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Recently we’ve learned that Mike Flanagan is developing a TV series based on Stephen King’s novel Carrie at Amazon MGM Studios. The series is a fresh take on the story of Carrie White, a shy high school girl who lives with her controlling mother. After her father dies, Carrie faces bullying at school, a scandal that shocks her town, and the discovery of her powerful telekinetic abilities.

Flanagan will write, executive produce, and be the showrunner for the series, with Trevor Macy also serving as an executive producer. Melinda Nishioka will manage the project for Intrepid Pictures.

In his latest interview with MovieWeb, Flanagan explained how he got the rights for the show despite making “substantial” changes to the source material.

Flanagan said that when Amazon first asked him about adapting Carrie, his initial reaction was to question why it needed to be done again since it had...

Filmmaker Mike Flanagan believes that “Physical media is critical,” which is not a belief that was shared by his former employers at the Netflix streaming service. Flanagan recently said that he tried very hard to get Netflix to release the work he did for them on Blu-ray and DVD, but they “refused at every turn.” But while several Flanagan projects remain on Netflix and aren’t available on physical media, he did confirm earlier this year that he has taken his 2016 film Hush away from the streaming service so he can give it a long-awaited physical media release. The 4K Uhd and Blu-ray release is coming from Scream Factory on November 26th (copies are available for purchase at This Link) – and they have just revealed that this physical media release of the movie is going to be packed with extras!

Hush has the following synopsis: After losing her hearing as a teenager,...

Stephen King has brought us some of the best horror novels, and there have been some great adaptations of them. When it comes to Carrie, it’s all about the 1976 movie. Well, it could soon be all about the upcoming TV series on Prime Video.

Yes, Carrie is getting another adaptation. The Haunting of Hill House writer and director Mike Flanagan is behind the series. This gives us hope with the creation of that series based on the novel of the same name and the creation of The Midnight Club.

What to expect in this Carrie adaptation

Flanagan will serve as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, with his business partner Trevor Macy joining as an executive producer, according to TVLine. There will be eight episodes to the series, which is similar to Flanagan’s Netflix projects.

The series will be a timely retelling of the story. Carrie White has spent...

Mike Flanagan with Rebecca Ferguson from Doctor Sleep – now adapting the Stephen King novel, Carrie [Image @flanaganfilm on Instagram]

Mike Flanagan is renowned for his horror TV shows and is once again teaming up with Stephen King for an adaptation of Carrie.

Carrie was Stephen King’s first published book and nearly didn’t happen. However, after he threw it into the garbage, his lovely wife, Tabitha King, rescued it and encouraged him to publish the terrifying book. Of course, there have been many more King books published, and while may be in the past, horror maestro Mike Flanagan is returning to Stephen King’s world to adapt Carrie as a series on the small screen.

Mike Flanagan to adapt Stephen King’s Carrie as an Amazon TV series

Admittedly, Stephen King fans will feel a little trepidation over the adaptation of the author’s popular book, as many have not done his work justice.

When Mike Flanagan and Stephen King join forces, it’s game over for their competitors in the horror film universe. Over the years, the legendary author and the veteran filmmaker have worked on a couple of projects that have received incredible ratings from critics. But Flanagan clearly isn’t done with bringing out on-screen adaptations of King’s stories.

Mike Flanagan | Credits: @flanaganfilm via Instagram

The 46-year-old filmmaker has already produced a few critically acclaimed series like The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. The word on the street is that Flanagan’s next series will feature a classic Stephen King story that has already seen box office success, twice!

Mike Flanagan is currently laying the groundwork for an adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie Mike Flanagan and the cast of The Fall of the House of Usher...

One of horror's most famous and influential stories is receiving its most significant adaptation in years, and we couldn't possibly think of anyone more suited for the task. Mike Flanagan has made a career out of taking prolific author Stephen King's written words and spinning them into live-action gold, from 2017's "Gerald's Game" all the way to his well-received prequel to "The Shining" with "Doctor Sleep" in 2019. Along the way, Flanagan has also built himself a veritable television empire, debuting multiple spine-tingling limited series for Netflix in the span of just a few years. This latest news brings together the best of both worlds, as Deadline reports that Flanagan is setting his sights on a series adaptation of "Carrie" -- the very first (and arguably most daunting) of all of King's works.

According to the report, Flanagan will be spearheading an 8-episode series for Prime Video that will attempt...

Mike Flanagan has his sights set on another classic piece of IP: “Carrie.”

The “Doctor Sleep” and “Exorcist” filmmaker is adapting Stephen King’s novel for an eight-episode series at Prime Video, IndieWire has confirmed. King’s “Carrie” was first brought to the screen by Brian De Palma in 1976. There was a sequel film, “The Rage: Carrie 2” (1999), and a 2013 remake of the original “Carrie” starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.

“Carrie” centers on a teenager who has a sheltered life in part due to her controlling mother. Yet the titular Carrie soon realizes that the torment she has endured both at home and at school with her bullying peers has heightened her hyperkinetic powers, and a revenge plan is brewed….

The official logline for the series teased that the show will be a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent...

Mike Flanagan has lined up his next project at Prime Video: The Haunting of Hill House writer/director is developing a TV adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel “Carrie,” TVLine has confirmed.

Flanagan’s version is said to be “a bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother,” according to its official description. “After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public high school, a bullying scandal that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.

Stephen King’s Carrie is getting another adaptation — this time in series form.

Amazon MGM Studios is developing a drama based on King’s 1974 novel, which has been the basis for four previous feature films. Mike Flanagan (Netflix’s The Haunting anthology, Doctor Sleep) is adapting the book and will serve as showrunner, executive producing with Trevor Macy of Intrepid Pictures. (Flanagan and Intrepid have overall deals at Amazon MGM Studios.)

Should it go forward, Carrie would stream on Amazon’s Prime Video.

Flanagan has adapted several of King’s works in the past, most recently The Life of Chuck, which won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. He also wrote the screenplays for The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game (the latter with Jeff Howard). He and Macy also have rights to King’s Dark Tower novels.

Amazon MGM Studios describes the project as a...

Carrie, the subject of author Stephen King’s first published novel and one of the greatest female icons in the horror genre, is coming back – and this time Mike Flanagan will be the one taking her to prom. Deadline reports that Flanagan is working with King to turn the story of Carrie into an eight episode series that will be released through Amazon’s Prime Video service. Flanagan will be executive producing the series with Trevor Macy. Deadline notes, “They’re opening a writer’s room, so this one’s happening quickly.”

Flanagan has previously directed film adaptations of the King novels Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. His upcoming film The Life of Chuck is another King adaptation – and he’s also known to be developing the author’s Dark Tower saga as a Prime Video series.

Published in 1974, King’s novel Carrie served as the inspiration for the classic...

Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are partnering on a new project — an eight-episode adaptation of King’s beloved novel, “Carrie.” The series will go to Amazon, TheWrap has learned.

Flanagan will serve as the showrunner, writer and executive producer of the upcoming series with Trevor Macy also attached as an EP. Melinda Nishioka will oversee the project for Intrepid Pictures.

The series is being described as “a bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White.”

Flanagan and King have already proven that they can make some spooky magic together. Based on the 2020 novella of the same name, “The Life of Chuck” was well-received at TIFF, winning the People’s Choice Award. The film starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Jacob Tremblay will be released in the United States by Neon in 2025.

It’s a fitting collaboration between these literary and television masters of horror.

Mike Flanagan is headed back into the world of Stephen King with a brand new small screen adaptation of King’s classic novel Carrie for Amazon, Deadline reports this morning.

The plan? An eight-episode television series adaptation of the iconic horror tale.

Deadline recaps, “The 1974 novel put the young author King on the map, and also bolstered his worth as an author whose genre storytelling was most translatable to the big screen in 1976. Brian De Palma was the first director to adapt King’s coming of age story. Several follow-ups came later, including The Rage: Carrie 2, a 2002 telepic, and a 2013 remake.”

Previous filmmakers to tackle the story for screens big and small include the aforementioned Brian De Palma as well as Katt Shea, David Carson & Bryan Fuller, and Kimberly Peirce, with the titular role being played by Sissy Spacek, Angela Bettis, and Chloe Grace Moretz.

In Carrie, “a friendless...

Mike Flanagan, fresh off a successful run at the Toronto Film Festival with ‘The Life of Chuck,’ is not slowing down. According to Deadline, he’s teaming up again with Stephen King to transform the iconic novel ‘Carrie’ into an 8-episode series for Amazon.

This project marks another significant collaboration between the seasoned director and the celebrated author.

‘Carrie’ was King’s breakout novel back in 1974, capturing the struggles of a sheltered young girl with destructive powers triggered by her oppressive upbringing and high school bullying.

The book’s first adaptation came two years later, a film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. It set the standard for numerous adaptations that followed, including a 2002 TV movie and a 2013 film featuring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.

This new series isn’t the only King adaptation extending beyond the typical movie format. A24 has embarked on turning ‘Fairy Tale’ into a series,...

A series adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Carrie” from horror maven Mike Flanagan is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned.

The series logline describes it as a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public High School, a bullying scandal that shatters her community, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”

Flanagan will write and executive produce the potential series with Intrepid Picture’s Trevor Macy also serving as an executive producer. Flanagan will also serve as showrunner. Melinda Nishioka will oversee the project for Intrepid. Flanagan is currently under an overall deal with Amazon MGM Studios.

Flanagan has become of the most influential voices in the horror genre in recent years. He...

Exclusive: After scoring the big deal at the Toronto Film Festival with Neon for TIFF’s People’s Choice Award winner The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are right back at it. The Dish hears their next collaboration will be Carrie, this time in an eight-episode series for Amazon. Flanagan will be the showrunner.

The 1974 novel put the young author King on the map, and also bolstered his worth as an author whose genre storytelling was most translatable to the big screen. Brian De Palma was the first director to adapt King’s coming-of-age story of a young sheltered girl with a domineering mother whose bullying caused unimaginable blood-soaked consequences due to her hyperkinetic powers. Sissy Spacek played the title character, and John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt also starred.

After that 1976 hit, several follow-ups came later including The Rage: Carrie 2,...

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Explore the backyard of Nowadays, which has become an eerie village suffering the curse of the werewolf in the days following the full moon. You will meet feral lycan folk who are slowly returning to their human form, hear ghostly stories told around the fire, commune with spirits with the Mystic, and immerse yourself in the haunting melodies of Hannah Gill and her band. If you survive long enough, you just might come face to face with a full fledged werewolf.

Journey into the dark club interior of Nowadays and discover a vampire den of pleasure and sin. Witness an Elizabeth Bathory style rope suspension demonstration,...

Not only is Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush back on Digital for the first time in years, it’s also getting released in theaters next week!

Shout! Studios, in collaboration with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures, and Blumhouse, announced today that Hush is finally coming to U.S. theaters for a special engagement beginning October 16.

From the press release, “The film has been fully restored and approved by Flanagan. This eagerly anticipated theatrical engagement will showcase a newly restored version of Hush for the first time on the big screen. Additionally, the event screening will feature a livestream Q&a with filmmaker Mike Flanagan and the film’s co-writer and star Kate Siegel. The live Q&a, featuring Flanagan and Siegel, is set to be held at Vidiots in Eagle Rock, California, immediately after the screening, and will be livestreamed to select theaters nationwide.”

In celebration of the special theatrical and Digital release,...

Mike Flanagan has cemented himself as one of horror's truly great modern storytellers. From his miniseries on Netflix like "The Haunting of Hill House" to underrated gems such as "Hush," the man has earned the trust of viewers. He's also earned the trust of Stephen King, as Flanagan has made two movies based on the author's work; "Gerald's Game" and "Doctor Sleep." In both of those cases, the material was incredibly difficult to adapt, yet Flanagan got it done. While the filmmaker isn't through with King, there is a project that he wishes hadn't gotten away from him.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about his new King adaptation "The Life of Chuck," Flanagan was asked if there was a project that he felt was "the one that got away." He was quick to cite his planned adaptation of King's 2014 novel "Revival," which he wrote a script for before the project ultimately fell apart.

Neon has acquired North American rights to The Life of Chuck, winner of the People’s Choice Award at this month’s Toronto festival (TIFF).

Buyers had been circling the Mike Flanagan-directed Stephen King adaptation, handled by WME Independent and FilmNation for North American and international sales respectively, since the film’s TIFF world premiere.

TIFF’s People’s Choice prize is seen as a bellwether for Oscar consideration, though with Neon planning a summer 2025 theatrical release the film is not likely to be part of this year’s awards race.

The Life of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor,...

Neon has acquired North American rights to The Life of Chuck, winner of the People’s Choice Award at this month’s Toronto festival (TIFF).

Buyers had been circling the Mike Flanagan-directed Stephen King adaptation, handled by WME Independent and FilmNation for North American and international sales respectively, since the film’s TIFF world premiere.

TIFF’s People’s Choice prize is seen as a bellwether for Oscar consideration, though with Neon planning a summer 2025 theatrical release the film is not likely to be part of this year’s awards race.

The Life of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor,...

Editors note: Variety ran a story three minutes behind Deadline’s scoop, and then changed their time stamp to 11:53, to appear that they had broken this story. We at Deadline are not here to bend time; it seems enough that our readers who rely on us to break virtually every festival deal story know that the other side fudged it.

Exclusive: The Life of Chuck, the Mike Flanagan-directed genre-bending film that won the Audience Prize at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, is in final talks to be acquired for distribution by Neon, which Deadline hears is eyeing a 2025 release.

Flanagan wrote the script from a Stephen King novella, and the film stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Carl Lumbly, Benjamin Pajak, Jacob Tremblay and Mark Hamill. The Life of Chuck bowed on Friday night, September 6 as a Special Presentation.

Flanagan and cast were there, as was the author.

Mike Flanagan is not just one of our modern horror masters, but he's proved to be one of the very best there is at adapting Stephen King's work for the screen. Between "Gerald's Game" and "Doctor Sleep," he's done the unthinkable not once, but twice. Two of the least-adaptable King novels were brought to life in brilliant fashion. Now, Flanagan is back with another King movie in the form of "The Life of Chuck," which is earning rave reviews on the festival circuit. However, it turns out Flanagan almost lost that opportunity thanks to his currently gestating adaptation of "The Dark Tower."

King's "The Dark Tower" series is his magnum opus, consisting of multiple novels spread out over decades. Flanagan is now working on adapting those books into a show. That's great news for fans of King's work. However, as the filmmaker recently noted in an interview with Vanity Fair,...

David Gordon Green’s planned The Exorcist trilogy, which began with the poorly received The Exorcist: Believer, is no more, with Blumhouse pivoting down a bold new path instead.

Mike Flanagan will be directing the next installment in the franchise for Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, and it’s already been dated for theatrical release on March 13, 2026.

While plot details are currently under wraps, the new film will tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and it’s definitely Not a sequel to last year’s The Exorcist: Believer.

Flanagan’s feature is said to be a “radical new take for the franchise,” and he teases his vision for the franchise’s big screen return in a new chat with The Hollywood Reporter this week.

“We aren’t making this easy on ourselves,” Flanagan tells the site. “But I’ve always felt that there’s no point in going...

After releasing to digital last month, one of my favorite Mike Flanagan films, Hush, is headed to to 4K Uhd and Blu-ray this November, courtesy of Scream Factory!

From the Press Release: Bring home the terrifying film Hush, a chilling home-invasion thriller from visionary filmmaker Mike Flanagan, and experience suspense, tension, and horror as you never have before. This timeless masterpiece is highly regarded by Stephen King, who praised it as being “up there with Halloween, and even more, Wait Until Dark.” On November 26, Scream Factory™, in collaboration with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures, and Blumhouse, is proud to present Hush Collector’s Edition (4K Uhd™ + Blu-ray™) in the U.S. and Canada.

Hush is being released for the first time on physical media in both 4K and Blu-ray™ formats. This highly anticipated Collector’s Edition includes a newly restored 4K version of the film, supervised and approved by Director Mike Flanagan.

Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush (2016) made its debut on Digital courtesy of Shout! Studios just last week, the film finally available to watch again after disappearing from streaming for the past couple years. The film has also never received a physical media release, but we’ve learned that’s all changing thanks to Scream Factory later this year.

Hush comes to physical media for the very first time in a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Collector’s Edition release from Scream Factory on November 26, 2024, the company announced today!

Scream Factory previews, “This highly anticipated Collector’s Edition includes a newly restored 4K version of the film, supervised and approved by Director Mike Flanagan.

“Additionally, a new black-and-white version of the film, nicknamed the “Shush Cut,” with a new audio mix will be featured. This mix removes nearly all of the score, providing a different effect that is just as terrifying as the original.

In 2016, Mike Flanagan's horror movie "Hush" hit streaming service Netflix and quickly got attention. The slasher-thriller follows a deaf writer (played by Kate Siegel) who finds herself targeted by a masked killer. Since she's unable to hear, the writer can never quite be sure when the killer is coming or what he's doing, which only heightens the tension. It's an effective movie from one of our best modern horror filmmakers, and Flanagan would go on to make more projects with Netflix, including the excellent series "The Haunting of Hill House." But sadly, streaming doesn't last forever, and in 2023, "Hush" left Netflix. To make matters worse, the movie wasn't available anywhere else — Netflix very rarely does physical releases for their streaming titles, and as such, "Hush" felt like it was lost in the ether.

Thankfully, hope was on the way. For one thing, the movie became available on digital in August of this year.

Mike Flanagan’s “Hush” is coming to home video on November 26 from Scream Factory, in a deluxe, four-disc 4K Uhd and Blu-ray set. The set was made in collaborator with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures and Blumhouse.

According to the official release, this collector’s edition of the 2016 home invasion thriller “includes a newly restored 4K version of the film, supervised and approved by Director Mike Flanagan. Additionally, a new black-and-white version of the film, nicknamed the Shush Cut, with a new audio mix will be featured. This mix removes nearly all of the score, providing a different effect that is just as terrifying as the original. The Collector’s Edition offers extensive bonus content, including new audio commentaries and interviews with the filmmakers and cast, new feature-length picture-in-picture video commentary with Flanagan and the cast, and much more.” Get the full disc-by-disc rundown below.

If you never saw “Hush,” it stars Kate Siegel,...

While the Toronto International Film Festival won’t officially launch a sales market until 2026, this year kicks off on Thursday with multiple buzzy titles for sale starring the likes of Ben Stiller, Sydney Sweeney, Jude Law and Tom Hiddleston.

Hollywood descends upon the Canadian metropolis for starry world premieres and the unofficial start of awards season. But for years now TIFF has also been a place of serious business. Last year the Glen Powell rom-com “Hit Man” sold to Netflix for $20 million at the festival after a raucous screening.

“They’ve very much shaped this festival with a sales environment in mind,” Intrepid Pictures CEO Trevor Macy told TheWrap as he prepared to head to TIFF with the Hiddleston-fronted Stephen King adaptation “The Life of Chuck,” from writer/director Mike Flanagan. “It seems like buyers are showing up in force.”

And to prove his point, Sony Classics scooped up “Jane...

There’s never been a “normal” year in the independent film market, but this will be the first time in five years that Toronto and Venice don’t have to deal with active catastrophe. No massive labor strikes, pandemics, virtual screenings, or even overwhelming panic about the box office: Just movies seeking buyers.

Now, only one question remains: With this newfound sense of calm, will they show up? As one sales agent put it to IndieWire: If this year turns out to be slow for indie film sales, there are “no more excuses.”

A lot happened while everyone was busy fending off disaster. It’s unclear if theatrical viewing habits will ever return to the levels of 2019 and nowhere is that more apparent than the indie sector. Back in the day, Netflix and Amazon were major buyers; today, all streamers have scaled way, way back on their acquisitions. They...

Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush has been unavailable to stream for a while now, and with no physical media release available at this time, well, the Netflix movie had seemingly dropped off the face of the planet entirely. This week, however, it’s back.

Hush was just unleashed for the first time on Digital this morning by Shout! Studios in collaboration with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures, and Blumhouse!

The digital release of Mike Flanagan’s Hush is now available for purchase ($14.99) and/or rent ($5.99) across all major digital entertainment platforms in the United States and Canada.

Flanagan previews, “Hush is one of the projects that is closest to my heart, and I cannot think of a better home than Shout! I’m so glad that people will finally be able to rent or purchase the film digitally. I’ve always loved how Shout! Studios champions and treasures their titles,...

The katet is still coming to your TV screens … sometime. Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy first announced their intention to adapt Stephen King’s magnum opus of a book series for the small screen in 2022, but Flanagan has since turned his attention to another King adaptation in The Life of Chuck and he recently signed on to write and direct a new Exorcist film. So where does that leave The Dark Tower TV show? Here’s what we know so far. Is The Dark Tower TV show still happening? Yes — just very, very slowly. In July, Flanagan said in a podcast interview with Talking Scared that he was still working on the Dark Tower adaptation, even while making The Exorcist. “It became so clear to me that that kind of oil tanker of a project was just gonna be moving along. It’s perfectly feasible for me to be working...

After being crowned the co-ceo of DC Universe with Peter Safran, James Gunn has been trying really hard to make his fans believe that his forthcoming version of the respective superhero-verse would actually be worth the wait. For this, not only has he given an insight into the source material he’ll be using but also succeeded in making some of the most accurate casting decisions.

James Gunn. | Credits: Erik Drost/Cca-2.0/Wikimedia Commons.

But while he is one of the main cooks for now, there is someone else who is truly eager to join and lead the saga alongside him: Mike Flanagan. Being a renowned master of horror with innumerable masterpieces in the genre, he could be a worthy addition to the crew and bring his own iconic chops to the table. That said, fans are really rallying for this to actually happen.

Mike Flanagan Wants to...

Once set up at Netflix, Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s production company Intrepid Pictures now has an exclusive multiyear overall series deal with Amazon MGM Studios and one of the shows they’re working on for Prime Video is Flanagan’s dream project, a series adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. Fans are anxiously waiting for updates on the status of that project – but when it moves forward, it won’t be the first time someone has attempted to make a TV series version of The Dark Tower for Prime Video. Five years ago, Glen Mazzara, Akiva Goldsman, and King himself developed a take on the material and a pilot episode was shot, with Stephen Hopkins directing and Sam Strike in the lead role of gunslinger Roland. Amazon decided not to move ahead with the series at that time… and for fans who have been wondering what the pilot episode was like,...

Before Amazon Studios announced in 2022 that Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures would take on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, the studio passed on The Dark Tower pilot in 2020 from The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara.

The showrunner/executive producer has unveiled his script for the unaired pilot on The Stunt List, available to read now.

Mazarra took to social media to share the script, saying that it was “a blast to write.“

This was a blast to write. https://t.co/PjDwfVS2ok pic.twitter.com/CROcTVgQMt

— Glen Mazzara (@glenmazzara) August 19, 2024

Glen Mazzara’s “The Dark Tower“ TV series was meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book, removed from the panned 2017 film adaptation. It was to take place many years before the events depicted in the feature and focused on the origin story of Roland Deschain – how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns,...

Chris Stuckmann could have rested on his laurels. He could have coasted on his 2 million-plus YouTube subscribers and led a happy, fulfilling life as the internet’s premier movie buff. But teenage dreams don’t go away that easily, and as grateful as he is for the film community that’s formed around his eponymously named YouTube channel, his original ambition was to make movies, not talk about them. The Ohio native has been helming amateur shorts and features with his friends since he was 14 years old, and he continued doing so once he started YouTubing at 21. Each project got better and better, and in 2019, Stuckmann decided to truly make a go at professional filmmaking.

The first domino fell at 2019’s Fantastic Fest, where Stuckmann met Paper Street Pictures’ Aaron B. Koontz. The filmmaker pitched the indie producer on the fly during one of the fest’s signature boxing matches,...

Once set up at Netflix, Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s production company Intrepid Pictures now has an exclusive multiyear overall series deal with Amazon MGM Studios – and one of the shows they’re working on for Prime Video is Flanagan’s dream project, a series adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. Flanagan also recently signed on to make the next Exorcist movie for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, a move that caused some King fans to worry that he’s being distracted from his efforts to bring The Dark Tower to the screen… but during a recent interview on the podcast Talking Scared, Flanagan assured fans that’s not the case.

Flanagan said (with thanks to Cinema Blend for the transcription), “Oh, (The Exorcist) is not in the way. They coexist very well. I think the trick with The Dark Tower is just it’s still just...

Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s production company Intrepid Pictures enjoyed a strong working relationship with the Netflix streaming service for several years, but the deal between the companies came to an end as 2022 came to a close, and Intrepid signed an exclusive multiyear overall series deal with Amazon MGM Studios. Soon after, Flanagan and Macy secured the rights to make Flanagan’s dream project a reality: they started developing a series adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. We haven’t heard much about the project since then, although Flanagan said during last year’s writers strike that The Dark Tower would be his top priority once the strike ended… and after he finished working on the feature adaptation of King’s short story The Life of Chuck. Flanagan also recently signed on to make the next Exorcist movie for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, seemingly pushing The Dark Tower...

One of my favorite Mike Flanagan films, Hush, is headed to digital for the first time, thanks to Shout! Studios this August and we have all the details:

"Hush, the chilling home-invasion thriller from prolific creative genius Mike Flanagan, is set to be unleashed for the first time on Digital on August 27, 2024 by Shout! Studios in collaboration with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures, and Blumhouse. Loyal fans, horror movie enthusiasts, and movie collectors will relish the digital release of Hush, available for purchase and/ or rent across major digital entertainment platforms in the U.S. and Canada.

Said Flanagan, “Hush is one of the projects that is closest to my heart, and I cannot think of a better home than Shout! I’m so glad that people will finally be able to rent or purchase the film digitally. I’ve always loved how Shout! Studios champions and treasures their titles, and I...

It’s been eight years since the Netflix release of Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush, but it’s interesting to note that the film is no longer streaming on Netflix. In fact, it’s currently unavailable to stream or rent/purchase Anywhere, and we’ve also never gotten a physical media release. In other words, you cannot watch Hush at all right now.

But that’s about to change…

Hush is set to be unleashed for the first time on Digital on August 27, 2024 by Shout! Studios in collaboration with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures, and Blumhouse!

The digital release of Mike Flanagan’s Hush will be available for purchase and/or rent across all major digital entertainment platforms in the United States and Canada.

Flanagan previews, “Hush is one of the projects that is closest to my heart, and I cannot think of a better home than Shout! I...

Mike Flanagan’s favorite of his own films is will soon be for sale on digital — finally.

The horror auteur’s 2016 SXSW festival pick “Hush” will be released on PVOD (pay video on-demand) for the first time August 27 by Shout! Studios in collaboration with Flanagan, Intrepid Pictures, and Blumhouse. The film will be available for purchase and/or rent across major digital entertainment platforms in the U.S. and Canada.

This won’t be the first time “Hush” has ever been available on streaming — the film was on Netflix until being unceremoniously removed in 2023.

“‘Hush’ is one of the projects that is closest to my heart, and I cannot think of a better home than Shout!,” Flanagan said in a press statement. “I’m so glad that people will finally be able to rent or purchase the film digitally. I’ve always loved how Shout! Studios champions and treasures their titles,...

Big news for horror fans and avid followers of YouTuber Chris Stuckmann. The film critic's upcoming horror movie Shelby Oaks has just been picked up by Neon for theatrical distribution. Shelby Oaks will have its world premiere this weekend at the Fantasia Festival and is likely on track for a 2025 release in theaters.

Neon has been the talk of the town lately thanks to the huge success of recent release Longlegs, the captivating and unsettling serial killer starring Maika Monroe as an FBI agent investigating the titular murderer, played by an unrecognizable Nicolas Cage. Longlegs broke the record for the biggest opening weekend box office for original horror this year, earning $22.6 million.

According to Variety, Longlegs was made for less than $10 million and the studio used around that amount to market the film, so by my calculations that means its already broken even on its first weekend in cinemas.

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Neon has acquired the rights to “Shelby Oaks,” a found-footage horror film (think: “The Blair Witch Project”) that is the feature directorial debut of YouTuber Chris Stuckmann.

Stuckmann is known for his movie review YouTube channel that has more than 2 million subscribers, but his debut feature was born with a Kickstarter in 2022. Stuckmann raised $1.39 million in less than a month, the most-funded horror film ever on Kickstarter.

“Shelby Oaks” follows Mia as she frantically searches for her sister Riley, who ominously disappeared in the last tape of her investigative series, “Paranormal Paranoids.” The characters are YouTubers themselves in the mid-aughts who in the course of their investigation discover that there’s a paranormal force that dates back to their childhood.

Neon picked up the worldwide rights to “Shelby Oaks” ahead of its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival this Saturday. Stuckmann has been heavily touting the film on his YouTube channel,...

Fresh off the success of last weekend’s “Longlegs,” Neon announced Tuesday that it has acquired worldwide rights to the “Shelby Oaks,” which was written and directed by filmmaker and YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann. It marks Stuckmann’s feature directorial debut. The film is described as a documentary-found footage crossover. It will have its world premiere at Fantasia Festival on Saturday. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and handle international sales.

“Shelby Oaks” stars Camille Sullivan (“Hunter Hunter”), Brendan Sexton III (“Don’t Breathe 2”) and Sarah Durn (“Where the Crawdads Sing”). It follows a woman named Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn), who ominously disappeared in the last tape of her investigative series, “Paranormal Paranoids.” Stuckmann’s film benefitted from a 2022 Kickstarter campaign, which raised $1.4 million for the film in under a month, making it the most-funded horror film in the service’s history.

Fresh off the box office success of Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, which just had the highest opening weekend in the company’s history, Neon has picked up YouTube critic Chris Stuckmann’s debut horror movie Shelby Oaks, Deadline reports this afternoon.

Neon has acquired worldwide rights to the found footage horror movie, which is World Premiering at Fantasia this week. No word yet on a wide release date. Stay tuned for more.

Horror master Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, “The Fall of the House of Usher”) recently came on board the upcoming Shelby Oaks as an executive producer. Flanagan, Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka of Intrepid Pictures have joined the team.

The cast for Shelby Oaks will include Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2), Michael Beach (If Beale Street Could Talk), Robin Bartlett (Shutter Island), Keith David (The Thing), Charlie Talbert (The Big Short), Emily Bennett (Alone With You...

Fresh off its stellar box office for Osgood Perkins horror Longlegs, Neon has acquired worldwide rights to the upcoming documentary-found footage crossover Shelby Oaks, written and directed by filmmaker and YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann.

Stuckmann’s debut film will have its world premiere at Fantasia Festival on Saturday.

Launched from a 2022 Kickstarter campaign which raised $1.39M for the film in under a month – the most-funded horror film ever on Kickstarter – Shelby Oaks follows Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn), who ominously disappeared in the last tape of her investigative series, ‘Paranormal Paranoids’.

The film stars Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2) and Sarah Durn (Where the Crawdads Sing). Producers are Stuckmann, Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead, and Cameron Burns for Paper Street Pictures.

Executive producers are Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka for Intrepid Pictures with Mike Flanagan, Adam F. Goldberg, Paul Holbrook,...

Neon has picked up worldwide rights to YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks ahead of its world premiere at Fantasia on July 20.

The documentary-found footage crossover stars Camille Sullivan as a woman searching for her missing sister who disappeared filming her investigative series Paranormal Paranoids. Brendan Sexton III and Sarah Durn alsoi star.

Stuckmann, Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead, and Burns produced for Paper Street Pictures after a 2022 Kickstarter campaign raised $1.39m for the film in under a month. The filmmakers said this remains the highest amount raised on the platform for a feature.

Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka...

The 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival descends on Montreal July 18 for 3 weeks of wild, and wondrous cinema. Included among the official selections in the 2024 program are some of the years most anticipated horror releases, hidden gems from around the world, and even free events with acclaimed filmmakers, including Mike Flanagan! This year’s program includes E.L. Katz’s action-packed dialog-free post-apocalyptic nightmare Azrael, as well as In Our Blood a found footage shocker from documentarian-turned-horror-maestro Pedro Kos, and Rita from Jayro Bustamante who’s 2019 sleeper hit La Llorona grabbed the indie horror scene by the throat.

Needless to say, there are hundreds of movies at Fantasia that we can’t wait to sink our teeth into (including something called Chainsaws Are Singing which the fest has described as “Monty Python meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Les Misérables!?!). Below are the 10 horror movies we’re most excited to see and review for...

Ende Mai hatte Regisseur Mike Flanagan einen „völlig neuen ‚Exorzist‘“ angekündigt. Universal hat jetzt den 13. März 2026 als US-Starttermin benannt.

Mike Flanagan arbeitet beim neuen „Exorzist“ zum vierten Mal mit Blumhouse zusammen (Credit: Imago / Everett Collection)

Universal bringt Mike Flanagans „Exorzist” am 13. März 2026 in die US-Kinos. Das gab das Studio jetzt bekannt.

Ende Mai hatte die Horrorschmiede Blumhouse Spekulationen bestätigt, dass Flanagan nach eigenem Drehbuch einen neuen „Exorzist“ inszenieren und zusammen mit Trevor Macy und Jason Blum produzieren wird.

Zuvor hatte David Gordon Green, Regisseur von “Der Exorzist: Bekenntnis“, der mit einem weltweiten Einspiel von etwas mehr als 130 Mio. Dollar am Boxoffice enttäuscht hatte, bereits abgewunken gehabt, als um einen weiteren Teil ging.

Bei seiner Verpflichtung versprach Flanagan eine „radikale Neuausrichtung“ und betonte, dass der „Exorzist“ einer der Gründe sei, warum er Filmemacher geworden sei.Für Flanagan ist es die vierte Zusammenarbeit mit Blumhouse nach „Oculus“, „Still“ und „Ouija: Ursprung des Bösen...

Friday the 13th seems like a nice day for an exorcism, right? Universal has set an appropriately spooky date for their new Exorcist movie from director Mike Flanagan, per Deadline.

The new Exorcist movie from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek has been dated for theatrical release on March 13, 2026, an appropriately spooky and fitting Friday the 13th.

While plot details are currently under wraps, the new film will tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to David Gordon Green‘s The Exorcist: Believer. Plans for that trilogy are no longer moving forward.

Flanagan’s feature is said to be a radical new take for the franchise.

Flanagan previously said in a statement, “The Exorcist is one of the reasons I became a filmmaker, and it is an honor to have the chance to try something fresh, bold, and terrifying within its universe. Reuniting with my friends at Blumhouse,...

Horror Maestro Mike Flanagan’s reimagined The Exorcist film will hit theaters on March 13, 2026, Universal announced Tuesday. Put another way, this isn’t the devil you think you know.

Blumhouse and Morgan Creek’s plans for a trilogy of new The Exorcist films was derailed with the poor and polarizing response to last year’s The Exorcist Believer, directed by David Gordon Green.

Flanagan, whose credits include The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep and the new The Fall of the House of Usher has created an entirely new narrative nightmare that is not a sequel to any previous Exorcist film and that charts a new course for the film franchise.

The film will be produced by Flanagan’s longtime collaborative producer Trevor Macy (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass) for Intrepid Pictures, by Flanagan for his Red Room Pictures, and by Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s,...