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  • Yet more great news about Michael Flanagan’s Exorcist movie

    Yet more great news about Michael Flanagan’s Exorcist movie

    The news keeps getting better about this film we already know it’s a complete reimagining and now we’re hearing about more stars some of the names you’ll know. ..

    Per Deadline, joining The Exorcist are 11 members of the so-called Flanafamily, including Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino, most of whom have appeared across myriad Flanagan projects from Midnight Mass to The Life of Chuck.

    Flanagan’s Exorcist is confirmed to be an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to David Gordon Green’s ill-fated The Exorcist: Believer from 2023. According to The Hollywood Reporter, while plot details for The Exorcist are being kept under the sheets, it is known that Scarlett Johansson plays a mother and Jupe her son. Leguizamo may be playing an antagonist. No word yet on who anyone else will be playing

  • No more true believers in the Exorcist franchise

    No more true believers in the Exorcist franchise

    Well…. It flopped.

    Various sources this morning are lamenting a weak weekend release for THE EXORCIST. Despite some appealing early buzz, the movie seemingly lost its way. It will reportedly earn $27 mil this weekend in domestic runs. Keep in mind the studio purchased the rights for .. drumroll.. $400 million

    Buyers remorse as the devil is in the details.

    Reporting from DEADLINE with analysis of what went wrong:

    Universal originally had the horror theatrical release date of Friday the 13th this month before AMC’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour landed on that date. However, going earlier really wasn’t the problem here for Exorcist: Believer. It was always in the execution.

    Social media analytics firm RelishMix noticed online chatter that had many piling on the rhetorical issue of remakes, as they questioned, “Why re-paint the Mona Lisa of Horror?”

    While horror has been bankable during the pandemic, and this opening for Exorcist: Believer (despite coming in under tracking’s $30M projection) in the wheelhouse of other genre openings, Evil Dead ($24.5M), Smile ($22.6M), The Black Phone ($23.6M) and Nun II‘s $32.6M, many still say that this actors’ strike, and performers’ unable to promote their wares is truly weighing down on ticket sales. A studio just can’t scream these movies from the hilltops in their promotions on social media, at premieres and festivals. Consider the fact that the phenomenal results for 2018’s Halloween began when Blumhouse blasted off the movie at TIFF’s Midnight Madness.

  • ‘Health issue’ halts THE EXORCIST production until next year..

    ‘Health issue’ halts THE EXORCIST production until next year..

    Deadline and others have been reporting the news.. Leslie Odom Jr has been hit with a health issue that is promoting production to delay until 2023, everyone is getting an early Christmas break..

    Deadline reported, “Sources cited an unspecified health issue involving Leslie Odom Jr., who stars alongside Ellen Burstyn, reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from the original 1973 movie.”

    The site describes the shut down as “an early and not cost insignificant” situation. The report adds, “They hope to have [Odom Jr.] back along with the rest of the cast in January..

    Developing..