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4th Update, Sunday AM writethru after Saturday AM post: While it’s been widely forecast that 2020 will be a down year at the box office due to less Disney franchise IP on the schedule, the first weekend of the year, per Comscore, cleared $141.2M. That is lower than what we were seeing yesterday because of the fact…

Updated with Disney figures: Early morning estimates show Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker crossing the $400 million mark stateside with $407.6M after a New Year’s Day of $17M. That take bests the January 1 cash of The Last Jedi ($14.2M) and Rogue One ($16.75M). Skywalker ranks fourth among the…

Nicolas Pesce’s Grudge is now scheduled to go earlier next summer, on June 21, instead of Aug. 16. It’s a testament to Sony’s faith in the movie in an effort to get the widest audience possible. That’s not to say that horror doesn’t work when kids have one foot in school, and one foot at the beach in mid-August…

The Nicolas Pesce-directed remake of The Grudge has hit a speed bump. Taka lchise, the producer of the original Japanese Grudge franchise titled Ju-on, has filed a breach of contract suit saying that Good Universe refused to allow him to produce. The claim, which was filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court on July 30…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Pesce's horror dark comedy Piercing, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Midnight section this year, has been acquired by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group for a multi-platform release later this year. Pesce is a genre cinematic voice who has been on the rise, and he’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony is firming up the cast for its Grudge remake with the addition of two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver, Betty Gilpin, star of the Netflix series GLOW, William Sadler, and Frankie Faison. The group joins previously announced cast Andrea Riseborough, Demian Bichir, John Cho and Lin Shaye as filming is…

Sony has added Playtone’s Greyhound and The Grudge reboot to its 2019 release schedule. Both titles are from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquistions. Directed by Aaron Schneider and starring and written by Tom Hanks, Greyhound will open on April 5, 2019 and be up against Warner Bros./New Line’s Shazam!. Deadline first brok…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Riseborough is circling two more projects, we’re hearing: a role in Sony’ remake of The Grudge with Nicolas Pesce aboard to direct, and in the Amazon-Sky miniseries Zero, Zero, Zero, being helmed directed by Gomorrah ‘s Stefano Sollima. Pesce is rewriting and directing The Grudge for Sam Raimi’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Pesce has been set to rewrite and direct The Grudge reboot for Ghost House Pictures. Pesce, who made his directorial debut on the critically acclaimed 2016 Sundance pic The Eyes of My Mother, will resuscitate the Takashi Shimazu-directed 2004 film that helped establish the viability of low-cost…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grudge, the Takashi Shimazu-directed 2004 film that helped establish the viability of low-cost genre films, is getting a reboot. Ghost House Pictures and Good Universe will relaunch the franchise, and they’ve set Midnight Meat Train scribe Jeff Buhler to draft the reboot. The original starred Sarah…