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Platinum Dunes Promises More Original Genre Films and No More Horror Reboots

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Platinum Dunes, the company founded by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, first rose to prominence courtesy of a series of horror franchise remakes, beginning with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003. The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street all followed in its wake.

More recently, however, Dunes has brought us the Purge franchise and this year’s A Quiet Place, and they say that original genre entertainment is their main focus going forward. In a new chat with CinePOP, Fuller and Form just say no to horror remakes

“We’ve rebooted enough,” Fuller told the site. “We’ve done all of our [rebooted] horror movies. We’re not going to be doing that anymore.”

Form added, “For us, as a company, we’re always looking for original material. And the idea of finding something original was important for us. We made a film where there’s two to three minutes of talking in the movie, where sound is a full character, and it feels like audiences are really responding to those ingredients.”

With A Quiet Place scaring up $50 million domestically this past weekend, we’d say that not only is horror super hot right now, but ORIGINAL horror is hotter than ever.

So expect a lot more of it up on the big screen in the coming years.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

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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