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  • Aaron Eckhart to lead Blumhouse & WWE thriller Incarnate

    Aaron Eckhart to lead Blumhouse & WWE thriller Incarnate

    MUMBAI: Aaron Eckhart will star in small-budget thriller Incarnate from Blumhouse Productions and WWE Studios. The movie directed by Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) follows an exorcist (Eckhart) who taps into the subconscious of a possessed nine-year old boy (David Mazouz).

     

    Dark Tide scribe Ronnie Christensen penned the screenplay and Universal will distribute stateside. The latest co-production between Blumhouse and WWE Studios will also feature a cameo by WWE star Mark Henry. Jason Blum will produce for Blumhouse. WWE Studios’ Michael Luisi will be executive producer with Couper Samuelson, Michael Seitzman, Trevor Engelson, Stuart Ford, and Charles Layton.

     

    Blumhouse International is selling foreign rights. WWE Studios’ Bradley Buchanan negotiated the deal. Eckhart is repped by CAA.

  • Gregory Plotkin to direct Paranormal Activity 5

    Gregory Plotkin to direct Paranormal Activity 5

    Mumbai: Gregory Plotkin, who served as the editor and co-producer of the last three paranormal activity movies, is all set to have his directorial debut with the fifth installment of the popular horror series.

     

    He has also worked on another movie called ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked ones’, due to release in January next year.

     

    With a long list of credits as an editor or assistant editor on films such as ‘The Insider’ and ‘The Break-up’, he now gets to be a lead behind the camera.

     

    The story is being written by Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman. Plotkin is repped by WME and Circle of Confusion. Jason Blum and Oren Peli are producers.

  • Jason Blum plans a sequel to ‘The Purge’ following its BO success

    Jason Blum plans a sequel to ‘The Purge’ following its BO success

    MUMBAI: Following the massive success of the horror-thriller movie The Purge, producer Jason Blum and Universal Studios have announced they are planning a sequel for the movie.

    However, who would helm the director‘s chair for the sequel and the cast remains uncertain.
     
    The Purge was written and directed by James DeMonaco, but his association with the sequel in the same capacity remains unclear as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
     
    The home invasion horror movie starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey with a budget of not over three million dollars, raked in a whopping $36.4 million in its opening weekend grossing to the top over the weekend.
     
    While the movie‘s end is left with a potential for a sequel considering the story which is set in a society where once a year, there‘s a 12-hour period when all crime is allowed and condoned.

  • Paramount Pictures locks 25 October 2013 as release date of next Paranormal Activity film

    Paramount Pictures locks 25 October 2013 as release date of next Paranormal Activity film

    MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures will release the fifth instalment of Paranormal Activity on 25 October next year, it is understood. It will be directed by Jason Blum.
    While Paranormal Activity 4 has been recorded to be the lowest-grossing film of the series both domestically and internationally, the film still was able to rope in $53.4 million domestically and $134.4 million worldwide. The film had cost $5 million to produce.
    A spinoff of the franchise, geared toward the Hispanic audience, is also in the works.

  • Universal and Jason Blum to make fantasy horror film Mercy

    Universal and Jason Blum to make fantasy horror film Mercy

    MUMBAI: Universal Pictures and Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse Productions have joined hands for the making of the fantasy-horror tale Mercy, which has been adapted from Stephen King‘s short story Gramma.
    The tale, which King first published in 1984 in Wierdbook magazine and which was then published in his 1985 short story collection Skeleton Key, concerns a mother, played by O‘Connor, with two young sons who come to discover their ailing grandmother, Mercy, is a witch.
    The film, that will star Frances O‘Connor, of British origin will be directed by Peter Cornwell from a script by Matt Greenberg. O‘Connor, had earlier appeared in A.I. Artificial Intelligence and in The Hunter recently.
    Cornwell had earlier directed 2009‘s The Haunting in Connecticut.

  • Paranormal Activity 4 to release on October 19

    Paranormal Activity 4 to release on October 19

    The Paranormal franchise has been a sizable success for the studio and producers Jason Blum, Oren Peli and Steven Schneider (who shifted to a producer role on Paranormal 3 after executive producing the first two films).

    The first Paranormal, which cost $15,000 to produce and opened in a limited run in September 2009, went on to gross $193.4 million worldwide. Paranormal 2 cost $3 million to produce and grossed $177.5 million worldwide.

    Released Oct. 21, Paranormal 3 opened to a massive $54 million in the U.S. (the top horror launch ever) and grossed $202.2 million worldwide — besting the first two films, an unusual feat for a franchise‘s third outing. The projects are made on shoestring budgets; Paranormal 3 cost $5 million to produce.

    But unlike 2011, when Paramount faced no direct competition, there‘s a horror movie set to release on October 26 in the form of Dimension Films‘ Halloween 3D.