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Scream franchise is currently in the works with Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm.As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Scream 7 will mark Landon’s debut in the franchise, taking over from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who directed 2022’s Scream 5 and this year’s Scream VI.Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett will reportedly still be attached to the Scream 7, though only as executive producers, along with Chad Villella. Bettinelli-Olpion and Gillett reportedly stepped down from Scream 7 in order to work on an original horror film for Universal Pictures before it was halted due to the ongoing writers and actors strike in Hollywood.Scream 5 and Scream VI saw the franchise receive a soft reboot, while also acting as sequels to the original films.

The next installment in the Scream series looks to have landed a director, with Happy Death Day helmer Christopher Landon coming on to direct the sequel. Spyglass Media Group is producing the pic again and Landon will take over for Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the team known as Radio Silence that helped relaunch the franchise, directing the past two installments. They along with their partner Chad Villella will remain on as exec producers.

Scream VII is apparently very much in the works, but it’s likely going to look very different from the last two installments.

“Outer Banks” dominated this week’s Netflix Top 10 list as the Season 3 premiere kickstarted a surge in viewership across its seasons. As fans tuned in to watch Sarah, John B., JJ, Pope, Kiara and Cleo live the island life in Poguelandia, Season 3 logged 154.97 million hours viewed, making it the most viewed title this week.

Outer Banks Season 3 easily climbed to the top of Netflix‘s English-language TV charts for the week of February 20 to February 26.

In a world filled with a ton of low-budget horror films, Christopher Landon has already carved out his own niche and separated himself from the pack. With films like “Happy Death Day,” its sequel, and more recently, “Freaky,” Landon has shown himself to be a different breed of horror filmmaker, not scared of mixing comedy and heart with his vicious kills.

Michael Nordine author News of a fresh horror comedy from Christopher Landon, director of the joyously silly “Happy Death Day” and its sequel, should be greeted with cautious optimism at the very least. He’s been working in the space for some time now, having also co-written and directed “Freaky,” “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” and the more straightforward “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” and understands how to thread that particular needle better than most. His latest feels like both a natural next step and also something of a departure: a family-friendly haunted-house story releasing on Netflix. Unlike his previous efforts, however, “We Have a Ghost” fails to capture what makes this particular genre hybrid so much fun.

Todd Gilchrist editor After writing five “Paranormal Activity” movies, directing one (2014’s “The Marked Ones”), and creating inventive new mythologies with “Happy Death Day” and “Freaky,” “We Have a Ghost” is a decidedly different kind of horror project from filmmaker Christopher Landon: you know, for kids. To be more accurate, it’s for families — the kind of story that’s not just scary, but funny, and heartfelt as well, like “E.T the Extra-Terrestrial” and other Amblin movies of the 1980s. “They showed kids in peril and that the world is a dark place, but that you come out on the other side of it,” Landon tells Variety. “We Have a Ghost,” which premieres Feb. 24 on Netflix, was also made for Landon’s own family — not simply his two boys, who are slowly advancing to the age where they can start watching his more terrifying creations, but his late father, actor Michael Landon, who passed away in 1991 at age 54. Now 47, Landon talks about his latest project in the context of his relationship both as a son and as a father himself, and as his pedigree as a horror storyteller deepens, reflects on the kinds of projects he hopes to put out into the world.

The stars are stepping out for the premiere of We Have A Ghost!

David Harbour is a relative newcomer to the MCU — he debuted his role as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian in 2021's and is set to reprise the character in the upcoming team-up. So when it came time to learn everything he could about his future castmates, he turned toco-star Anthony Mackie, who had some particular advice about his franchise frenemy, Sebastian Stan, who will also be appearing in as Bucky Barnes, aka The Winter Soldier.  «Sebastian is a very nice person,» Mackie said with a grin as he and co-star Jahi Di'Allo Winston spoke with ET's Ash Crossan this week.«Don't take his quietness and standoffishness as him being mean or rude. You just have to warm him up a little bit,» he teased. «You know, give him some almond butter, talk to him a little bit.

Christopher Landon helped put Blumhouse on the map last decade thanks to his writing and directing credits on the “Paranormal Activity” and “Happy Death Day” films. Now Landon returns for his first film since 2020’s “Freaky,” a horror movie for Netflix that’s a little more family-friendly than his usual efforts.

Christopher Landon, the director of the horror movie Freaky, is slamming Hollywood studios for “day-and-date” releases amid the disappointing box office performance of Halloween Ends.

Over the weekend, Blumhouse and Universal released “Halloween Ends,” which earned more than $41 million at the box office. That’s a pretty solid opening for a film that sports a reported budget of only $30 million.

Sasha Urban editorThe “Arachnophobia” remake has (eight) legs, with Amblin Partners announcing Thursday that it has closed a deal with Christopher Landon (“Paranormal Activity”) to write and direct the horror-comedy.The original 1990 film, directed by Frank Marshall, tells the story of a small California town that is invaded by a colony of deadly South American spiders that were accidentally brought into the U.S. The film starred Jeff Daniels as a doctor who leads the effort to defeat the colony; John Goodman, as an exterminator who assists; with Julian Sands and Harley Jane Kozak in supporting roles.Steven Spielberg was credited as an executive producer on the original film, and it marked Marshall’s feature directorial debut.

oomph. (It was also the directorial debut of Marshall, one of Spielberg’s closest collaborators.)But Disney was worried about their big summer tentpole that year, “Dick Tracy.” The production was plagued with problems and beset by writer/director/star Warren Beatty’s notorious perfectionism.

Christopher Landon (Freaky) will write and direct an Arachnophobia remake for Amblin Partners, Deadline can confirm.

Joey Morgan, the actor who made his debut in 2015’s Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse and garnered additional attention for his performance in the Max Winkler’s 2017 Tribeca Film Festival premiere Flower, died yesterday at the age of 28. A cause of death has not been disclosed.

Joey Morgan, an actor best known for his breakout role in the movie Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, has died at the young age of 28.

The “Paranormal Activity” franchise is back, and this time it’s going Amish.

Anthony Mackie and David Harbour are teaming up for a new Netflix movie together!

Stranger Things' David Harbour and Captain America star Anthony Mackie have joined forces in a new Netflix movie. The duo — who are both Marvel vets now Harbour has debuted as Red Guardian in Black Widow — are among the cast to have signed up to star in We Have A Ghost, the upcoming movie from writer and director Christopher Landon.

Filmmaker Christopher Landon is seemingly interested in surprising fans with his projects. Though he started his filmmaking career with more traditionally dark horror, such as “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” his most recent projects have taken fun concepts and flipped them on their heads with the thrillers, “Happy Death Day” (and its sequel) and “Freaky.” Now, it appears he’s doing the same in “We Have a Ghost,” and he’s landed an all-star cast to help tell the story.

Anthony Mackie, David Harbour and Tig Notaro will headline a new family adventure film set at Netflix called “We Have a Ghost.” Christopher Landon, known for “Happy Death Day” and “Freaky,” will direct the film and adapt the screenplay based on a short story by Geoff Manaugh called “Ernest.” Landon will direct a cast that also includes Jahi Di’Allo Winston (“Charm City Kings,” “Queen & Slim”), Jennifer Coolidge, Erica Ash, Isabella Russo, Niles Fitch, Faith Ford and Steve Coulter.“We Have a

Angelique Jackson Anthony Mackie, David Harbour and Jahi Di’Allo Winston will star in Netflix’s upcoming family adventure “We Have a Ghost.”The movie, written and directed by Christopher Landon (“Freaky,” Happy Death Day”) also stars Tig Notaro and Jennifer Coolidge.Mackie and Harbour are both coming off of major Marvel moments, with Mackie officially assuming the mantle of Captain American in his Disney plus series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and Harbour stealing scenes in “Black

Christiane Amanpour is on the road to recovery from cancer.

Director Christopher Landon, best known for horror hit “Happy Death Day” and its sequel, is opening up about a recent health scare.

Christopher Landon, the director of the Happy Death Day movies, is opening up about being diagnosed with kidney cancer.

The big Paramount studio, through Paramount Players, will be delivering three-to-four feature titles a year to streaming service Paramount+.

The “Paranormal Activity” movies were hugely successful small-budget horror movies that got a surprising amount of mileage out of their very simple premise. Even the worst one still had something to offer for fans of the genre, so it’s not surprising that a reboot would be in the works.

The Paranormal Activity franchise is returning!

Deadline has confirmed that the next Paranormal Activity movie will be directed by Underwater director William Eubank and written by Happy Death Day filmmaker and Paranormal Activity scribe Christopher Landon. He wrote installments two through four.

Angelique Jackson Will Eubank and Chrisotpher Landon are teaming up to direct a new “Paranormal Activity” film for Paramount Players, set for release on March 4, 2022.Eubank will direct the project, described as a “new, unexpected retooling” of the highly lucrative franchise.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe horror genre loves its tropes — sets of rules that dictate survival based on stereotypes around morality, class, race, gender, and sexual preference.Much of the game in modern horror comes in examining and subverting those tropes, perhaps none so recently as notable as “Freaky,” Christopher Landon’s body-swap film that hits PVOD on Friday from Universal Pictures.Dressed up as a gory comedy, “Freaky” offers liberating and honest portraits of young women and

Sure, he’s currently celebrating the recent release of his latest horror-comedy, “Freaky,” but filmmaker Christopher Landon can’t escape the “Happy Death Day” questions. After writing and directing the first two films in the Blumhouse franchise, fans have been eagerly awaiting news about the planned third film.

With its theatrical window deal with AMC Theaters in its back pocket, Universal released the Blumhouse body-swap horror film “Freaky” in theaters this weekend, where it performed consistently with other pandemic releases with a sluggish $3.7 million opening from 2,472 screens.Directed by “Happy Death Day” creator Christopher Landon, the film stars Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton as a serial killer and a teenage girl who suddenly switch bodies.

Writer-director Christopher Landon is no stranger to the horror genre. As his new film “Freaky” arrives in theaters today, audiences best know Landon for his other recent comedic horror films.