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Blumhouse series Scarpetta adds Tiya Sircar, Anna Diop, Graham Phillips and Georgia King

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Deadline reports Amazon’s upcoming series Scarpetta from Blumhouse has filled out several recurring roles for its new series. Joining Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are Tiya Sircar (Star Wars Rebels), Anna Diop (Titans), Graham Phillips (The Bygone) and Georgia King (Vice Principals). Based on Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling book series, Scarpetta will focus on “Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), […]

Unleash the beast inside with new Wolf Man trailer

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Wolf Man is a classic story told throughout generations, but this latest version could be the scariest yet. Christopher Abbott is about to wolf out with his beastly new role in Leigh Whannell’s (The Invisible Man) modern reimagining of the classic 1941 Universal Monsters movie.  Joining Abbott in the cast are Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, […]

Wolf Man trailer teases Blumhouse’s latest Universal Monsters reimagining

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Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have debuted the first trailer for Wolf Man, writer-director Leigh Whannell’s (The Invisible Man) modern reimagining of the classic 1941 Universal Monsters movie which teases Christopher Abbott’s transformation into the titular lycanthrope. Joining Abbott in the cast are Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast and Benedict Hardie; watch the […]

The Boys’ Claudia Doumit cast in M3GAN spin-off SOULM8TE

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The M3GAN spin-off SOULM8TE has cast The Boys alum Claudia Doumit for the next installment of Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s horror franchise. SOULM8TE stars Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise) and David Rysdahl (Fargo) with Doumit. The spin-off will see “a man (Rysdahl) acquire an Artificially Intelligent android (Sullivan) to help him cope with the recent loss of his deceased wife. In […]

Paul Feig to direct Worst Roommate Ever for Blumhouse

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Paul Feig has landed his next directorial gig, and he’s teaming with Blumhouse for Worst Roommate Ever. The Hollywood Reporter confirms it will be a big-screen adaptation of the Netflix unscripted series of the same name. Worst Roommate Ever follows a newly single woman finding a seemingly perfect gentleman to sublet the spare room in […]

Mike Flanagan to direct a “radical new take” on The Exorcist

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Blumhouse and Universal Pictures have confirmed that Mike Flanagan has been ordained as the writer and director of a “radical new take” on The Exorcist.  It had been previously reported that the Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor director was in talks to resurrect the fortunes of the flailing franchise following David […]

Mike Flanagan tapped to direct next installment of Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ Exorcist reboot trilogy

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Blumhouse and Universal Pictures are summoning horror maestro Mike Flanagan in order to try and resurrect the fortunes of their ambitious and expensive Exorcist reboot series. Deadline reports that the Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor director is in talks to take the clerical collar from The Exorcist: Believer‘s David Gordon Green, who […]

Speak No Evil: James McAvoy stars in unsettling first trailer for horror remake

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Universal and Blumhouse have dropped the unsettling first trailer for their James Watkins (Eden Lake) directed horror film Speak No Evil, which sees Split‘s James McAvoy once again tapping into his darker side to terrorise an unsuspecting family.  Based on the screenplay of 2020’s Danish psychological horror thriller Gæsterne by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup, […]