After helming a slew of massive blockbuster films, director James Wan has finished production on his latest feature Malignant that returns to his roots in horror.
The announcement comes via his Instagram page where he shared a photo of he and stars Annabelle Wallis and Maddie Hasson.
Speaking of busting ghosts, according to Deadline the third film to be based on the paranormal investigations of Ed and Lorraine Warren now has its full title straight from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
The official synopsis reads it is a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil, a case that shocked even the experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational from their files, it begins with a fight for the soul of a young boy and takes them beyond anything they’d ever seen before marking the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
Many people watch horror films on Halloween night. Some opt for true tales of ghosts and demons via reality television programs. This Halloween Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures team are combining the two flavors into a frightening taste combination in the form of their new two-hour Halloween special Ghost Adventures: Curse of the Harrisville Farmhouse (airing at 9 p.m. on Halloween on the Travel Channel).
In an interview with The Las Vegas Review Journal, Bagans explained the lure of the location and that “Ed and Lorraine Warren had received so much attention because of the movies and Hollywood that I really wanted to get in there and see the other details that weren’t really portrayed in the Hollywood films. I know there’s truth to it, but at the same time, I wanted to do my own investigation in such an iconic and well-known case.”
Legends about cursed film sets and the after-effects of starring in horror films involving devilish subjects have long been the stuff of Hollywood lore.This Sunday, E!’s True Hollywood Stories will examine how real these curses actually are with their Halloween special, Horror Movies: Cursed or Coincidence?
According to the official press release, the special edition will examine rumors of haunted and cursed activity on and off the set on The Exorcist, The Conjuring, and other horror favorites. Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans will also join the party as an expert witness who truly understands the scope of the problem, as not only a part of Ghost Adventures, but also as the purveyor of many cursed objects at this haunted museum in Las Vegas.
To the delight of the many fans in attendance at their SDCC 2019 panel, Ghost Adventures’ Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley announced two new specials for the month of October including the four part ‘Serial Killer Spirits’ mini-series and a Halloween investigation of the Harrisville, Rhode Island home that was the basis for The original Conjuring film.
This year, the #GhostAdventures’ four-part miniseries will focus on America’s most notorious serial killers. #GAComicCon #SDCC pic.twitter.com/c1KAGA0W5E
Another week, another second place finish for a horror film at the weekend box office. Just like last week’s Child Play, Annabelle Comes Home nabbed second place with an estimated $20.3 million.
Annabelle Comes Home opened on Tuesday night with shows starting at 5:00 p.m., and then opened wide on Wednesday, so the box office take is somewhat deceiving, although it did perform worse than either of the two previous Annabelle films. The latest addition to the Conjuringverse currently sits at $31.2 million (with an additional $21.1 from foreign markets).
No horror franchise in the last decade has been as profitable as James Wan’s The Conjuring empire. Ever since The Conjuring was released in 2013, anything associated with the ever-expanding tales from the files of renowned ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren have been a license to print money, accounting for over $1.5 billion in worldwide sales.
And if the Conjuring-verse has an MVP, it is undoubtedly the porcelain-faced devil-doll known as Annabelle. Ever since she was introduced in a vignette at the start of the original Conjuring film, it was pretty clear that she would go on to bigger and better things. With three films to her name, she is one of the most easily recognizable faces of the horror genre for a whole generation of fans whose first cinematic scares came at her expense.
Well, it didn’t take long for “The Devil’s Rocking Chair” to start causing trouble at Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. According to an official tweet, the rocking chair stirred up so much paranormal activity, that the museum had to temporarily shut the exhibit down.
So we just shut-down a new exhibit @hauntedmuseum temporarily because of what just occured w/ staff & a guest… moments before we opened the exhibit me and my assistant witnessed a plug get yanked out of the wall socket by itself then the door to the chair opened slowly
The second trailer for the sixth entry in New Line’s perennial money making Conjuring series features more hijinks than can be imagined at the Warren’s world famous museum. The ring leader is naturally everyone’s favorite doll Annabelle, who not only causes enough trouble for one horror film, but brings along a host of demonic friends to terrorize Ed and Lorraine’s daughter (and baby sitters) while the couple is away on official ghost business.
Annabelle Comes Home’s Gary Dauberman makes his directorial debut after writing four out of the six films in the series, including the original Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, The Nun, and Annabelle Comes Home (as well as a Stephen King’s It). The film stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Fermiga (reprising the roles that started the entire franchise) as well Steve Coulter (also returning to the series as Father Gordon) and newcomers Mckenna Grace as Judy Warren (last seen in Netflix’s smash hit The Haunting of Hill House as young Theo), Madison Iseman (Jumanji, Goosebumps 2), and Katie Sarife (Youth and Consequences).
James Wan and Gary Dauberman- the creative team behind numerous entries in The Conjuring cinematic universe- are setting their sights on world of vampires. Their latest project involves bringing Stephen King’s 1975 classic novel, Salem’s Lot to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter says that Wan will produce the film and Dauberman will serve as screenwriter and executive producer.
Wan and Dauberman first collaborated in 2014 on the first The Conjuring spinoff, Annabelle. Wan produced the film and Dauberman wrote the script. This arrangement continued with Annabelle: Creation and The Nun; and now Dauberman will also direct the upcoming Annabelle Comes Home. There is currently no director announced for Salem’s Lot.
