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Exclusive: Zygi Kamasa, the veteran film executive who launched True Brit Entertainment 15 months ago, is on a scary mission to bring back Britain’s horror film heritage. Today, he reveals that his company will release period shocker The Dreadful starring Game of Thrones duo Sophie Turner and Kit Harington and Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden in the UK.

“I feel very much that I want to go further in trying to encourage the UK industry to make more horror movies because horror still works consistently well in cinemas,” Kamasa insists, citing the success of last year’s occult horror Longlegs.

Sophie Turner, Kit Harington

But Longlegs, and many other recent horror movies, were American made.

“If we’re going to do horror in this country, go back. I mean we were dominating horror in the Sixties and Seventies, the Hammer horror and all that.

A Prince Charming movie is in development at Disney with a director and screenwriters attached. Prince Charming is an archetypical character who is present in many fairy tales, but in terms of Disney princess movies he is most often linked to 1950's Cinderella. While their original animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featured an unnamed prince who had similar characteristics, Cinderella was the first canonical Disney princess title to use the name Prince Charming, with subsequent princes usually receiving first names including Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid and Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty.

Per Deadline, Paddington and Wonka director Paul King is now attached to a Prince Charming movie that is in the works at Disney. This project is said to not tie into Cinderella. Plot details are currently unknown about the script, which will be penned by King, Jon Croker, and King's frequent collaborator Simon Farnaby.

Gal Gadot, star of the “Wonder Woman” movies and periodic ensemble player in The “Fast” Saga, is getting her crack at a Netflix female-led actioner.

In “Heart of Stone,” Gadot stars as an MI6 agent who secretly works for a covert peacekeeping organization known as The Charter. However, things go awry, as they often do in these films, leaving the professional badass comparatively isolated from her MI6 life and having to save the day with little backup. What follows is the expected assortment of action stunts (including a snowy mountaintop skydiving escape) and more conventional sky-high fight scene amid fisticuffs and shootings.

So, no, “Heart of Stone” doesn’t seem to reinvent the wheel, but if it works on its own terms then that will be enough for most Netflix viewers. Whether it spawns a new franchise, well, there’s a long road between “This is the start of a new franchise!

With filming set to start next month in Europe, we have official details on the Return to Silent Hill, including confirmation that Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson will star in the film:

"Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson will star in the new psychological horror Return to Silent Hill. Christophe Gans, director of the first Silent Hill feature, is returning to reprise his role at the helm of this next installment in the film franchise. Written by Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh (Beauty and the Beast) and William Josef Schneider, Return to Silent Hill is based on Silent Hill 2, the second and most popular game in Konami’s successful video game series.

The film follows James, a man broken after being separated from his one true love. When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill in search of her, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil.

Exclusive: Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Hannah Emily Anderson (Jigsaw) will lead horror reboot Return To Silent Hill.

Filming is due to get underway next month in Germany and Eastern Europe on the project, which will mark a return for the original Silent Hill director Christophe Gans.

Written by Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh (who collaborated with Gans on Beauty and the Beast) and William Josef Schneider, the movie is based on Silent Hill 2, the second and most popular game in Konami’s hit video game series.

The film will follow James (Irvine), a man broken after being separated from his one true love (Anderson). When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill in search of her, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil. As James descends deeper into the darkness, he encounters terrifying figures both familiar and new and begins to question his own sanity...

Return to Silent Hill plot and crew details have been revealed by the production company. The upcoming film is a new film adaptation of the Silent Hill horror video game franchise, which began in 1999 and has expanded to nine titles along with remakes and other linked games. The franchise previously came to the screen in 2006's Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans, which was followed by M.J. Bassett's Silent Hill: Revelation, adapting the game Silent Hill 3. Return to Silent Hill, which was announced a few months ago, will be a sequel to the original film written and directed by Gans and adapting the storyline of Silent Hill 2.

In a recent press release from Bavarian film company Fff Bayern, they revealed further details about Return to Silent Hill. This includes the fact that the film will follow James Sunderland as he returns to the town of Silent Hill in...

With filming due to get underway very soon for Christophe Gans‘ Return to Silent Hill, you’re probably wondering just what exactly the details are for the film, including the story and cast. Luckily, German website Filmportal has provided a few details, including some preliminary casting and a few changes from the game’s story.

According to the site, Return to Silent Hill will be a German-British-Serbian co-production between Munich-based Maze Pictures with Metropolitan and Davis Films from Paris, and The Electric Shadow Company and Lotus Wallace from London. Half of the filming will take place in Germany, with Munich, Penzing, Nuremberg, Rossberg, and Lake Ammer being the locations of choice.

Alongside a screenplay from Gans, the film will be photographed by Benoit Debie, with Felicity Abbott handling production design and Sébastian Prangère serving as editor.

The synopsis goes like this: “Driven by the shadows of his past, James Sunderland...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures has set Jon Croker (High In The Clouds) to adapt anticipated fantasy novel series Skandar And The Unicorn Thief, which was acquired by Simon and Schuster and Sony in seven-figure deals last year.

The first book in author A.F Steadman’s series, which is set to launch in spring 2022, follows a thirteen-year-old boy whose dreams of becoming a unicorn rider are disrupted when an emerging enemy steals the land’s most powerful unicorn.

The publishing deal, made by Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster U.S., was the biggest known deal for a children’s debut. Sony preemptively acquired the feature rights with their own aggressive offer.

Drew Reed and Jake Bauman were key in landing that deal and Peter Kang has been overseeing the project for Sony Pictures.

Croker is best known for scripting The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death...

Exclusive: As production of Studiocanal and The Picture Company’s horror thriller Baghead begins, Deadline has learned that War Horse actor Jeremy Irvine, Top of the Lake Emmy nominee Peter Mullan, You actress Saffron Burrows, and Netflix Dark actress Julika Jenkins have joined the feature alongside previously announced Ruby Barker and Freya Allan.

Baghead is adapted from the festival fave short film of the same name and will be directed by Alberto Corredor who also directed the short. Christina Pamies and Bryce McGuire wrote the screenplay. Baghead follows the enigmatic Baghead, a diminutive wrinkled up person who is able to manifest the dead and bring them back to our world for brief periods of time. People seek out the medium to reconnect with lost loved ones. Once in contact with Baghead however, the title character’s true powers and intentions are revealed and there is a high price to pay...

HBO Max's Green Lantern TV series may have just found the second member of its Green Lantern Corps. After Finn Wittrock was previously cast in the lead role of the Guy Gardner incarnation of Green Lantern, there are now new reports coming in of Jeremy Irvine in talks with the producers to also star as Alan Scott - another version of the superhero depicted as a gay man in the comics. No comment was offered by HBO Max.

This news also follows recent reports that a gay version of Green Lantern would be included in the HBO Max series. Writers Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and Marc Guggenheim (Arrow) also previously revealed their intentions to include various members of the Green Lantern Corps like Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and Alan Scott. Because Alan is a gay man in the comics, it was expected that this was the...

Heart of Stone, the Skydance spy thriller led by Wonder Woman 1984 star Gal Gadot, is officially moving to Netflix. The streaming giant reportedly came out on top of a competitive auction for worldwide rights of the project, which is being developed as the first installment in a franchise akin to that of James Bond and Mission: Impossible, with Gadot reportedly signing an eight-figure deal for the project.

Rumors began to circulate towards the end of last year that Skydance were open to the idea of sending the movie straight to streaming, and, with the current global circumstances showing no sign of slowing down, streaming debuts for big budget blockbusters are here to stay for the foreseeable future, with Skydance clearly feeling that Heart of Stone should be added to the ever-growing roster.

Heart of Stone is being directed by Tom Harper, who most recently helmed the adventure movie The Aeronauts...

It was rumored earlier this year that Gal Gadot was being eyed to lead her own spy franchise akin to the likes of the James Bond and Mission: Impossible franchises, and it has now been confirmed, with the project reportedly titled Heart of Stone. The spy thriller is an original idea and is said to be putting a female spin on the genre.

Tom Harper, who most recently directed the adventure movie The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, is in talks to helm the project. Hopper is also known for The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, and the musical comedy-drama Wild Rose, as well as directing episodes of such small screen ventures as Misfits, This Is England '86, War & Peace and the popular period crime drama show Peaky Blinders.

The script for Heart of Stone is being penned by comic book writer Greg Rucka, who...

MGM has attached “The Aeronauts” director Tom Harper to its romance “Forever” — a project that’s been in development at the studio for eight decades.

Jonathan Glickman is producing “Forever,” based on a romantic novella by Mildred Cram (“Love Affair”), which focuses on two lovers from the past who are reincarnated in the modern world.

“Forever” was originally published in 1935 and purchased for MGM by the studio’s first head of production, Irving Thalberg, for his wife Norma Shearer. Thalberg died in 1936 and story has never made its way to the big screen. Hal Ashby was attached to direct at one point during the 1970s.

Harper also produced “Aeronauts,” which starred Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. Harper’s feature credits include “Wild Rose,” “The Woman in Black: Angel of Death,” “The Scouting Book for Boys” and “War Book.” His TV credits include the 2016 BBC series “War and Peace” along with segments for “Peaky Blinders,...

Back in 2016, it was reported at the Cannes Film Festival that a remake of 1968's Witchfinder General was in the works with Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon) producing. Now, several years later at Cannes, the director for the remake has been revealed.

Deadline reports that John Hillcoat is on board to direct the Witchfinder General remake. A cast has yet to be assembled, but production is being planned to begin as early as this year.

Hillcoat will direct from a screenplay by Jon Croker (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death), with Bynwr.com's Refn and Rupert Preston producing alongside Hillcoat’s Blank Films.

Here's what Refn had to say (via Deadline) about Hillcoat directing the remake:

"It is with extreme pleasure that both Rupert and I can incorporate John Hillcoat into our group as director for our production of Witchfinder General. It gives me enormous satisfaction to...

’Wonder Park’, ’Wild Rose’ among other new openers.

Lionsgate’s superhero title Hellboy will look to overcome predominantly negative reviews for the film in its first weekend at the UK box office.

After a reviews embargo that lifted at 10pm UK time on Wednesday 10, the film opened wide around the country yesterday (Thursday 11).

Directed by Neil Marshall, the film is based on the Dark Horse Comics character, who battles an undead sorceress trying to destroy the world. Stranger Things star David Harbour plays the title role, alongside Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and Thomas Haden Church.

Exclusive: All aboard! Paddington duo Paul King and David Heyman are teaming up on “magical love story” Time’s Fool for Fox Searchlight.

King is developing and will direct the feature, which is an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale In Verse, about a young man who is cursed to ride a train for eternity, except for one night every seven years when the train pulls into his home town and he has a few hours to unravel the nature of his entrapment.

Screenplay is being written by King and Jon Croker (The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death) who will both produce alongside Paddington and Harry Potter series producer Heyman. UK scribe Croker was part of the writing team on both Paddington films.

On publication in 2001, British writer Maxwell’s nostalgic verse poem Time’s Fool drew comparison to supernatural classics such...

Exclusive: The Grand Budapest Hotel star Ralph Fiennes is set to flex his comedy muscles again, this time as composer George Frederick Handel in period comedy-drama Hallelujah!, I can reveal. Veep helmer and The Thick Of It star Chris Addison will direct the movie which comes from Rush producer Andrew Eaton and Yardie producer Gina Carter.

Jon Croker (The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death) and Nicholas Adams’ (The Boys And Girls From Country Clare) script, set to shoot in early 2019, is a feel-good comedy-drama described to me as being in the vein of Shakespeare In Love. It tells the story of Handel’s canonical piece of music Messiah and its chaotic, spectacular first performance.

The movie is the first out of the gate for long-time Revolution Films producer Eaton at new production company Turbine Studios, where he is a partner with fellow producers Tracey Scoffield (The Frankenstein Chronicles...

MaryAnn’s quick take… An ostensible fairy tale of the creative life in London that tries too hard to be eccentric, while also trying too hard to be grounded and realistic. This is one of those idiosyncrasies that you really can’t have both ways. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film

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Bella Brown, orphan of unusual circumstance, is, we are informed, “the oddest of oddballs.” Except she’s not very odd at all. She’s a pretty normal woman with a touch of Ocd, creative aspirations that she can’t seem to bring to fruition, and an inability to get to work on time. (Those might be unusual characteristics for women onscreen, but they are entirely mundane in the real world.

Period adventure reunites leads from The Theory Of Everything.

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Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment will launch international sales at the Efm next month on Amazon Studios’ The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.

Oscar-winner Redmayne and Jones, his Oscar-nominated co-star in the Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde romance The Theory Of Everything, star in the period adventure as headstrong scientist James Glaisher and wealthy widow Amelia Wren, who mount an expedition to fly higher in an air balloon than anyone has gone before.

Fully aware of the risks, the pair discover things about each other and themselves as they make their perilous ascent.

Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, riding high on the $250m-plus global success of Wonder and 2017 phenomenon Beauty And The Beast, are producing the drama.

Tom Harper, who directed episodes of Peaky Blinders, War & Peace, sci-fi anthology Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams on Amazon’s Prime Video service...

Period adventure reunites leads from The Theory Of Everything.

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Glen Basner’s FilmNation Entertainment will launch international sales at the Efm next month on Amazon Studios’ The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.

Oscar-winner Redmayne and Jones, his Oscar-nominated co-star in the Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde romance The Theory Of Everything, star in the period adventure as headstrong scientist James Glaisher and wealthy widow Amelia Wren, who mount an expedition to fly higher in an air balloon than anyone has gone before.

Fully aware of the risks, the pair discover things about each other and themselves as they make their perilous ascent.

Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, riding high on the $250m-plus global success of Wonder and 2017 phenomenon Beauty And The Beast, are producing the drama.

Tom Harper, who directed episodes of Peaky Blinders, War & Peace, sci-fi anthology Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams on Amazon’s Prime Video service...

Mediterranean-set love story is told in reverse

The company announced on Wednesday it has acquired television rights to Peter Nichols’s novel.

BAFTA-nominated Tom Harper (pictured) will direct The Rocks and Laura Eason is attached to adapt the screenplay. Harper’s credits include the War & Peace mini-series and horror feature The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death.

The book was published in 2015 and is a love story told in reverse set on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.

The story starts in the present day with the death of an older married couple who fall from a cliff after an argument.

It rewinds through time, following the intertwined lives of the couple and their families over the course of 50 years.

The series, developed in the Us and the UK, is being spearheaded by eOne’s Carolyn Newman and Polly Williams. eOne controls worldwide rights to the series.

“Dark, funny and romantic, with a unique...

Last year three new films debuted over Super Bowl weekend and only one of the three (Hail, Caesar!) managed to top $10 million. In fact, Super Bowl weekend last year was the fourth worst overall weekend of 2016 as the top twelve managed to only gross a combined $82 million. As for Super Bowl weekend this year, it's only looking mildly better as Universal's Split will tussle with Paramount's Rings in an attempt to threepeat atop the weekend box office. Elsewhere, Stx's The Space Between Us may struggle to debut within the top five while the Weinstein Co. hopes their Oscar-nominated feature Lion finds its way into the top ten as it expands into over 1,400 theaters nationwide. Last weekend saw Universal's Split finish atop the weekend box office for a second week in a row, dropping only 36%, much better than previous horror films with similar openings. This weekend Split will have to contend...

The Hammer Films Eis Fund will back film and TV projects.

UK financier Motion Picture Capital, the Reliance Entertainment Group subsidiary, has formed a partnership with iconic UK production company Hammer Films.

The two companies are teaming on a new film fund called The Hammer Films Eis Fund which will offer private investors the opportunity to invest in a slate of Hammer branded film and TV productions.

The new fund will sit alongside Motion Picture Capital’s existing Eis fund and will only be accessible through a financial adviser.

Iconic horror label Hammer, best known for gothic horror films of the 1950’s including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and Christopher Lee’s Dracula, made a splash in 2012 with UK horror The Woman In Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which became the highest-grossing British horror film on record, taking £21.3m in its home territory and going on to gross over $130m worldwide.

2014 productions included...

If Jack Thorne was considered hot property before Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, penning the adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s wildly successful story has only ensured Thorne is one of the most in-demand writers on the other side of the pond. Soon after breaking onto the scene with British teen drama Skins, the screenwriter enjoyed a streak that comprised award-winning contributions to This Is England ’88, The Fades, Don’t Take My Baby and This Is England ’90.

Imagine our excitement, then, now that Deadline has relayed news that Jack Thorne was inked a deal to collaborate with War & Peace helmer Tom Harper for The Aeronauts, a true-life period drama said to revolve around two enthused hot air balloonists who scaled higher than anyone else in the 19th century. Both Thorne and Harper are currently in possession of a spec script, meaning this project won’t be ready to fire up production anytime soon.

Exclusive: Woman In Black 2 star joins comedy, which is set to shoot this month.

Phoebe Fox has joined Sam Rockwell in Blue Iguana, a comedy from writer-director Hadi Hajaig, who last directed Charlotte Rampling-Sean Bean thriller Cleanskin in 2012.

The project, which will be financed by UK Film Studio Productions, will start principal photography in London this month.

Hajaig also produces with 3 Arts Entertainment’s Tom Lassally, who is also working on the Edge of Tomorrow sequel at Warner Bros.

The black comedy centres on a low level criminal (Rockwell) with no future who is just out of prison. Fox will play a low level lawyer who falls in love with him. The cast also includes comedy actor Ben Schwartz (Parks & Recreation, House Of Lies).

Fox, a Screen International Star Of Tomorrow in 2011, is perhaps best known for her role in horror sequel The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death (2014) but was more recently seen in...

According to reports, the 2004 Idw, 3-issue comic book series "Aleister Arcane", written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Breehn Burns, about a late night horror movie host, will star Jim Carrey for director Eli Roth and Amblin' Entertainment:

Screenplay is by Jon Croker ("The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death") for producers David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films, with Michael Aguilar.

"...Los Angeles weatherman 'Aleister Green' returns to his hometown to host a midnight horror movie show. Under the guise of mad scientist 'Aleister Arcane', Green performed little skits until the local sponsors balked at the gore.

"Then an incident with two kids leads to him to be put on trial, breaking his spirit and into an early grave. Not long after, grisly activities begin to occur and only the kids have the power to thwart the curse he has laid upon their town..."

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Jim Carrey will executive produce and star in a new Eli Roth film about a late night horror TV show host seeking revenge from beyond the grave.

Earlier today, THR broke the news that Eli Roth will step behind the camera for Aleister Arcane, an adaptation of Steve Niles’ 2004 comic book series of the same name that centers on a curse cast on a small town by the recently deceased Aleister Arcane, a weatherman-turned-horror-tv-host who was pushed off the air by upset viewers.

Jim Carrey will executive produce the project, which is moving forward at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, and while his character in the film has yet to be revealed, the titular role sounds right up his alley. Jon Croker (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death) will adapt Niles’ comic book for the big screen.

Yesterday, it was revealed that Roth will also direct the Bruce Willis...

After signing up for Pacific Rim 2, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Attack the Block star John Boyega has found his next role. He revealed on Twitter (seen below) that he’ll take part in Kathryn Bigelow‘s follow-up to her Oscar-winning Zero Dark Thirty. Penned by Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker), the currently untitled film will be set in Detroit during the 5-day riots that took place there in 1967, and will explore the systemic racism of the city. With plans to shoot this summer in Boston and Detroit, the film is slated as an ensemble piece with Hannah Murray (God Help the Girl, Game of Thrones) also on board.

I've teamed up with Kathryn Bigalow for a movie based on the Detroit riots in 1967. #12thstreet

— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) June 21, 2016

With plans already in place to remake Death Wish, THR reports that Eli Roth has now lined up another project,...

Jim Carrey and Eli Roth are teaming to adapt Aleister Arcane, a comic book from horrormeister Steve Niles. Amblin Entertainment has picked up the package as a pitch that includes Jon Croker, the scribe behind The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, attached to pen the script, with David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films producing along with Michael Aguilar. Carrey will star in and executive produce the project. Aleister Arcane, published in 2004, told the story of a Los Angeles weatherman named Aleister Green who returns to his hometown to host a midnight horror show a la

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Per usual, a bevy of long-playing releases are positioned in the mid-level of weekend results below the top performers.  Three new films opened to little interest, reinforcing a 2016 so far that has been mostly feast or famine among new wide releases. Through nine weekends last year, ten films had opened to over $15 million (hardly stellar, as "The Woman in Black 2" and "Jupiter Ascending" accomplished that much). Only six have achieved that so far this year. Eleven managed that level in 2014. So while "Deadpool" continues to thrive, it's hard not to see serious defects in the market at the moment. The Top Ten 1. Deadpool (20th Century Fox) Week 3 - Last weekend #1 $31,500,000 (-44%) in 3,856 theaters (+134); PTA (per theater average): $8,169; Cumulative: $285,639,000 2. Gods of Egypt (Lionsgate)  New - Cinemascore: B-; Criticwire: C-; Metacritic: 24; est. budget: $140 million $14,000,000 in 3,117 theaters; PTA: $4,491; Cumulative: $ 3....

Live By Night

Ben Affleck has posted the first photo from the set of "Live By Night", the adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Prohibition-era crime thriller which Affleck is both starring in and directing. The shot includes both Affleck and his cinematographer Robert Richardson in between takes conversing. The film itself is slated for release in 2017. [Source: Twitter]

The Serpent

Ciro Guerra ("Embrace Of The Serpent") has signed to make his English-language directing debut on the dystopian adventure "The Detainee" for Thunder Road Pictures and Film House Germany.

An adaptation of Peter Liney's trilogy by scribe Grant Myers ("The Maze Runner"), the story is set on an island from which there's no escape. Christian Angermayer and Basil Iwanyk will produce. [Source: Deadline]

The Ruins

Fox Searchlight and Joe Wright's Shoebox Films are teaming to develop the India-set supernatural thriller "The Ruins" with Jon Croker ("Desert Dancer," "The Woman In Black 2:...

Alien: Covenant: Demian Bichir (The Hateful Eight, above) has joined the cast of Alien: Covenant, which will be directed by Ridley Scott. Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterstone and Danny McBride lead the cast; Bichir's role has not yet been disclosed. The movie is scheduled for release on October 6, 2017. [Deadline]   The Ruins: Filmmaker Joe Wright (Pan, above left) is developing supernatural thriller The Ruins, with the idea that he might direct it. Not to be confused with the same-titled 2008 horror movie, Jon Croker (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death) is writing the new project; all that's known about the story is that it's set in India. [Deadline]   Kill Your Friends Trailer: Nicholas Hoult stars in Kill Your Friends as a British music...

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The Woman in Black 2. Devil’s Due. Texas Chainsaw 3D. The Devil Inside. The Rite. The Unborn. Horror films released in January don’t have the best track record when it comes to quality, but while the majority leave a lot to be desired they can’t all be complete busts, right? I mean there’s Daybreakers and, well, parts of Mama were creepy I guess. This year’s entry in the January horror sweepstakes wisely leaves the devil behind as it takes viewers on a nightmare journey to a foreign land where it proceeds to waste one hell of a spectacular locale. Sara (Natalie Dormer) wakes from a nightmare and feels that her twin sister, Jess (Dormer), is in trouble. The last Sara knew, Jess was trying to get her life back on track and was teaching English in Japan, but she can tell that something is wrong. A...

The Revenant exploded this weekend as audiences showed up in droves to see Leonardo DiCaprio brave the elements in his quest for revenge. The strong Oscar contender expanded into 3,375 theaters and amassed an impressive $38 million taking second only to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which not only finished #1 domestically but started its China release strong. Meanwhile The Forest continues to prove there's a reliable audience willing to show up for low budget, PG-13 horror at the beginning of the year. First for The Revenant, which not only decimated BoxOfficeMojo projections, but seems to have proven the idea of a star's drawing power is not as dead as some may have you believe. DiCaprio's last five films that opened in over 3,000 theaters have all grossed $30 million or more in their opening weekend. And that doesn't include Shutter Island, which opened in 2,991 theaters back in 2010 and brought in $41 million. The $38 million for...

Saturday Morning Update: The Revenant is blowing the doors off the box office, bringing in an estimated $14.4 million on Friday (including $2.3M from Thursday night previews) with early estimates pegging the overall weekend around $38.5 million. While this crushes BoxOfficeMojo's weekend forecast, it won't likely be enough to take down Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is now estimated to bring in $40M+. It could, however, be a close race depending on word of mouth as The Revenant has scored a "B+" CinemaScore. The weekend's other new wide release, The Forest, generated an estimated $4.9M on Friday with the studio estimating around $11.7 million for the weekend. The film has earned very poor reviews and a weak, "C" CinemaScore from opening day audiences. You can browse the complete Friday estimates here. As for Star Wars, it brought in an estimated $14.4 million domestically on Friday while Disney is reporting an estimated $33 million from its first day in China.

This first weekend of 2016 is the second largest January weekend of all-time. The top twelve grossed an estimated $204.6 million, $4.5 million shy of the current record, set in 2009 when Avatar was king of the world. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, however, has its eye on Avatar's crown as it now sits in second place, just $20 million behind Avatar's all-time domestic record, and over $1.5 billion worldwide. Also making headlines this weekend Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight expanded nationwide, Daddy's Home and Sisters prove people want comedy and Charlie Kaufman's stop-motion animated feature hit limited theaters. Beginning with Star Wars, Disney is estimating an $88.3 million weekend, which brings the film up to $740.2 million after only 17 days in theaters. It's the fastest film to cross $700 million domestically, doing in 16 days what took Avatar 72. The film has broken 40 box office records (and those are just the records BoxOfficeMojo officially tracks at this time...

Working Title has tapped screenwriter Jon Croker ("The Woman in Black 2") to bring Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" to the screen again, in the first live-action adaptation since the 1970s, when it aired as a TV series on Britain's ITV. (The Children's Film Foundation made two films based on the books, in 1957 and 1964, and an animated series set in the present aired in 2008.) The 21-book series, published between 1942 and 1963, follows an adventurous tomboy, Georgina—who prefers "George"—her dog, Timmy, and her three cousins as they swill ginger beer, search for lost treasure, and chase criminals while on holiday in the British countryside. (The "Famous Five" stories have much more in common with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys than they do Harry Potter, where Croker cut his teeth as an assistant to "Goblet of Fire" director Mike Newell.) Working Title's plans stand out in the crowded Ya marketplace,...

British scribe Jon Croker ("The Woman In Black 2: The Angel of Death," "Desert Dancer") will adapt Enid Blyton's classic novel characters "The Famous Five" into a new feature and potential franchise launcher for Working Title.

Blyton is one of the biggest-selling children's authors in history with global sales of over 600 million books. She penned over twenty novels featuring the five - a group of four young children and their dog Timmy.

The first novel debuted in 1942 and Blyton released a new one annually (aside from 1959) right up until 1963. The property was previously adapted into two films in 1957 & 1964, and two TV series in 1978 and 1995.

Working Title acquired the theatrical rights to Blyton's series last year. Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan will produce.

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Sony was very conservative with their predictions for Goosebumps before the weekend even began. Even after it brought in $600,000 from Thursday night preshows they held firm saying the children's horror was tracking for a $12-15 million opening. While the film fell well shy of my $31.5 million prediction, it did manage enough to top the weekend box office in a weekend that saw four new wide releases hit the marketplace, none of which managed to truly breakout. With an estimated $23.5 million, Goosebumps took the top spot, playing in 3,501 theaters. The "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences suggests this could be looking at a solid run through the month of October as there is little left to satisfy the family audience until The Peanuts Movie arrives on November 6. Goosebumps topped Ridley Scott's two-time box office champion The Martian by two million. The Matt Damon-starrer finished its third weekend with an...

Macquarie Investments raised its objection to Relativity Media’s plan to arrange a sale, and get out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, today in a filing at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court handling the case. The firm says it’s owed nearly $32.9 million for loans it made to pay for prints and advertising for three films: The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death ($19.1 million), The Lazarus Effect ($10.6 million), and Beyond The Lights ($3.2 million). As part of the loan…...

The first trailer for the acclaimed chiller about sinister happenings in 1600s New England creeps on to the web

It’s been another fairly innocuous year for horror at the cinema (bar It Follows) and no one will be losing any sleep over Insidious 3 or The Woman in Black 2. So when The Witch came out of nowhere to receive ecstatic reviews at Sundance, genre fans took note.

Related: Sundance 2015 review: The Witch – a focus on themes over plot elevate it to near greatness

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Riveting, terrifying, and unafraid to confront its own quiet horror. One of the most important movies ever about nuclear weapons and modern governance. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Over the weekend of the 70th anniversary of the first — and so far only — use of atomic bombs in anger, cinemagoers in and around London will have an opportunity to see one of the most extraordinary movies about nuclear warfare ever made. (And then it will air on the BBC next week.) There are no mushroom clouds in War Book. There are no screams of fear or pain. There are no ticking countdowns that may or may not be defused in the nick of time. There is no disaster porn. No stock footage of test blasts from the 1950s is deployed. There are just civil servants...

While Hollywood accounting is known for defying the rules of logic and mathematics, you can go only so long without making money before things catch up with you, and Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity is learning that very quickly. The studio's biggest hits in its history have been "Immortals" and "Limitless," both released in 2011, and yet, neither film cracked $85 million domestically. Since then, things have been on a steady downward decline and 2015 was particularly rough. Horror sequel "The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death," Kevin Costner race drama "Black Or White," low budget scare flick "The Lazarus Effect" and something called "Desert Dancer" were all released. None made more than $26 million ("Desert Desert" barely crossed $150,000), and it was only 'Lazarus Effect' that made anything resembling a profit with its paltry $3.3 million budget. However, the vultures have been circling for Relativity and now they need to start bailing...

New on Netflix in August: The original series "Narcos," about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, starring Wagner Moura of "Elysium;" and the site's first Spanish-language original series, "Club de Cuervos," about a brother and sister who inherit a soccer team.

You'll also be able to stream the critically acclaimed film "White Dog," Best Picture Oscar winner "The Hurt Locker," the Kristin Wiig dramedy "Welcome to Me," and Simon Pegg as an assassin in "Kill Me Three Times."

There are also new episodes of "Doctor Who," "Revenge," "Once Upon a Time," "Transporter: The Series," and "GIrl Meets World." Happy binging!

Here's a full rundown of what's new on Netflix in August 2015, provided by Netflix. As always, all titles and dates are subject to change. We've also go you covered in terms of what's leaving Netflix in August 2015, in case you were wondering.​

Available August 1

"Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein" (1999)

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Time for a little mid-year check on the Where Are the Women? project, U.S. edition. (See here for the U.K. version. The numbers are almost identical.)

From January through the end of June, 2015, there have been 73 films that have had wide releases in the United States. (This list includes some films that opened at the very end of December 2014 and so had the vast majority of their runs in 2015. It also includes some awards bait that opened in limited release in late 2014 but didn’t open wide until early 2015. These figures also mostly apply to Canada, but there may have been some Canada-only wide releases that I am not aware of and don’t have access to.) These films are, in rough order of release:

Wild

Into the Woods

The Imitation Game

The Gambler

Unbroken

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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

Taken 3

Inherent Vice...

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Horrornews.net are teaming up to giveaway 2 blu-ray copies of The Woman in Black 2 – Angel of Death.

40 years after Arthur Kipps’ experience at Eel Marsh house, a group of children under the care of two women, escaping from war-torn London, arrive to the house and become the next target for the ghost of Jennette Humfrye, otherwise known as The Woman in … Continue reading →

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This week’s new Blu-ray releases include the latest direct-to-video DC animated feature, a buzzworthy horror film from 2014, a new movie from director David Cronenberg, a Preston Sturgess classic getting the Criterion treatment, and more. Click on the links below to purchase. Batman vs. Robin (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD UltraViolet Combo Pack) - $16.99 (32% off) Big Eyes (Blu-ray + UltraViolet) - $19.85 (43% off) The Babadook (Special Edition) [Deluxe Packaging] [Blu-ray] - $14.99 (50% off) Maps to the Stars (Blu-ray + Digital HD) - $14.99 (44% off) Goodbye to Language (2-Disc with 3D Blu-ray and 2D Blu-ray) - $25.29 (37% off) The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death [Blu-ray] - $19.92 (50% off) Sullivan’s Travels [Blu-ray] - $22.99 (42% off)

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Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Big Eyes (Tim Burton-directed drama about artist Margaret Keane; Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston; rated PG-13) The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (WWII-set horror sequel; Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine; rated PG-13) Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Unedited) (comedy; Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Adam Scott; unrated) Far from Men (drama; Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb; premieres 4/14 on Mod to coincide with the Tribeca Film...

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“The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death” is now available to haunt your horror film collection! The Hammer horror film is now available on Blu-ray and DVD through Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and includes the featurettes “The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death: Chilling Locations,” “Pulling Back the Veil: The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death” (Blu-ray only), a deleted scene and the theatrical trailer. To celebrate the release, Shockya was able to interview the director of the film, Tom Harper. In the interview below, Harper discusses the intriguing decision to set the film in the middle of World War II, the theme of motherhood throughout [ Read More ]

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The second week of April is a big one for horror fans, as one of the most buzzed-about indie genre films of 2014—The Babadook—is finally coming home this Tuesday courtesy of Scream Factory and IFC Midnight. There are also a multitude of classic cult titles arriving in high-def on April 14th as well, including Long Weekend, Tales of Terror, the sequels to both The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ’Em High, and Class of 1984.

Several new titles are also being released this week including Jinn, Roadside, and Echoes, and 20th Century Fox is unleashing their terror-filled sequel, The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death, on both Blu-ray and DVD.

The Babadook (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Deluxe Edition Blu-ray & DVD)

Amelia (AFI Award winner Essie Davis, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, The Slap) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband.