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Amblin’s Monster Movie ‘Come Play’ Tops Halloween Weekend Box Office; Original ‘Halloween’ Makes Top 10
Focus Features and Amblin Partners won Halloween Weekend with their new monster movie Come Play, directed by Jacob Chase and based on his own short film Larry.
Come Play opened in 2,183 theaters within the United States this past weekend, scaring up $3.2 million to come in at #1 on the weekend’s box office charts.
Other horror films that made the Top 10 on Halloween Weekend include The Empty Man at #5 ($561,000), Hocus Pocus at #6 ($456,000), The Nightmare Before Christmas at #7 ($386,000), John Carpenter’s Halloween at #8 ($325,000), and Spell at #10 ($210,000).
According to Indiewire, Come Play is next coming to PVOD on November 20.
“Come Play stars Azhy Robertson as a lonely young boy who feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy’s devices against him to break into our world, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.”
Gillian Jacobs (“Love”) and John Gallagher Jr. (Underwater) play the parents.
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.
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