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EXCLUSIVE: Renata Vaca (Midnight Family), Paulette Hernandez (Crown of Tears), Joshua Okamoto (VGLY) and Octavio Hinojosa (How to Survive Being Single) are the newest additions to the cast of the 10th Saw film from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures.  The local leads for the film shooting in Mexico City…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Saw cast member Shawnee Smith is circling the newest installment in the billion-dollar horror franchise from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures, which is currently in production in Mexico City, Deadline hears.  While the studio declined to comment on Smith’s casting, we understand that…

Horror icon Tobin Bell has closed a deal to reprise his role as Jigsaw Killer John Kramer in the next Saw film from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures, which is heading into production later this month. The return of Bell to the franchise furthers Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures’ goal of a film that…

Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures are going into production on another Saw movie, which will hit theaters on October 27, 2023. Kevin Greutert, who directed Saw VI and Saw: The Final Chapter and edited the first five Saw pics and Jigsaw, will helm the latest installment, which will bring the number of pics in the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Conjuring creators Chad and Carey Hayes and producers Faster Horse Pictures (The Tax Collector) have set Saw franchise director Darren Lynn Bousman to helm their new horror franchise The LaLaurie Mansion. Bousman, who has directed four of the Saw movies including this year’s Spiral with Chris Rock and…

With Spiral marking the ninth entry in Lionsgate’s Saw horror franchise, the surprise isn’t the continuing novel and gross ways writers invent to brutally kill human beings but that an A-list cast including Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella would sign on to be a part of it. That is because this is a…

EXCLUSIVE: When most of the dust settled on the Covid-impacted 2020 broadcast pilot season, indie Lionsgate TV ended up with three new series orders — for Home Economics, which got off to a promising start at ABC, This Country at Fox and Ghosts at CBS —  on par with the major, vertically integrated studios and making…

The final trailer for Spiral: From the Book of Saw, coming May 14 from Lionsgate, adds healthy dollops of detective action to the usual horror mix. (Check it out above.) As theaters open up as coronavirus restrictions ease, Spiral will be one of the first notable genre entries to test the theatrical waters. Lionsgate…

UPDATED: Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch said "mid-budget films play better on our service than anything else," as per the exclusive first-window output deal for Lionsgate and Summit films announced this morning. "Movies are important to our service. Big box office movies drive a lot of acquisitions and conversions," he said on…

“From the book of Saw” comes Spiral, a re-imagining of the horror franchise that places Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella as detectives at the heart of the action. Details on the movie have been under wraps until now, but the trailer above gives a taste of what’s to come: Police are tracking a serial…

Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have shifted the release date for the forthcoming ninth installment to the Saw film franchise from October 23, 2020, to May 15, 2020. Long-time franchise fan Chris Rock came up with the idea for the still-untitled reimaging, which is being described as "Saw on steroids.” He’ll star…

Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols have joined the cast of Saw, the new installment of the Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures horror franchise that stars and is being executive produced by Chris Rock. Production is now underway in Toronto. It was Rock who came up with the story for the latest pic in the…