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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…

Chris Rock is teaming with Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures for a fresh reimagining on the next Saw movie. The comedy multihyphenate has written a story that is being adapted by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg, and Rock also will executive produce. Lionsgate has dated the film for release on October 23, 2020. "When…

The game is back on in the first official trailer for Lionsgate’s horror film Jigsaw, the eight installment in the Saw franchise series. Like the previous films, Jigsaw will bow in theaters around Halloween on October 27. The film picks up ten years from the death of John Kramer, also known as the methodological…

Mandela Van Peebles co-stars in Lionsgate's forthcoming sequel Saw: Legacy, the eight installment in the horror film franchise. The pic is directed by sibling duo Peter and Michael Spierig from a script by Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell. In theaters October 27, just in time for…

In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Liam Neeson thriller The Commuter today for Oct. 13, 2017, the distributor also scheduled the upcoming Summit Entertainment action comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard from director Patrick Hughes for August 18, 2017, and a new untitled Saw movie for October 27, 2017. Hitman’s Bodyguard…