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Warner Bros. has acquired Rachel Kushner's 'Creation Lake' for Maggie Gyllenhaal to develop, produce and direct; the spy-thriller follow-up keeps the studio in business with her after 'The Bride!' flopped to $24 million worldwide.
Paul Anthony Kelly has boarded Lionsgate’s The Housemaid’s Secret opposite Sydney Sweeney and Kirsten Dunst as the sequel heads toward production later this year. Lionsgate is leveraging Freida McFadden’s 12M-unit thriller trilogy after The Housemaid topped $400M worldwide.
Apple TV orders a second season of horror-comedy Widow’s Bay and locks creator Katie Dippold to a multiyear overall deal. The streamer keeps the cursed-town series in-house while Dippold stays on as showrunner and develops new projects.
$4.2M Monday on day 25 pushed Obsession to a $234.5M worldwide cume; Focus paid around $15M for the $750K horror breakout, and Curry Barker is already being courted for his next move.
$6.5M in Thursday previews for Universal’s original alien thriller after a $115M production budget and $80M in marketing; the Spielberg tentpole is tracking to a $35M domestic opening and would need roughly $300M global to turn profit.
Netflix and Toho launch an eight-episode reboot of Toho's 1960 The Human Vapor on July 2; Yeon Sang-ho and Shinzo Katayama rework the IP as a sci-fi thriller for worldwide streaming.
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