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Disney is following in the footsteps of MGM, Universal, and Sony be delaying their Q1 releases. The King's Man, Ron's Gone Wrong, Antlers, and more have been delayed, while the highly anticipated Bob's Burgers movie has been taking off the release slate entirely. As for whether or not Marvel Studios' upcoming Black Widow movie will be delayed, that has yet to be confirmed. However, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige says that it is a real possibility.

Bob's Burgers was originally set to open in theaters this April, but it no longer has a release date. It is unclear if Disney will announce a new date, or have the movie go straight to streaming instead. The King's Man (20th) was previously slated for release on March 12th, and now moves to August 20th. The movie was originally going to open on November 15th, 2019, but was pushed back first to February 14th,...

With a new year upon us and Covid-19 vaccinations starting to make the rounds, Searchlight Pictures has announced 2021 theatrical release dates for David Bruckner's The Night House, Scott Cooper's Antlers, and Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley.

Searchlight Pictures will release The Night House on July 16th, Antlers on October 29th, and Nightmare Alley on December 3rd. Read on for additional details on all three films, as well as Michael Showalter's The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA, January 21, 2021 – Searchlight Pictures announced today the following additional films for release in theatres in 2021:

The Night House – July 16, 2021

Directed by: David Bruckner

Written by: Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski

Produced by: David S. Goyer, Keith Levine, and John Zois

Cast: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin and Vondie Curtis Hall

The Night House follows a widow (Rebecca Hall of The Town) who begins to...

Searchlight Pictures has updated its 2021 release calendar, dating Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” for December 3. The date puts del Toro’s latest in the thick of the 2021-2022 awards season. Searchlight appears to be following the same release plan it gave del Toro’s last movie, “The Shape of Water,” which started its U.S. theatrical rollout on the first weekend of December. “The Shape of Water” debuted at the Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Lion, and it seems likely “Nightmare Alley” will show up on the fall film festival circuit.

Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” is adapted by the filmmaker, and film critic Kim Morgan, from the 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name. The ensemble cast includes Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, and David Strathairn. The film originally eyed a release in 2020, but pandemic-related production delays...

With multiple promising candidates for Covid-19 vaccines inching closer to becoming a reality, much of the world is looking forward to a near-ish future marked by safe indoor family gatherings, live music, and drunken karaoke nights. But public health researchers are still concerned that some Americans, in their unwillingness to get vaccinated, will possibly endanger the rest of the public — and this fear is justified, according to two studies released this week.

A National Geographic survey of 2,201 Americans found that 69 percent of men said they would take a Covid-19 vaccine,...

NBC News on Thursday issued a strong statement of support for one of its reporters, Brandy Zadrozny, who was targeted in a segment on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.

In the segment last night, Carlson and Darren Beattie, a former speechwriter to Donald Trump, talked of Zadrozny’s reporting, accusing her of trying to “ruin” the lives of supporters of the president by seeking out identifying information of anonymous Twitter users.

“Why would NBC News be doing something like this?” Carlson asked.

Zadrozny is an investigative reporter for the network who has been reporting on misinformation and QAnon conspiracy theories, particularly on social media platforms. Last week, she wrote on a story about what she described as an online network built around the president’s claim that the presidential election will be rigged.

In a statement, NBC News said that Zadrozny “is relentlessly well-researched and sophisticated in her understanding of...

Charlie Kaufman has never exactly been renowned for his work being straightforward. After all, you don’t come up with ideas like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind without having a great deal of creativity and eccentricity in equal measure, and that’s without even mentioning Adaptation, which saw Nicolas Cage playing two fictionalized versions of the writer, director and novelist in a meta story about his failures to adapt a novel for the big screen.

Having taken an extended break after his psychological stop-motion tale Anomalisa bombed at the box office, with the movie proving to have such a limited niche audience that it couldn’t even recoup the $8 million budget in theaters despite widespread critical acclaim, Kaufman is back with the Netflix original I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

Like all of his previous output, it certainly isn’t designed to appeal to everyone, but...

The future of the Hellraiser franchise is currently in a transitional space: on the one hand, a reboot movie and HBO series are planned, but on the other, Clive Barker is now aiming to get back the rights to the source material behind the original film. While this may not happen before a new Hellraiser, it does seem that Barker’s legal case could affect whether we’ll get new approaches to the Cenobites in the reboot.

According to a video by Hellraiser fan Mr. H, the Spyglass Media take on the Cenobites could now be dependent on the timing and outcome of Barker’s lawsuit. While details still seem to be a bit uncertain, David Bruckner is attached to direct Hellraiser, with a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, and possibly a continued involvement by David Goyer. And from what Bruckner had to say about the project, the...

Fox News’ Jesse Watters made a decision to disregard the well-being of his audience on Saturday night in order to whine about unsubstantiated grievances of media “censorship” and election interference against those on the right.

Watters commiserated with his guest, the president’s son Eric Trump, over the non-issues by praising the harmful conspiracy group QAnon. Both the host and Eric framed Twitter’s recent ban of the fringe movement as a way to explain the falsity that there is a liberal media that is in cahoots with big tech...

Late last week, when #wayfair started trending on Twitter, one would have been forgiven for assuming that the hashtag was started by a medium-to-high-end household decor enthusiast. Yet the roots of the trend were much darker than that. In fact, it alluded to a conspiracy theory which began on Reddit’s r/conspiracy subreddit, according to NBC News’ Ben Collins, speculating that Wayfair was covertly using its cabinets as shipping containers for a secret child trafficking ring. The “evidence” for this theory was prices of between $12,699.99 and $14,499.99 for some of its cabinets,...

In today’s film news roundup, UTA promotes agents Chelsea McKinnies and Emerson Davis, “A Deadly Legend’ finds a home and the Black Life Film Fest is unveiled.

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United Talent Agency has promoted veteran agents Chelsea McKinnies and Emerson Davis to partner status.

“As champions of powerful and unique voices, Chelsea and Emerson have been integral to the growth and evolution of UTA,” said UTA co-president David Kramer. “It is essential our partnership is comprised of dynamic and deserving leaders, particularly as we strive for our company to better reflect the world in which we live. Chelsea and Emerson make us better as a whole and will provide leadership and inspiration to colleagues who have been underrepresented in our partnership. UTA is fortunate to have such esteemed colleagues to help lead us in these times.”

Davis is a 14-year UTA veteran and part of UTA’s Motion Picture Literary Group.

UTA has promoted Chelsea McKinnies and Emerson Davis to partner status. The two rose through the agency ranks and collectively share 25 years of experience.

McKinnies jointed UTA in 2015 and is an agent in UTA’s talent department. She began at CAA in 2008 on the reception desk in New York and was promoted to agent in 2012. Her clients include Constance Wu, Tracee Ellis Ross, Amandla Stenberg, Cynthia Erivo, Anna Faris, Aidy Bryant, Martin Lawrence, Kiersey Clemons, Michael Che, Jemaine Clement, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phillipa Soo, Adriana Ugarte, Greta Lee and Yvonne Orji. McKinnies is originally from Bloomington, Minnesota, and graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Davis is part of UTA’s Motion Picture Literary Group and a 14-year vet of the agency. He rose through the UTA mailroom, and was promoted to agent in 2010. His client roster includes Hiro Murai, Kogonada, Terence Nance, Shaka King, Gillian Robespierre...

HBO has such sights to show you... Last summer it was revealed that a Hellraiser TV series was in development with producers Roy Lee (It) and Dan Farah (Ready Player One) attached. While the series didn't have a network to call home then, it certainly does now, as Deadline reports that HBO has "made a deal" to create a Hellraiser series.

Deadline also reveals that David Gordon Green (2018's Halloween) will direct "the pilot and several more initial episodes" of the Hellraiser series, with Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty on board as writers for the new show.

Green, Verheiden, and Dougherty will also executive produce the series alongside Lee, Farah, Lawrence Kuppin, David Salzman, Rough House Pictures' Danny McBride, Jody Hill, and Brandon James, as well as Eric Gardner of Panacea Entertainment.

Rather than a remake, Deadline reports that the series will be an "...elevated continuation and expansion of the well-established Hellraiser mythology.

After years of development problems, it now appears that we’re finally getting a Hellraiser reboot, with The Ritual‘s David Bruckner behind the camera. Spyglass Media are responsible for the new picture, which is said to be a “reimagination” of Clive Barker’s 1987 original. And while reassuring any fans worried that the reboot would dilute the franchise’s graphic content, Bruckner has now confirmed on social media that he won’t be holding back.

The director had the following to say about the outpouring of support for his appointment as director for Hellraiser:

Thanks all for the Hellraiser love. Promise not to hold back.

— David Bruckner (@bruckmachina) April 11, 2020

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The filmmaker’s comment certainly ties into what we’re already hearing about the new Hellraiser, which is being...

The original Hellraiser released in 1987 didn't hold back. It still stands as one of the most shockingly gory and disturbing horror movies ever released. And its first sequel doubled down on the pain and torture. There have been a lot of sequels since. But now we're getting a true reboot of the entire franchise, and it was announced last week that David Bruckner will be directing. He has since gone on social media to promise that he won't 'hold back' when it comes to his Hellraiser reboot.

Thanks all for the Hellraiser love. Promise not to hold back.

— David Bruckner (@bruckmachina) April 11, 2020

Spyglass Media is behind this new reimagining of the Clive Barker classic, and with David's promise comes the notion that this will be one gory, pain-filled R-Rated experience for true horror hounds. It will reestablish Pinhead and the Cenobites as a true force from Hell that is not to be trifled with.

In today’s film news roundup, “Salem’s Lot” and “Hellraiser” draw directors, Tara Reid and Paul Mormando find new roles and zombie pandemic thriller “16 States” lands at Lionsgate.

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New Line has hired “It” writer Gary Dauberman to direct its adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 horror novel “Salem’s Lot” from his own script.

Dauberman made his directorial debut with New Line’s “Annabelle Comes Home,” which he wrote. In addition to both “It” films, he’s also written “Annabelle,” “Annabelle Creation” and “The Nun.”

James Wan, Roy Lee and Mark Wolper are producing “Salem’s Lot,” which is focused on writer Ben Mears returning to the Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot (shortened to Salem’s Lot), where he had lived as a boy. He discovers that the townspeople are slowly being turned into vampires.

The book was also adapted in 1979 as a miniseries starring David Soul, and a TV...

We have such sights to show you, as the Hellraiser reboot has found its director. David Bruckner had been tapped to helm the revamp of the classic horror franchise. As previously revealed, Spyglass Media has acquired the movie rights and is planning to bring Pinhead and the Cenobites back to the big screen. They are now one step closer, as the filmmaking team seems to be firmly in place.

According to a new report, David Bruckner, who previously directed Netflix's The Ritual. Bruckner has closed a deal to direct the new movie. Bruckner will re-team with screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, who he worked with on his latest movie The Night House. It was previously revealed that David S. Goyer had been hired to pen the screenplay. It's said that Goyer wrote the story and is remaining on board as a producer. This makes sense, as Goyer also...

Last year it was announced that David S. Goyer was producing and writing a “loyal, yet evolved reimagining” of Clive Barker's Hellraiser (which is based on his novella The Hellbound Heart), and now it's been revealed that David Bruckner has been summoned to direct the film, with Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski coming aboard to write the screenplay.

The latest Hellraiser news comes from The Hollywood Reporter, who reveal that Goyer is still involved as a producer (as well as Keith Levine) and is writing the story for the film, so it looks like Goyer will still have creative input on the screenplay by Collins and Piotrowski.

The new Hellraiser movie is coming from Spyglass Media, a collaboration between Gary Barber and Lantern Entertainment's Andy Mitchell and Milos Brajovic. As THR notes, Spyglass is also the company behind the upcoming Scream movie.

As previously noted by Daily Dead Editor-in-Chief Jonathan James,...

Spyglass is about to breathe new life into ol’ Pinhead, as a fresh incarnation of Hellraiser is quickly beginning to take shape behind the scenes. And we couldn’t be more excited about it.

Said to be a “reimagination” of the 1987 classic of the same name, it’s even received the blessing of the legendary Clive Barker. And though it’s still early days, the creative team is now coming together. Earlier today, Deadline brought word that the project has snagged director David Bruckner to helm, while Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski are on script duties. A solid combination of talent, then, and one that’ll surely attract a decent cast.

Speaking of which, no names in regards to actors/actresses have been announced just yet, but with the director and writers now in place, you can expect that to change soon. After all, we imagine that many Hollywood stars are already lining up,...

Spyglass’ reboot of cult horror hit Hellraiser has tapped David Bruckner to direct, Deadline has learned.

Bruckner helmed Night House which made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year. He’ll direct Hellraiser off a script by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. David Goyer, who also produced Night House, wrote the story for the new take on Hellraiser and is producing through his Phantom Four studio alongside Keith Levine. Deadline broke the news at Sundance that Night House was going to Searchlight for $12M.

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Over three decades, the Hellraiser franchise has spawned ten films, graphic novels and merchandise. The original movie was based on Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart and followed the resurrection of Frank,...

The filmmaking team behind Sundance Film Festival sensation The Night House are reuniting to tackle Spyglass Media’s reimagining of the horror classic Hellraiser.

David Bruckner, who directed Night House as well as sections of the horror anthologies V/H/S and Southbound, will helm the feature, which will have a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.

David Goyer, one of the producers of Night House, is writing the story and producing via his Phantom Four banner alongside Keith Levine.

Hellraiser was written and directed by Clive Barker, adapting his own novella, The Hellbound Heart. The 1987 movie introduced audiences to a puzzle box that opens a gateway to ...

The filmmaking team behind Sundance Film Festival sensation The Night House are reuniting to tackle Spyglass Media’s reimagining of the horror classic Hellraiser.

David Bruckner, who directed Night House as well as sections of the horror anthologies V/H/S and Southbound, will helm the feature, which will have a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.

David Goyer, one of the producers of Night House, is writing the story and producing via his Phantom Four banner alongside Keith Levine.

Hellraiser was written and directed by Clive Barker, adapting his own novella, The Hellbound Heart. The 1987 movie introduced audiences to a puzzle box that opens a gateway to ...

Vladimir Putin is up to old tricks.

Earlier this week news broke that Russia is again backing the candidacy of Donald Trump as the president seeks reelection. Now the Washington Post is reporting that U.S. intelligence believes Russia is also attempting to aid the candidacy of Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side. (Although it’s a footnote to the larger election interference story of 2016, Russian troll farms were also active on Sanders’ behalf then.)

Trump responded to the news of Russian assistance by sacking the intelligence director who allowed...

Exclusive: After winning last year’s Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for Hadestown, Rachel Chavkin is making her feature film directorial debut on Paramount’s psychological thriller Shrew’s Nest, a remake of the 2014 Juanfer Andres-Esteban Roel Spanish movie.

Set in Spain during the 1950s, Shrew’s Nest (local title Musarañas) follows an agoraphobic woman who raises her younger sister in an apartment locked away from the world. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew’s nest, and it doesn’t look like he’s leaving. The thriller is reminiscent of such Oscar-lauded pics as Misery and Black Swan. Weed Road and the Gotham Group are producing for Paramount. The script was adapted by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. Sony released Shrew’s Nest in Spain.

A NYU Tisch School of the Arts undergraduate and Mfa Columbia University grad,...

If you've listened to Corpse Club or read Daily Dead over the years, you may know that I'm not shy about sharing my eternal love for the 2008 zombified horror comedy Dance of the Dead, directed by Gregg Bishop from a screenplay by Joe Ballarini (I even had the undying pleasure of helping put together 10th anniversary screenings for the film). It's with immense pleasure and plenty of anticipation that we share the news that Bloody Disgusting and Fangoria are teaming up for Bishop's next movie, The Sisters of Samhain, which features a "rogue coven" running amok on Halloween night.

Announced by Bloody Disgusting and Deadline, The Sisters of Samhain will be directed by Bishop from a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (the writing duo behind Super Dark Times and the recent Sundance hit The Night House). According to Bloody Disgusting, the film "follows a group of friends who...

Searchlight Pictures announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights to David Bruckner’s psychological thriller The Night House following its world premiere in Park City as part of the Sundance Midnight program of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Based on an original screenplay by Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski (Stephanie), The Night House follows a widow (Rebecca Hall of The Town) who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. Bruckner returns to Sundance with this film, having most recently premiered his first solo-directorial feature, The Ritual, at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The Night House was financed and produced by Sébastien Raybaud’s company, Anton. David Goyer’s Phantom Four developed the script, and also produced. The producers are Phantom Four’s David Goyer (The Dark Knight), and Keith Levine (47 Meters Down), and Anton’s John Zois (Hotel Artemis). Executive Producers are David Bruckner, François Callens, Ben Collins,...

As Deadline first reported during Sundance, Searchlight has taken global rights to David Bruckner’s psychological thriller The Night House. A theatrical release is being planned for this year. The rights deal is in the neighborhood of $12M and continues the specialty’s label move into the genre space following its recent late summer success with Ready or Not which made $57.6M WW, and the upcoming Scott Cooper horror pic Antlers on April 17.

Based on an original screenplay by Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski, The Night House follows a widow (Rebecca Hall) who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. Pic was financed and produced by Sébastien Raybaud’s company, Anton. David Goyer’s Phantom Four developed the script, and also produced. Producers are Phantom Four’s David Goyer and Keith Levine, and Anton’s John Zois. EPs are Bruckner, François Callens, Ben Collins, Hall, George Paaswell, Luke Piotrowski,...

Exclusive: Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the hot writing duo behind $12m Sundance pic The Night House, are joining forces with genre label Fangoria on horror movie The Sisters Of Samhain. The script follows a group of friends who team up with a witch on Halloween night to prevent a rogue coven from bringing about the end of the world.

Fangoria’s owner Cinestate is financing the pic and will handle distribution. The Texas-based studio is teaming with Chicago-based media company Bloody Disgusting on the project, as well as Final Destination producers Practical Pictures and Grade A Entertainment. The latter two companies developed the script with director Gregg Bishop, who is set to helm.

As a pair, Collins and Piotrowski broke out with their 2017 indie hit Super Dark Times. Their latest feature, The Night House, starred Rebecca Hall as a widow who begins to uncover...

While summarizing The Night House before the screening at Sundance, David Bruckner offered up this thought to the audience—what is more frightening: that ghosts actually exist, or that they don’t? And as far as film introductions go, you can’t get more on point than that.

Marrying grief and the horror genre isn’t exactly new territory, but in Bruckner’s The Night House, we see it explored in a much different fashion than before, thanks to an effective and thought-provoking script from writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. At the center of the film’s story is Beth (Rebecca Hall), whose husband Owen (Evan Jonigkeit) recently killed himself and she’s left to pick up the pieces of her life without him. As Beth immerses herself in old home movies and wine to try and quell the grief that is consuming her, the widow is left unsettled...

It’s about 20 minutes into The Night House that it finds its footing. The school year has just ended and Beth (Rebecca Hall), a high school English teacher, goes back to work to input a few more assignments. When a soccer mom type (Samantha Buck) comes in to contest her son’s grades, Beth isn’t having it, to say the least. She stares her down with a trace of empathy that manages to undercut her dead eyes and Hall, ever the solid actor, pinpoints and explores the sarcastic humor latent to the script. When mom continues to press her, Beth flatly explains that her husband, Owen (Evan Jonigkeit), has just shot himself. If this woman wants her son to get a B, he can get a B. It really doesn’t matter.

The scene continues from there, but this moment is the finest representation of what the script from...

Searchlight Pictures is nearing a $12 million worldwide deal for David Bruckner’s horror film “The Night House,” an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

The film stars Rebecca Hall, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin and Sarah Goldberg, and was written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. It follows a widow (Hall) who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s secrets.

This is the first major deal out of the ground at Sundance, with some films having pre-sold before the festival. Representatives for Searchlight and Endeavor did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

Of course, Bruckner is best known for his Netflix hit horror film “The Ritual,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. His other credits include the TV series “Creepshow” and the short titled “Talk Show.”

Hall’s credits...

A knack for creepy atmospherics and individual scares goes a long way in the horror genre, and it takes “The Night House” pretty far. Though this tale of a new widow’s apparent haunting gets progressively lost in a narrative maze that’s complicated without being particularly rewarding, .

Rebecca Hall plays Beth, an upstate New York schoolteacher reeling from her husband of 14 years taking his life just a few days before we meet her. Completely blindsided by that event — particularly since as far as she knew, she was the only party in their marriage who suffered from depression — her immediate reaction is one of anger. Friends (notably Sarah Goldberg as colleague Claire) and neighbors (Vondie Curtis Hall’s Mel) offer support, but Beth fends them off, preferring to process bitter grief alone, with a drink or 10.

Yet while she may feel abandoned, she doesn’t actually feel alone, as disturbances...

Flurry of deals expected to follow as

After the traditional sluggish start to a Sundance market, a major on-site deal has livened things up as it emerged on Sunday night (26) that Searchlight Pictures was closing a deal for worldwide rights to Rebecca Hall horror film The Night House.

Sources had not confirmed the deal amount at time of writing. The Midnight selection had been on buyers’ radars heading into Park City and generated early heat following its premiere on Friday night (24).

At time of writing a growing number of titles were understood to be in play, although the overall mood...

Flurry of deals expected to follow as

After the traditional sluggish start to a Sundance market, a major on-site deal has livened things up as it emerged on Sunday night (26) that Searchlight Pictures was closing a deal for worldwide rights to Rebecca Hall horror film The Night House.

Sources had not confirmed the deal amount at time of writing. The Midnight selection had been on buyers’ radars heading into Park City and generated early heat following its premiere on Friday night (24).

At time of writing several other titles were understood to be in play, although the overall mood among buyers...

Exclusive: In the first major deal on the ground at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Searchlight Pictures is closing a worldwide rights deal for around $12 million for the David Bruckner-directed thriller The Night House, sources tell Deadline. Scripted by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the film stars Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Evan Jonigkeit, and Vondie Curtis-Hall.

Rebecca Hall plays a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. Bruckner directed the Netflix film The Ritual. David Goyer, Keith Levine, and John Zois are the producers. Pic is financed and produced by Anton, whose founder Sebastien Raybaud is executive producer.

The deal is being closed up right now by Endeavor Content and Searchlight. Attempts to reach the parties were unavailing at this late hour.

Numerous buyers have been chasing hot and heavy since it premiered Friday at the Library Theater in the Midnight Section. Deadline...

Searchlight Pictures is near to closing a deal for the worldwide rights to Sundance Midnight section title The Night House.

Rebecca Hall stars in the thriller from David Bruckner (The Ritual), playing a widow who uncovers her deceased husband's secrets.

Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski penned the screenplay for the movie, which also stars Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Evan Jonigkeit and Vondie Curtis-Hall.

David Goyer, Keith Levine, and John Zois produced the movie, with Sebastien Raybaud, Francois Callens, George Paaswell, Hall, Bruckner, Piotrowski and Collins acting as executive producers.

Endeavor Content repped the project.

The Night House deal marks the ...

Searchlight Pictures is near to closing a deal for the worldwide rights to Sundance Midnight section title The Night House.

Rebecca Hall stars in the thriller from David Bruckner (The Ritual), playing a widow who uncovers her deceased husband's secrets.

Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski penned the screenplay for the movie, which also stars Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Evan Jonigkeit and Vondie Curtis-Hall.

David Goyer, Keith Levine, and John Zois produced the movie, with Sebastien Raybaud, Francois Callens, George Paaswell, Hall, Bruckner, Piotrowski and Collins acting as executive producers.

Endeavor Content repped the project.

The Night House deal marks the ...

Once you have your first brush with Death, it can seem like it’s always calling to you from the far shore of the river Styx. After dodging a bullet or losing a loved one, you might hear Charon the ferryman whispering in your ear from time to time, beckoning you to cross over; to come back to the void; to embrace the eternal.

That’s just one of the fun thoughts that may be running through your mind during the first minutes of David Bruckner’s horror movie “The Night House,” a grief-stricken portrait of unraveling that begins with a small, empty dinghy bobbing against a dock on the shores of an idyllic New York lake. A path leads up to the beautiful home that Owen (Evan Jonigkeit) built for his wife a few years back — a house that has started to seem considerably bigger in the days since...

Since President Trump took office, Republicans have accused social media platforms of bias against conservative users. But according to a new report from Motherboard, Twitter has avoided censoring white supremacists out of fear that it could impact the accounts of Republican politicians.

The report cites a March 22nd meeting at Twitter during which it was explained to attendees that accounts like those of Arabic language broadcasters may inadvertently be flagged in the course of the platform ridding itself of Isis propaganda. Twitter hasn’t made the same commitment to rid itself of white supremacist content,...

After teaming up to write SiREN, Super Dark Times, and Stephanie, Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski will next take viewers into The Night House, a new horror thriller that will be directed by David Bruckner, and, as announced by Anton, will star Rebecca Hall in the lead role as a widow who discovers unsettling secrets about her late husband.

Press Release: Los Angeles – Anton announced today that Golden Globe® nominee Rebecca Hall will star in the horror thriller The Night House. The film will be directed by David Bruckner and based on a script written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. The Night House follows a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

David S. Goyer and Keith Levine are producing under their Phantom Four production company. Anton is fully financing, executive producing and handling worldwide sales. Harold van Lier, Anton’s President of Distribution, will...

Anton to handles sales at Efm.

Rebecca Hall is set to lead the cast of David Bruckner’s horror thriller The Night House, which UK financing and sales outfit Anton is launching at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.

Based on a script by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowsk, the film follows a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets.

David S. Goyer and Keith Levine are producing for their Phantom Four production company. Anton is fully-financing the project, handling world sales and co-representing Us rights with Endeavor Content.

The Night House...

Rebecca Hall will star in the independent horror-thriller “The Night House” from producer David S. Goyer.

The film will be directed by David Bruckner from a script written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. “The Night House” follows a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets.

Goyer, best known for penning “The Dark Knight” trilogy, and Keith Levine are producing under their Phantom Four production company. Anton is fully financing, executive producing, and handling worldwide sales. Harold van Lier, Anton’s president of distribution, will begin selling the movie at the European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival this week. Endeavor Content is co-repping the U.S. rights with Anton. The pic is scheduled to begin shooting in May.

Hall is in production on Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which is slated for a 2020 release. She is making her feature directorial debut on “Passing,...

Rebecca Hall has been set to star in The Night House, a new horror thriller being directed by David Bruckner. David S. Goyer and Keith Levine are producing via their Phantom Four, with Anton fully financing, executive producing and handling worldwide sales at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. Endeavor Content is co-repping U.S. rights with Anton.

Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski penned the script, which centers on a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. The film is set to begin shooting in May. Anton’s newly minted Evp Acquisitions & Co-Productions John Zois will oversee the project. The film is scheduled to shoot in May.

Hall is now in production on Warner Bros’ Godzilla vs. Kong, which is slated for a May 2020 release. Up next for her is Passing, which she adapted and is making her directorial debut on.

NBC News reporter Ben Collins blamed Fox News and the conservative media after a series of suspected package bombs were sent to a number of high-ranking politicians, including former President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

“There will be a rush to pin these mailbombs on extremist talking points from fringe websites like 4chan and Qanon-adjacent communities on Reddit and Facebook,” said Collins in a tweet Wednesday. “But Soros, Obama and the Clintons have been viewed as the root of all evil on talk radio and Fox News for over a decade.”

“Extremist talking points may get workshopped on fringe sites, but they’re platformed on and reach the most dupes on Fox News. Never forget that Sean Hannity was literally tying Hillary Clinton to actual Satanism three days before the 2016 election,” Collins continued, and linked to piece he wrote for the Daily Beast about how Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed the Clinton campaign “worshiped Satan.

In today’s film news roundup, Danny Boyle’s upcoming comedy has been moved forward, James Wan is producing a horror movie based on the short “Milk” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is returning to theaters.

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Universal Pictures will move its untitled Danny Boyle comedy forward three months from Sept. 13, 2019, to June 28.

Lily James, Himesh Patel and Kate McKinnon star. Boyle, who dropped out of directing the James Bond 25 movie recently, is teaming with screenwriter Richard Curtis, whose credits include “Love Actually” and “Notting Hill.” The story focuses on a struggling musician, played by Patel, and is set in the 1960s and 1970s.

Boyle and Curtis are also producing along with Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Matt Wilkinson and Bernie Bellew. Nick Angel and Lee Brazier serve as executive producers.

The film will open against Paramount’s Tiffany Haddish comedy “Limited Partners” and Fox’s untitled Ford vs.

Deadline has confirmed that Aquaman director and The Conjuring franchise maestro James Wan is producing a feature length version of the Santiago Menghini short Milk. New Line recently acquired the rights to the short which won best midnight short at SXSW last March.

Logline: On a late night, a young teen goes into the kitchen for a glass of milk. Upon encountering his sleepless mother, he quickly realizes things are not as they seem.

Menghini is directing the feature-length version off Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski’s screenplay. The duo recently penned Blumhouse’s Stephanie, which Akiva Goldsman directed. That pic made its world premiere at The Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans last spring. Menghini, who has worked extensively in VFX, originally wrote the short. Wan is producing with his Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear and Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, and Good Fear.

Hot off the success of The Nun, genre maestro James Wan has signed on to produce a feature adaptation of Santiago Menghini's horror short Milk for New Line, which has acquired rights to the short film, Collider has exclusively learned. Menghini will direct from a script by Super Dark Times scribes Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, with the director expected to retain story credit. Wan will produce alongside his Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear and Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, as well as Good Fear. Judson Scott will oversee the project on behalf of Atomic Monster. Milk has been …...

Anton Corp., the financing outfit that backed Paddington and the upcoming TV adaptation of His Dark Materials, and David S. Goyer’s Phantom Four production company have teamed for The Night House, a supernatural thriller from David Bruckner.

Bruckner, who directed a part of the well-regarded horror anthology Southbound and last helmed 2017’s The Ritual, will direct from a script written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the screenwriters behind Super Dark Times and Stephanie.

Plot details are being kept secret, but Night House is known to center on a widow who begins to uncover her deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

Goyer and Phantom Four's ...

Anton Corp., the financing outfit that backed Paddington and the upcoming TV adaptation of His Dark Materials, and David S. Goyer’s Phantom Four production company have teamed for The Night House, a supernatural thriller from David Bruckner.

Bruckner, who directed a part of the well-regarded horror anthology Southbound and last helmed 2017’s The Ritual, will direct from a script written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the screenwriters behind Super Dark Times and Stephanie.

Plot details are being kept secret, but Night House is known to center on a widow who begins to uncover her deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

Goyer and Phantom Four's ...

NBC News has hired Dylan Byers as senior media reporter, based in La. Byers will cover Silicon Valley and Hollywood, with focus on Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix and emerging players. The former media reporter for Politico and Adweek has been at CNN since 2015 where he was hired to focus on media and politics. A senior reporter, he also headlines Pacific, a CNNMoney newsletter, which CNN describes as “covering the business, culture and politics of innovation.” He appears regularly on CNN, including frequent contributions to CNN’s Sunday media program Reliable Sources. Byers starts at NBC News in September. Memo to staff from NBC News president Noah Oppenheim and MSNBC chief Phil Griffin:

We are pleased to announce that Dylan Byers is joining NBC News & MSNBC as Senior Media Reporter.

In this new role, Dylan will cover the meeting point of media, entertainment and technology – from his perch in...

President Trump was in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday night to support Rep. Ron DeSantis’ campaign for governor. As is the case with all of the president’s endorsement rallies, the appearance was less about the candidate and more about Trump’s accomplishments, those crime-loving Democrats and, of course, the dishonest media. After his speech concluded, his supporters dutifully harangued CNN’s Jim Acosta, whom Trump famously rebuffed as “fake news” during a press conference in London last month.

Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa.