‘Invisible Man’ Director Leigh Whannel Signs First-Look Deal With Blumhouse

In an unprecedented move, Universal Pictures will make a bunch of their theatrical titles available on-demand from this coming Friday, including the box-office smash that is The Invisible Man. Recent releases The Hunt and Emma will also be available to rent in the United States and other ‘offshore markets where the titles are in release,’ so reports Deadline. The recommended price point will be $19.99 for a 48-hour rental.

The Weber family isn’t worried about the backlash. Peter Weber and his mother laughed off reports that they weren’t on good terms after season 24 of The Bachelor ended with Barbara Weber calling out Madison Prewett.

In today’s film news roundup, “The Invisible Man” hits a milestone; “Kajillionaire,” “Come Play” and “Green Rush” get release dates; and Jack Eve’s romantic drama “Open” wraps shooting.

Sony/ATV has signed a worldwide co-publishing deal with songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Ian Fitchuk, the company announced Tuesday (March 10). The agreement cover Fitchuk's future works.

The Korean box office hit rock bottom this weekend due to coronavirus that is fast spreading in the country. According to KOBIS, the box-office tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the country’s box office managed some 230,803 ticket sales between Saturday and Sunday. That is lower than the previous weekend’s 285,663 admissions and is not even half the sales managed over the weekend before that.

When Benjamin Wallfisch learned that he was going to compose the score for the 2020 reboot of “The Invisible Man,” he deliberately stayed away from rewatching the 1933 original. The goal, he says, was “to keep the sound as fresh as possible.”

One of the first conversations production designer Alex Holmes had with “The Invisible Man” director Leigh Whannell was about grounding the film in reality and treating it like a psychological thriller, rather than a horror or science-fiction movie.

The Invisible Man revamp has spooked its way to the top of the North American box office.

By Jake Kanter

LOS ANGELES -- The Elisabeth Moss-led thriller “The Invisible Man” rode a wave of good reviews to a very visible spot atop the box office this weekend. Universal Pictures on Sunday estimated that the film from writer-director Leigh Whannell earned $29 million from North American theaters. Internationally, it picked up an additional $20.2 million.

By Nancy Tartaglione

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By Bruce Haring

You might say that many moviegoers "saw" Leigh Whannell and Elisabeth Moss' The Invisible Man in theaters yesterday. The Dark Universe may be dead, but Universal’s monster mash is alive and well thanks to some old-fashioned showmanship.

In 2018, director Leigh Whannell met with Universal Pictures executives, thinking that they wanted to talk about another project. Instead, they brought up a surprising idea, to reinvent H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” as a stand-alone thriller targeted to a new generation. 

Elisabeth Moss had a hands-on role in editing her new flick The Invisible Man to ensure the movie did right by the female point of view.

Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia Kass in “The Invisible Man,” written and directed by Leigh Whannell