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Sale of Weinstein Co. Has Been Canceled [Updated]

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UPDATE (March 6, 3:35 p.m.): THE DEAL IS OFF, reports Deadline, who shared a statement from the investor group at the aforementioned link.

The result will most likely mean that TWC’s assets follow that path to a 363 bankruptcy, which would wash the assets of obligations and allow about 20 other suitors to pick the company’s carcass apart. This is awful news for those employed within the company, but it’s actually good news for us genre fans as many of the assets are going to be shopped around town as opposed to trapped between the new investors and the Bob Weinstein-led Dimension Films (as explained below).

Who will end up with Scream? Hellraiser? Children of the Corn? Watch this spot for further developments.


The Weinstein Company is officially changing hands as an investor group backed by billionaire Ron Burkle has reached a $500 million deal that will spare the troubled company from bankruptcy. While you can read the full deals of the arrangement over at Variety, here’s what’s horror important…

Genre label Dimension Films has survived the fallout. Here’s what’s going to happen: Bob Weinstein will depart the company under the agreement, and take the Dimension brand with him as well as one unreleased film, Polaroid.

On the other hand, the investor group will take possession of the Weinstein’s Co.’s 277-film library, including the Dimension titles. Another 125 titles were mortgaged to stave off creditors in 2010, and those will remain encumbered after the sale.

In layman’s terms, this means that Bob Weinstein is going to continue to make new genre films under the Dimension name, while Weinstein Co. has the rights to all previously released titles.

While that’s all pretty clear, what we don’t know is how a sequel or remake to Hellraiser or Scream would work. Who has the rights to derivative works? Do the companies still work together or does Bob take the franchises with him? This is a huge question mark that we’re going to try and find the answer to.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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