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EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Mathis and Henry Thomas have joined Paramount Players’ follow-up adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller Pet Sematary at Paramount Players. The duo join previously announced cast members Jackson White, Forrest Goodluck, Jack Mulhern, Natalie Alyn Lind, Isabella Star LeBlanc and Pam Grier…

EXCLUSIVE: Jackson White is in final negotiations to star as Jud Crandall in Paramount Players' follow-up adaptation of the successful 2019 Pet Sematary, based on Stephen King's best seller and self-proclaimed scariest book. The film begins shooting in August and will debut exclusively on Paramount+. Lindsey Beer wrote…

EXCLUSIVE: Pet Sematary, Stephen King’s self-proclaimed scariest property ever, next installment in the franchise has gained momentum as it looks like it has found its director. Sources tell Deadline, Lindsey Beer has signed on to direct Paramount Players' follow-up adaptation of the successful 2019 horror pic based…

The big Paramount studio, through Paramount Players, will be delivering three to four feature titles a year to streaming service Paramount+. The initial titles that will be produced for Paramount+ include the new Blumhouse Paranormal Activity directed by Will Eubank and written by Christopher Landon. Landon and Steven…

APA has signed Mary Lambert, the director of the original Pet Sematary. Lambert, whose additional credits include Pet Sematary Two, Siesta, The In Crowd and Face of Evil;  is currently helming the Netflix holiday romantic comedy A Castle For Christmas starring Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes. Lambert’s 1989 film…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Shazam! is the word at the international box office this weekend, with the Warner Bros/New Line/DC title striking past the $100M mark in its debut. On 40,000 screens in 79 offshore markets, the David F Sandberg-directed family superhero pic grossed $102M. The global opening is $158.6M when…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: New Line/DC’s Shazam! posted a solid hold on Saturday of $19.75M, -4%, putting its opening weekend at $53.45M. Add those Fandango $3.3M paid previews from March 23 and the DC superhero who was originally known as Captain Marvel (really, he was) has a running total of $56.7M. Shazam! flew in ahead of…

FRIDAY MIDDAY: New Line/DC’s Shazam! is currently at this point in time looking at a $18.9M Friday, a 3-day of $49M and including previews a running total of $52.3M. Note late night business yesterday pushed its Thursday higher, so we might see the same again tonight, plus Saturday matinees, natch. Paramount’s Pet Sema…

On stage in front of a South by Southwest crowd that had just been laughing, gasping and cringing to the wildly dark premiere of Pet Sematary, director Dennis Widmyer said, "What do you think? Feel good movie of 2019?" Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura had no use for sarcasm. He was blunt: "How f–ked up is this…

New Line’s Shazam! we hear is set to fly to a $40M-$45M start when it opens on April 5, a healthy opening in the marketplace after Captain Marvel‘s $153.4M, Us‘ anticipated $40M+ start next Friday and Disney’s Dumbo on March 28 which has a wild range from $58M to $75M (from some studio analysts). Hopefully some…

If you have read Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, then it probably freaked you out. If you watched the 1989 film adaptation directed by Mary Lambert then you probably were freaked out even more (remember how creepy Zelda was?). Now, the new 2019 iteration starring Jason Clarke and John Lithgow will continue the tradition…

The SXSW Film Festival has added more to their already robust lineup including the world premieres of the forthcoming remake of Pet Sematary and the horror The Curse of La Llorona as well as a screening of the series finale of Comedy Central’s Broad City and the second of season of YouTube’s Cobra Kai. In addition…