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Lionsgate’s Blair Witch reboot keeps moving without Heather Donahue after she passed on terms tied to rights, future identity/voice tech use and compensation. Jason Blum and James Wan have Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez and Gregg Hale attached as exec producers; the film is targeting theaters next year.
Markiplier’s Iron Lung used 79,800 gallons of blood on set, setting a new horror production record while the $3 million videogame adaptation has reached $51.2 million to date. The breakout underlines how low-budget genre IP can still generate outsized theatrical returns.
Little One adds Mark O’Brien, Elias Koteas, Carmen Christopher and Jamie McShane to its cast as Alex Kavutskiy’s feature debut moves toward a Los Angeles shoot this month. Zach Cregger and Roy Lee are producing, with Hammerstone Studios financing the horror-comedy package.
$10M Spanish-language sci-fi creature feature Pacifico sets a world premiere at BIFAN; Gonzalo Gutiérrez's island-survival horror play arrives via FilmSharks, with the cast and international buyers to be unveiled around the launch.
WME has signed horror scribe Chris Thomas Devlin as his profile spikes on Lionsgate and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s Blair Witch Project reimagining; he’s also developing original survival-horror feature Doomtown under Divide/Conquer’s first-look with Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.
Chicago’s summer slate includes Disney Channel’s live-action The Last Kids on Earth pilot, set to start July 13, and Herbert West: Reanimator moving toward an Alton shoot through Woodlake Entertainment. The local production pipeline also flags an HBO Max pilot, but the horror hook is the Lovecraft re-adaptation.
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