New Line’s The Nunofficially became the highest-grossing title in The Conjuring universe this weekend with a running global total of $330M, besting the $320M worldwide haul of The Conjuring 2 which previously owned that record.
With a net production cost of $22M, The Nun is bound for at least a $100M-plus profit…
While yucks haven’t translated into bucks at the box office for quite some time, the comedy genre is expected to come alive this weekend with Universal’s PG-13 rated Malcolm D. Lee-directed feature Night Schoolwhich is set to ace a $30M-plus opening; the highest debut for a comedy, well, since last July’s Girls…
6TH UPDATE, SUNDAY AM FINAL: With Chart and Overseas B.O. highlights Matinees proved magical for Amblin/Universal’s The House With a Clock In Its Wallswhich pulled in an estimated $11.5M on Saturday, which repped a huge 47% surge over Friday’s $7.8M (which included Thursday night’s $840K previews).
With an opening $2…
Looking at the new movie adaptation of the 1973 book from John Bellairs, it doesn’t take much to guess that it comes from Steven Spielberg’s family movie factory, Amblin. The House with a Clock in Its Walls is tailor made for at least this part of the Spielberg brand, but as I say in my video review (click the link…
“We don’t know what it does except something horrible,” warns Jack Black’s Jonathan Barnavelt as the group works to destroy the hidden clock in the newly released trailer from the Eli Roth-directed film, The House with a Clock in Its Walls. “Three gongs. Last time it was for four. What happens when it gets down to…
“Have a look around,” the welcoming, if eccentric, uncle (Jack Black) says to little Lewis, the aviator-goggled 10-year-old at the tick-tick-ticking heart of Eli Roth’s horror fantasy The House with a Clock in Its Walls. “You’re perfectly safe.”
Safe being a relative term, of course, when a purple-tentacled octopus is…
Universal will release Amblin’s The House With a Clock in its Wallson Sept. 21 next year.
Pic, based on the John Bellairs children’s book, stars Jack Black and two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett in a magical adventure that follows 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky…
EXCLUSIVE:Kyle MacLachlan has found a new gig after Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival. He has joined Jack Black and Cate Blanchett in the cast ofThe House With a Clock in Its Walls, the Universal/Amblin adaptation of the 1973 John Bellairs horror book illustrated by Edward Gorey. Eli Roth is directing.
Eric Kripke wrote…
Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is eyeing a co-starring role in Eli Roth’s adaptation of the John Bellairs’ 1973 gothic horror novel The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Once she signs on, she will join Jack Black in the Amblin Entertainment project.
The story follows a recently orphaned 10-year-old boy who…
EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment have set Eli Roth to direct and Jack Black to star in The House With A Clock In Its Walls, an adaptation of the 1973 John Bellairs book illustrated by Edward Gorey. It is part of a 12-book series. Eric Kripke wrote the script. Brad Fischer and James…