• 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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  • 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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  • Vadim Perelman To Direct Poltergeist Remake From Boogeyman Scribes?

    On the newly posted After Dark show, a /Film fan wrote in detesting MGM's planned Poltergeist remake. Not only did this topic snowball into the most tasteless Heather O'Rourke/pizza joke imaginable, we also contemplated whether the project qualifies as the first remake of a Steven Spielberg movie. And if so, is Jaws within reach? The…

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  • Boogeyman Writers Hired To Remake Poltergeist?!

    I have some bad news. Not only is MGM remaking Poltergeist, but they have hired Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, the team behind the modern horror classic (sarcasm) Boogeyman to write the screenplay. Tobe Hooper's 1982 film was co-written, produced and highly supervised by Steven Spielberg, and told the story of a family's haunted home…

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