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Horror Filmmaker Gary Dauberman Signs First-Look Deal with Screen Gems, Sony Pictures (Exclusive)
Screen Gems and Sony Pictures are betting big on horror and placing their chips on one of the genre’s big names. The divisions have signed Gary Dauberman — the multi-hyphenate who has been involved in some of the biggest horror franchises of the past decade, including It, Annabelle and The Nun — to a first-look […]
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‘Smile’ Filmmaker Parker Finn Launches Genre Production Banner Bad Feeling (Exclusive)
Parker Finn, the filmmaker behind horror hit Smile, has launched Bad Feeling, a film and television production company, with Jonathan Fass named as the banner’s head of development. The company will be based at Paramount, the studio that released Smile and with whom Finn signed a first-look deal earlier this year. Bad Feeling has a […]
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Hot Horror Package ‘He’ll Come Knocking’ Lands at Paramount (Exclusive)
Paramount, the studio whose Scream VI is currently scaring up the box office, continues to bet on horror, picking up spec package He’ll Come Knocking. Patrick Brice, who last directed the thriller There’s Someone Inside Your House, is on board to direct the feature project, which is written by Jordan Goldberg and Alex Paraskevas. Marty […]
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‘Smile’ Filmmaker Parker Finn Signs First-Look Deal With Paramount (Exclusive)
Parker Finn, the filmmaker behind 2022’s biggest horror hit, Smile, has signed a multiyear, first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. Paramount distributed Smile, which Finn wrote and directed, with the movie grossing over $216 million worldwide. Among the movie’s distinctions, other than creeping people out with scary smiles, was being the first original horror title to hold […]
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Berlin: ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ YA Horror From ‘Smile’ Producers Sells Out for Protagonist (Exclusive)
Buyers have flocked to Clown in a Cornfield, the upcoming young-adult slasher thriller from Temple Hill Entertainment, the production company behind box office smash Smile. Protagonist Pictures has sold out all international territories on the film, set to be directed by Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil) and adapted by Carter Blanchard from Adam […]
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Debut Directors of ‘Smile’ and ‘Causeway’ Compete for a DGA Honor
Eric Appel (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) Famous parody musician “Weird Al” Yankovic co-wrote the script of his own satirical biopic, which stars Daniel Radcliffe in the title role. Appel’s film charts Yankovic’s rise to fame as well as his fictionalized relationship with Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood). Elegance Bratton (The Inspection) Bratton’s first narrative feature […]
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The Best Horror Movies of 2022
This year has been frightfully good for horror. As the box office recovers, 2022 continued to make it clear that the thing audiences are guaranteed to show up for, outside of Marvel movies, is horror movies. Some of the year’s biggest success stories, hottest new directors, and studio overhauls emerged from the horror business. From […]
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How Parker Finn’s ‘Smile’ Went From Streaming to Theatrical in a Single Night
[This story contains spoilers for Smile.] Nobody is smiling more than filmmaker Parker Finn these days. Finn knows full well that his feature directorial debut, Smile, has had a charmed run. Originally green lit to be a Paramount+ exclusive, the Sosie Bacon-led horror movie about a curse that reveals itself in the form of a […]
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Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Tops Another Slow Weekend With $18.5M Before ‘Black Panther 2’ Arrives
DC and Warner Bros.’ Black Adam stayed atop the weekend box office chart in its third outing with an estimated $18.5 million from 3,985 theaters for a domestic tally of $137.4 million through Sunday. Globally, the pic has jumped the $300 million mark. Black Adam also dominated overseas, earning another $25.4 million from 76 markets […]
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Kevin Bacon Reacts to Daughter Sosie Bacon’s ‘Smile’ Success: “We Have a Horror Tradition in Our Family”
If you can’t beat ’em, the old saying goes, join ’em. In Kevin Bacon’s case, that meant accepting the fact that Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — the party game that requires you to link every known actor to Bacon in six movies or less — was never going away. So he embraced the phenomenon and […]
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Box Office Upset: ‘Smile’ Bites Off Big $17.6M as ‘Amsterdam’ Bombs and ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ Limps
Paramount is grinning widely this weekend as its creepy pic, Smile, continued to stay atop the chart in its sophomore outing with a projected gross of $17.6 million from 3,659 theaters. That’s a decline of just 22 percent, one of the best holds of all time for the horror genre. The news was just as […]
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‘Smile’ Star Sosie Bacon Discusses the Horror Hit’s Wild Ending
[The following story contains spoilers for Smile.] Smile may have been a nightmare for Sosie Bacon’s character, but the experience has been a dream come true for the actor. The Parker Finn-directed horror film was not only Bacon’s first time atop the call sheet, but it was also her first number-one film at the domestic […]
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