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‘Annabelle: Creation’ Passing $300 Million Worldwide!
I knew all of our attention would turn to IT once it broke box office records, which is why I rushed up an article pointing out that David F. Sandberg‘s Annabelle: Creation is this year’s most profitable horror film, not Universal Pictures’ Get Out. This isn’t to take anything away from Jordan Peele’s masterpiece but should illustrate just how potent the horror genre is right now. It’s absolutely insane, although I wouldn’t say surprising as horror always performs well during tumultuous times. Things are awful right now and we all want an escape, which is where horror thrives. Studios and horror fans are reaping the benefits.
Digressing, Get Out sits at $250 million worldwide on a $4.5M budget. On a $15M budget, Annabelle: Creation is about to topple $300 million worldwide, with it set to surpass $100M domestically and $200M internationally. Incredible.
Between IT and Annabelle: Creations, Warner Bros./New Line Cinema looks to top $1 BILLION from the horror genre alone by the end of 2017. Holy. Shit.
There are lessons here that I’ve gone over in a previous article. In short, studios needn’t overreact and start pouring money carelessly into horror films, but they do need to start taking our genre seriously and put some weight behind it. Even with mother! underperforming, studios need to take these “safe” risks because one of them could become the next franchise or universe they’re so desperately seeking.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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