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‘Blair Witch’ Movie Reboot Adds Original’s Stars, Directors to Filmmaking Team (Exclusive)
Creatives from the 1999 horror sensation previously voiced frustration over not being involved in the new film version that Dylan Clark will helm for Lionsgate and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.
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‘Backrooms’: How Kane Parsons Turned YouTube Project Into “Lonely” A24 Film With 30K-Square-Foot Set
The filmmaker, who becomes the studio's youngest feature director, took to CCXP Mexico to tease his horror movie that hits theaters next month and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.
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‘The Mummy’ Filmmaker Lee Cronin Talks the Original Ending and Test Screening Mistruths
Cronin refutes a report that producer James Wan walked out of a test screening in disgust: "No, he needed to go to the bathroom. It was also the third time he'd seen the movie at that point."
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‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Review: Jack Reynor and Laia Costa Grapple With Ancient Evil and Grand Guignol Gore in Visceral Family Nightmare
The latest reinvention of the Egyptian funerary legend slaps the embalming bandages on an abducted American girl whose return home to Albuquerque is no blissful reunion.
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James Wan to Direct ‘The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil’ for Paramount (Exclusive)
The filmmaker, via Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, also joins the producer ranks for the reimagining of the Korean action crime thriller.
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A24 Horror Movie ‘Backrooms,’ Adapting Kane Parsons’ YouTube Series, Gets Ominous First Trailer
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in the feature that counts Shawn Levy and James Wan as producers.
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‘Dead By Daylight’ Movie Adaptation Lands ‘The Conjuring,’ ‘Crawl’ Combo as Writers (Exclusive)
Blumhouse-Atomic Monster has teamed with Behaviour Interactive to adapt the Canadian gaming studio's hit horror video franchise
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Horror Maestro Lee Cronin Set for an Oscar Wilde Award (Exclusive)
The Irishman, who wrote and directed ‘Evil Dead Rise’ and the upcoming new take on ‘The Mummy,’ will be honored March 12.
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James Wan Down to Direct ‘Avatar 4’ if James Cameron Decides to Step Aside
The 'Aquaman' filmmaker says he'd "love to take a crack" at the billion-dollar franchise.
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New ‘Paranormal Activity’ Movie in the Works With James Wan Joining Franchise as Producer (Exclusive)
Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Paramount are behind the eighth film in the series.
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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Director Michael Chaves Talks ‘Logan’ Influence and the Cameos That Got Away
A Taissa Farmiga cameo was on the table, reveals the filmmaker: "We were trying to get everybody who has ever been in a 'Conjuring' movie into that wedding scene, but we just couldn't."
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James Wan’s ‘Other Mommy’ Delays Release From May to October 2026
Rob Savage is directing the supernatural thriller, whose high-profile cast includes Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Arabella Olivia Clark and Dichen Lachman.
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