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The Next Installment in the ‘Purge’ Film Franchise Arrives in Theaters Summer 2020

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The Purge: Election Year

We’re not getting a new Purge movie this year but we’ve learned that the franchise’s fifth installment is coming *next* year, with Universal setting a July 10, 2020 date this week! Interestingly, it will open against Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters which shares the exact same release. Will one of them move?

At this time, the film is untitled and we don’t yet have any details, though it’s worth noting that with four films and a TV series under the franchise’s belt, it seems creator James DeMonaco has his sights set on calling it a day in the near future. Possibly even with the 2020 film.

I have [the next installment] in my head,” DeMonaco recently told EW. “I think I’m going to write it. I think it’s a great way to end it all. We want to end it all, I think, in this one, and I’m very excited. When I came up with the idea and pitched it to everybody, they seemed psyched, and I think it will be a really cool ending, how we take this one home.”

The First Purge has damn sure proven that the franchise is still incredibly profitable on the big screen, but one has to wonder how much more can possibly be milked from the concept. The fifth film promising to end the bloody experiment might be just what the franchise needs to go out with a serious bang at the box office, and put asses in the seats one more time.

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‘The Invisible Man 2’ – Elisabeth Moss Says the Sequel Is Closer Than Ever to Happening

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Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.

First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.

Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.

Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.

Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.

“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”

She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”

At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.

Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.

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