'Ouija: Origin Of Evil' Trailer: Evil Spirits Need Friends, Too
Set in the '60s, director Mike Flanagan's Ouija: Origin of Evil serves as a prequel to the underwhelming 2014 film. Watch the Ouija: Origin of Evil trailer.
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'Ouija: Origin Of Evil' TV Spot: Can Director Mike Flanagan Make A Good Sequel To A Bad Movie?
Universal has released an extended Ouija Origin of Evil TV spot, offering a look at the promising prequel from director Mike Flanagan.
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'Oculus' Director To Summon Spirits With 'Ouija 2'
The microbudget horror film Ouija was a profitable one for Universal, and now news has surfaced of Mike Flanagan directing Ouija 2 for the studio.
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'Ouija 2' Gets 2016 Release Date, 'Oculus' Screenwriters
Ouija 2 is definitely happening. Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard (Oculus) are writing the script and Universal has set a fall 2016 release date.
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WTF: They're Actually Making A Sequel To The Awful 'Ouija' Movie
The first Ouija was not a critical hit, but it made a lot of money for the studio so a Ouija sequel is coming. Read more about it here.
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LOL: Watch The Worst Movies Of 2014 Review Themselves
Dialogue from some of the worst films of 2014 is turned back on the movies themselves.
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IMDb's Worst Rated Movies Of 2014: From 'Tammy' To 'Saving Christmas'
Take a look at the worst (lowest) rated movies as rated year round by IMDb users. Find out which 40films rank on the IMDB worst movies of 2014 list.
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'Ouija' Trailer: "I Don't Think This Is A Good Idea"
Watch the new Ouija trailer, based on the classic board game. The story centers on a group of friends who try to contact their deceased pal.
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Short 'Ouija' Trailer Crams Horror Into One Minute
There's a little bit of new footage in this trailer for Ouija, the film that shows what happens when kids use that dangerous tool of the devil, the Ouija board, to contact dead friends. Some people use the board to craft weird and potentially embarrassing moments at parties, but the people in the film find…
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'Ouija' Trailer: When You Talk To The Dead, The Dead Talk Back
The first Ouija trailer plays into all warnings you heard about spirit boards in Sunday school, as a group of kids use one to contact malevolent spirits.
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Timekettle's X1 Makes Language Translation Effortless With AI-Driven Interpretation
At CES 2024, the SlashGear team got a sneak peek of Timekettle's X1. A language translator that uses AI-driven interpretation to make business meetings easier.
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Release Dates: Guillermo Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Everest,' 'Ouija' And Others
Universal Pictures just dated seven major upcoming releases including three in 2015. The biggest titles are Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, which will hit regular and IMAX theaters October 16, 2015 and Pitch Perfect 2, which'll be out May 15, 2015. There's also Baltasar Kormákur's star-studded Everest on February 27, 2015 and the Platinum Dunes film…
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'Ouija' Movie Moves Forward As 'Bates Motel' And 'Percy Jackson' Stars Nab Leads
There was a moment when Hollywood seemed to think that turning boardgames into movies was a brilliant idea, but so far we've heard about far more failures than successes. Battleship was a notorious disappointment (it did do better overseas than in the US), and after years of development Candyland, Monopoly, and Hungry Hungry Hippos have…
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'Knowing' Scribes To Write And Direct Universal's Low-Budget 'Ouija' Movie
Last year, Universal Pictures decided to ditch its adaptation of the Hasbro game Ouija, and for a time it looked like Paramount would be the one to make the movie. But Paramount couldn't get it off the ground either, and it was Universal itself who eventually picked it back up this past spring, albeit in…
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'Ouija' Revived At Universal After A $95 Million Budget Cut
Last August, Universal decided not to move ahead with the film version of Hasbro's board game Ouija. The film was reportedly a $100 million plus adventure in the mold of Pirates of the Caribbean, produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and directed by McG from a script by Tron: Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Universal deemed that…
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'Fright Night' Remake Screenwriter Marti Noxon Rewriting 'Ouija' And 'Tink'
Marti Noxon's most recent theatrical release, Fright Night, may not have done massive business, but it certainly hasn't hurt her. In the wake of writing Fright Night the former Buffy writer and showrunner was brought on to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by her Fright Night director Craig Gillespie, before both ended up leading the…
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Universal Says Goodbye To 'Ouija'
Back in May, a rumor broke on Twitter that Universal was halting pre-viz work and shutting down production on Ouija, the big budget, board game adventure film that was to be directed by McG and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Inquires to Universal at the time denied this rumor and we didn't run…
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'Mr. And Mrs. Smith' Screenwriter Polishing Script For 'Ouija'
Briefly: Universal and Platinum Dunes continue to develop a movie based on the Ouija board, that supernatural telegraph that is somewhere between a board game and parlor trick. Making a good movie out of Ouija will certainly a hell of a parlor trick, and to help with the process the companies have just hired Simon…
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McG's 'Ouija' Gets A New Writer
Perhaps you were hoping that the Universal collaboration with Hasbro would somehow fail to produce the Ouija Board movie that we've been promised. (Or warned of, take your pic.) But the Platinum Dunes-produced, McG-directed film is very much alive. Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz were originally on the script, but they're now…
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Producer Brad Fuller Gives Freddy, Jason, Ouija, TMNT And Monster Squad Updates
Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller has reappeared on Twitter over the weekend to offer a couple updates on future sequels of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Find out what he said, after the jump. Here is what Fuller says about a possible Friday the 13th…
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McG To Direct Hasbro's Adventure Film 'Ouija'
Right before the holidays, we reported the director's chair for the big budget adventure film Ouija was down to two directors: Breck Eisner and McG. Well, Charlie's Angels have defeated The Crazies and Universal Pictures has chosen McG to direct the film, based on the Hasbro board game, written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz…
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Exclusive Interview: Tron Legacy Screenwriters Edward Kitsis And Adam Horowitz
On November 19th, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview the screenwriters of Tron Legacy, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis. Because the interview mentions a couple potential spoilers, and delves into future continuations (the Tron animated series, Tron 3) / other future projects, I've decided to run the chat the week following release.…
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McG Vying Against Breck Eisner To Direct 'Ouija'
If one were to use a Quija board to figure out who will be directing the big budget adaptation of the popular party game, the planchette might illuminate the letters M-C-G. McG, the director of Charlie's Angels and Terminator Salvation, recently wrapped shooting This Means War with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy and pitched his…
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Universal Sets Release Dates For 'Ouija,' 'The Bourne Legacy,' 'The Dark Tower' And More
This week Universal Pictures got the urge to fill out the company's calendar for the next couple of years. Yesterday we heard that the studio has dated Judd Apatow's as-yet-untitled new film for summer 2012. Now there is a flood of new release dates for the studio, for a diverse array of films. Hit the…
Read MoreDirector Candidates For Ouija Board Movie Extend To 'The Losers' Director Sylvain White And 'Priest' Director Scott Stewart
Last week there was word that Pierre Morel, the director of District 13, Taken, and From Paris with Love, had been named as "a lead candidate" to helm Universal's Ouija, based on the Hasbro board game. Now two more filmmakers have entered the mix: Sylvain White, director of Stomp the Yard, The Losers and the…
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'Taken' Director Pierre Morel Circling Ouija Board Movie
In the months following the huge box office take of Transformers, it seemed like Hollywood was going action figure and board game crazy. It has been over two years since Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes announced they would be teaming up with Hasbro to bring the board game, Ouija Board, to the big screen…
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Ouija Board Movie Update: Not A Horror Movie, More Action-Adventure
In 2008, we heard that Platinum Dunes had the option to make a film based on the classic slumber party and devil-summoning game Ouija Board, with few details beyond the assertion that it wouldn't be like Jumanji. Now, as the release date approaches for the latest Dunes movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, producer Brad…
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