6TH UPDATE: MONDAY, 2:15 PM: The weekend box office is running 28.3% over 2015 with Disney's Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Revenant (in its expansion) both driving audiences in what started out as a neck-and-neck race and ended with Star Wars $2.5M ahead of the Golden Globe Best Picture Drama winner. With those…

Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens will continue to lord over the box office in its fourth frame with an estimated take of $45M-$50M, down 45%-50%. On the high end, that’s about what Avatar made at the same point in time: $50.3M. We’re already seeing a slowdown in Force Awakens’ grosses on a daily basis with Monday…

Japan’s Aokigahara Forest has long been associated with demons of Japanese mythology, which might have contributed to what the site is most well-known for. The 14-square mile region at the northwest base of Mount Fuji is a notoriously popular spot for people to commit suicide. And I mean popular – in 2003, 105 bodies…

EXCLUSIVE: AI Film has come aboard supernatural thriller The Forest as co-financier and co-producer. Game Of Thrones‘ Natalie Dormer and Chicago Fire‘s Taylor Kinney star in the film that began principal photography today in Tokyo. The Lava Bear Films project has Focus Features releasing domestically on January 8…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire‘s Taylor Kinney will spend his series hiatus starring in The Forest, the Jason Zada-directed thriller for Focus Features and Lava Bear. He’ll star alongside Game Of Thrones‘ Natalie Dormer in a film that is based on an original idea by David Goyer, and incorporates the mythology of Japan’s…

Good Universe has closed multiple international deals for the distribution of The Forest, a supernatural thriller starring Michiel Huisman (Wild, World War Z, Game Of Thrones) and Natalie Dormer (The Hunger Games, Game Of Thrones, Elementary). To be directed by Jason Zada from a script by Sarah Cornwell and Nick…

Game Of Thrones and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay star Natalie Dormer will lead the David Goyer-produced supernatural thriller The Forest, about an American woman who ventures into Japan’s legendary Aokigahara forest in search of her missing twin sister. Jason Zada is directing from a script by Sarah Cornwell and Nick…

Focus Features has acquired North American rights to The Forest, the supernatural thriller from David Linde’s Lava Bear Films and Phantom Four that is being being directed by newcomer Jason Zada. The script, rewritten by Sarah Cornwell and based on an original idea by David S. Goyer, is set in the Aokigahara Forest, a…