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Danny McBride and friend David Gordon Green were sitting around Rough House Pictures in South Carolina and spitballing about about improvements they might make to the movie-going experience.

Amazon MGM Studios has closed a three-year first-look film deal with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories following the rousing success of his movie on Prime Video, which was the most watched original movie for the studio ever with 50 million global viewers in the pic’s first two weeks.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Fresh off the release of “Road House,” Amazon MGM Studios has closed a three-year, first-look film deal with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories. Under the pact, Amazon MGM Studios will have first dibs on narrative features that the actor’s production company makes. The deal includes theatrical, as well as streaming releases.

J. Kim Murphy Nearly 50 years after William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” landed in theaters to leg out a run as the highest-grossing feature of 1973, a new sequel to it is opening on top of the box office. Universal’s “The Exorcist: Believer” compelled audiences to the tune of an $11.9 million opening day from 3,663 locations, a number including $2.85 million in previews.

Powerhouse horror producer Jason Blum has addressed the passing of William Friedkin, the iconic filmmaker whose 1973 classic The Exorcist is the basis for a forthcoming trilogy his company Blumhouse is producing for Universal.

Judy Greer is set as a lead opposite Ellie Kemper in ABC’s Drop-Off (working title), a comedy pilot based on the British series Motherland, from writer Julieanne Smolinski, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman Television, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate and ABC Signature. Karan Soni also stars.

“Halloween Ends” is here. And whether you think it’s ultimately satisfying, it does provide a conclusive finale for the trilogy that started in 2018 with David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” and continued with the blood-soaked sequel, 2021’s “Halloween Kills.” Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode, a part she first played in John Carpenter’s groundbreaking 1978 original, has her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the unstoppable serial killer who has haunted her for all of these years.Did good vanquish evil? Or was evil ultimately triumphant? And what if the ending you saw in theaters or on Peacock wasn’t the ending that was originally intended?TheWrap talked to co-writer/director David Gordon Green about the possible alternate endings of “Halloween Ends.”MAJOR spoiler warning for “Halloween Ends.” If you haven’t seen it yet, grab your butcher knife and head back now!During our chat about “Halloween Ends,” I brought up the premiere of “Halloween Kills,” which happened at Beyond Fest the year before.

franchise in 2018 with a direct sequel to the 1978 film, the ongoing saga between Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers comes to a close two movies later, in, which is now in theaters and streaming on Peacock. Both Curtis, who has portrayed the former babysitter stalked by the masked killer for over 40 years, and director David Gordon Green break down the climax of the 2022 film that marks Laurie and Michael’s final (and bloody) battle. Curtis “takes the physicality of this role very seriously,” Green says.

Michaela Zee editor As the “Halloween” franchise comes to a conclusion with “Halloween Ends,” director David Gordon Green is ready to reintroduce another horror classic on screen: “The Exorcist.” “We start in a couple of weeks, and we’re ready to roll up our sleeves and dive into the next great franchise,” Green told Variety senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson at the “Halloween Ends” premiere Tuesday night. “We’ve got an amazing cast coming together and scripts we’re all excited about.” Universal spent $400 million on the forthcoming “Exorcist” trilogy, produced by Blumhouse, with Ellen Burstyn set to reprise her role as Chris MacNeil, the mother who hired two Catholic priests to perform an exorcism on her demonically possessed 12-year-old (Linda Blair) in the 1973 original movie.

franchise with Jamie Lee Curtis, filmmaker David Gordon Green is turning his attention to, writing and directing a new sequel that picks up 50 years after the 1973 film starring Ellen Burstyn. And yes, Burstyn is returning to the franchise as Chris MacNeil, the mother of a demon-possessed daughter. “[We] have our spin on what for me is another iconic movie of my youth culture,” Green tells ET’s Will Marfuggi about getting to work on another classic horror franchise “in a couple of weeks.”  Joining Burstyn is two-time Oscar nominee Leslie Odom Jr., who will play the parent of a possessed child.

planned trilogy of films, which is officially titled “The Exorcist.” She joins Leslie Odom Jr. in the film with Ellen Burstyn, who is reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from the original film. Dowd’s character details were not revealed.

Wilson Chapman editorMichael Myers is back — again — this Halloween season in the first trailer for “Halloween Ends.” Universal has released the first look at director David Gordon Green’s third (and allegedly final) entry in the horror series.The first trailer dropped as a surprise Tuesday evening, with franchise star Jamie Lee Curtis announcing the release only a few minutes before it appeared online.“Laurie always says… DO AS I SAY!” Curtis wrote on Twitter.Laurie always says… DO AS I SAY!Check back here in 15 minutes for a TREAT! DO AS I SAY!— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) July 20, 2022“Halloween Ends” is the 13th installment in the “Halloween” slasher franchise, and the fourth in the chronology established by 2018’s “Halloween,” which ignored every other film from the series aside from John Carpenter’s 1978 original.The trilogy has seen Jamie Lee Curtis reprise her role as Laurie Strode, a survivor of Michael Myers’ (played by Nick Castle and stuntman James Jude Courtney) original killing spree, now a recluse struggling with PTSD. The 2018 film and the 2021 sequel “Halloween Kills” saw Laurie team up with her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) when Myers reemerges to attack Haddonfield, Ill.

John Carpenter has recently teased that “Halloween Ends” will be “a departure” from the other films in the new trilogy. One wonders what type of departure the film will take after “Halloween Kills” murdered most of its protagonists.

The night he came home — again. Michael Myers is headed back to the big screen for one last ride in the upcoming sequel Halloween Ends.

EXCLUSIVE: Lydia Leonard (the English Call My Agent remake), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg Vs. McEnroe) are leading the cast of Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson’s first English language feature Northern Comfort.

As “The Righteous Gemstones” began its Season 2 run on HBO over the weekend, you couldn’t expect its scheming televangelists to stand on ceremony. Indeed, the newest season of Danny McBride’s prosperity gospel satire moves fast to send the blaspheming, self-aggrandizing scions at the show’s center — bumptious Jesse (McBride) and his equally conceited siblings Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam Devine) — back into battle with one another and their own worst impulses.

David Gordon Green has always been one of the most eclectic, hard-to-pin-down directors we have. Staying true to form, Green is now heading from horror to family films; the “Halloween” filmmaker is ready to take a dip in the Disney pool for his next movie.

David Gordon Green has always been one of the most eclectic, hard-to-pin-down directors we have. Staying true to form, Green is now heading from horror to family films; the “Halloween” filmmaker is ready to take a dip in the Disney pool for his next movie.

After giving horror fans a solid “Halloween” installment, serving as a sequel to the original John Carpenter film with Jamie Lee Curtis playing a more seasoned and gritty incarnation of her iconic Laurie Strode role, director David Gordon Green is back with “Halloween Kills” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday.

The Garbage Pail Kids will go from trading card to screen in an animated series in the works at HBO Max.

Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Josh Bycel are developing an animated HBO Max TV series based on the iconic Garbage Pail Kids trading cards from TOPPS, the streaming service revealed Wednesday.McBride, Green and Bycel are writing and co-creating the show, which is in the development stage at the WarnerMedia-owned streaming service.Per HBO Max, the potential show “is inspired by Danny and David’s love for Garbage Pail Kids and Saturday morning cartoons and will be family-friendly for an