‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ director Mike Flanagan to helm “radical new take” on ‘The Exorcist’

Universal has set its new Exorcist movie from Doctor Sleep helmer Mike Flanagan on an appropriate date. The pic from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek will attack theaters on Friday the 13th — March 13, 2026.

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The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday announced the first six titles set to make their world premieres at the 49th edition, in the Gala and Special Presentation program, also naming this year’s TIFF Tribute Award recipients.

The Numbers reported.A sequel to 2015’s “Inside Out,” it chronicles a teenager’s journey with four new emotions — Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment, which are all also animated characters in the movie. The Post called the film “nice, but not as good as the original.”It is projected to enjoy an up to $100 million domestic opening weekend, which could make it the highest grossing movie of 2024 so far, according to Forbes.“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” which was No.

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the recently-combined genre giants, will produce a new film from “Evil Dead Rise” director Lee Cronin at New Line Cinema.Cronin will write and direct the top secret project, one that has been suggested will remain in his horror wheelhouse. The Irish filmmaker will also produce the project through his label Doppelgängers.New Line, a Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group label, has dated the film for an April 2026 release.

28 Years Later will be set in Newcastle, and lead star Jodie Comer has revealed she’s studying Cheryl‘s accent in preparation for her role.Comer will star alongside Cillian Murphy, Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack O’Connell in the third instalment of Danny Boyle‘s zombie apocalypse trilogy, which reportedly began filming in Newcastle last month.Now, in a new profile piece for ELLE, Comer has revealed that she’s been watching clips of Cheryl on The X-Factor in order the grasp the Geordie accent.“I’m excited to get the first day done,’ she said, ahead or shooting her scenes. “Danny just seems like such a confident, intuitive and intelligent director.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For his new “Honeymind” album, singer and actor Ben Platt brought in an especially honeyed voice as a counterpart on one song, Brandy Clark. He had written “Treehouse” in a writing session with Clark well before the album was being put together, and then he and producer Dave Cobb had the eureka (or as Platt puts it, “duh”) moment of realizing just how much more haunting it might sound as a duet with the co-writer, whose chops obviously don’t begin and end with songwriting prowess.

Selome Hailu A new series based on John Grisham’s 1995 novel “The Rainmaker” and the 1997 film adaptation has been greenlit at the USA Network. Grisham serves as executive producer on the series alongside Jason Blum, while Blumhouse Television and Lionsgate Television serve as the studios. The official logline reads, “Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend.

Andy Cohen claims he know the identity of the anonymous cast member who gave a quote to a recent New York magazine article about him.

Helen Flanagan and Ella Morgan have shared a sneak peek behind the scenes of the new Celebs Go Dating series.The Corrie actress has posted a video of herself and MAFS star Ella playing around and posing the the camera. In the video, Ella is seen crawling on the floor, wearing a latex catsuit, and Helen slaps her bum.

Famous horror film and TV studio Blumhouse, which has released a slew of cult hits such as Paranormal Activity, The Black Phone, M3GAN and Five Nights at Freddy’s, is finally ready to stake its claim in the video game space after the studio’s announcement of its new games division last year.

Lorde has praised Charli XCX‘s new album ‘Brat’ amid rumours that one of the featured songs is about her.Charli released her sixth studio effort today (June 7), following on from 2022’s ‘Crash’. In a four-star review, NME said that the singer “fully commits to the dancefloor” with the project.“These heady songs also see XCX at her most raw, smuggling the reflections that spill out in the early hours of the morning through the guise of club bangers,” it added.Taking to Instagram Stories, Lorde expressed her admiration for the record and Charli as an artist.“The only album I’ve ever presaved is out today.

Well, it’s official: after starting talks with Blumhouse earlier this month, Mike Flanagan will write, direct, and produce the studio’s next “Exorcist” film.  But Deadline reports that the project isn’t a sequel to “The Exorcist: Believer” anymore.  Instead, Flanagan will helm “a radical new take” on the horror series for Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, effectively starting the franchise over.

Exorcist film is in the works with horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan tapped to direct.Per a report by Deadline Hollywood, horror filmhouse Blumhouse has confirmed that Flanagan will lead a new entry in the Exorcist universe, telling an entirely new story. It has also confirmed that the movie will not be tied to last year’s The Exorcist: Believer from director David Gordon Green.In a press statement announcing Flanagan’s attachment to the next Exorcist film, Blumhouse promised that the director’s movie will be a “radical new take” on the horror franchise that has spanned nearly five decades.So excited we can finally confirm this! https://t.co/Z27QUv5wI1— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) May 30, 2024Flanagan – best known for Doctor Sleep and his acclaimed Netflix projects The Haunting Of Hill House, Midnight Mass and The Fall of the House of Usher – will also write and produce the currently untitled Exorcist film.The news comes after David Gordon Green exited the Exorcist franchise earlier this year due to last year’s Believer poor performance at the box office.

Selena Kuznikov Netflix has released the teaser trailer for the fourth and final season of its superhero series “The Umbrella Academy.” The footage, set to the tune of Europe’s 1986 song “The Final Countdown,” sees the Hargreeves siblings stepping out of their regular lives, prepping to band together one last time. Based on the graphic novel series written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, the beloved series follows a family of adopted siblings with superpowers working to prevent the end of the world. This season, the Hargreeves are confronted with a new trial: living a normal life.

The Exorcist universe is expanding.

Blumhouse has made official that which is already out there: Doctor Sleep filmmaker Mike Flanagan is writing, directing and producing “a radical new take” on The Exorcist in a new film with the genre producer and Morgan Creek. 

Wu-Tang Clan, is set to be played to the public for the first time at an art gallery in Tasmania.The record in question is the New York group’s seventh studio effort ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’, for which they released only one physical copy in 2014.The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart has acquired the album on loan from the digital art collective Pleasr (via The Guardian). And it is due to feature in the ‘Namedropping’ exhibition, which will centre on status, celebrity and notoriety.Recorded in secret between 2006 and 2013, the project became the most valuable album ever made, and reportedly features contributions from all surviving members of Wu-Tang Clan, as well as two guest appearances from Cher.

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