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‘Happy Death Day’ Joins Slasher Giants With $100M+ Worldwide Milestone

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6 years ago

November 22, 2017

The slasher revival begins now, right? RIGHT?!

This year has all around been an INCREDIBLE year for the horror genre, with films such as Split, Get Out and IT making it one of the best (and most profitable) years in the genre’s entire history. And let’s not forget the low-budget slasher Happy Death Day, which pulled in an impressive $26.5 million at the domestic opening weekend box office.

Just about a month later, we’re happy to let you know that Universal and Blumhouse’s Happy Death Day has now surpassed $100 million worldwide, raking in $55.5 million domestically and $44.6 million internationally – and, we must point out, it’s still opening in six other international markets in the coming weeks!

Made on a reported budget of just $4.8 million, the Christopher Landon-directed original slasher flick has officially joined post-boom slashers such as Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddy vs. Jason and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) in the prestigious $100 million club.

Could this mean that a full-on slasher revival is on the horizon? Well, with Halloween coming next year, we’ve got a strong feeling that we’re going to be seeing a whole lot of stalking and slashing on the big screen in the coming years.

As history has shown, all it takes is one big hit. And Happy Death Day is that hit.

In Happy Death Day, “Tree Gelbman wakes up again and again on the same day – her birthday – only to be murdered and restart the process until she finds out who killed her.”

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release Happy Death Day on Digital in 4K Ultra HD and standard definition as well as via the digital movie app MOVIES ANYWHERE on January 2, 2018 and on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand January 16, 2018.

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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13 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.