanagan is reconceiving the whole project, which is loosely based on the Columbia development script…

With Ouija: Origin Of Evil now in theaters, a new video has dropped examining the score for the Blumhouse Productions horror film. In it, composers The Newton Brothers (Andy Grush & Taylor Stewart) talk about the impact of classic horror films and horror film scores on their own work, particularly Poltergeist. Get a…

EXCLUSIVE: Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood have been set to star in Gerald’s Game, an adaptation of the Stephen King 1992 bestselling novel that Mike Flanagan will direct from a script he wrote with Jeff Howard. Netflix will release globally. Intrepid Pictures’ Trevor Macy will produce. Flanagan, who most recently…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed up-and-coming genre writer-director Mike Flanagan. Best known for the horror pic Oculus, Flanagan is currently directing Ouija 2 for Universal from a script he wrote with Jeff Howard, his Oculus co-writer. Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse Pictures are producing. The signing comes after…

Ouija 2, Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to last year’s tiny-budgeted sleeper Ouija, has scared up new cast additions Parker Mack (MTV’s Faking It), Sam Anderson, Kate Siegel (Demon Legacy) and Doug Jones (Falling Skies). They join the previously announced Henry Thomas (Betrayal), Annalise Basso (Oculus), Elizabeth Reaser (T…