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‘Shutter’ Director Returns With Thai Horror ‘The Medium’!
Early 2000s Asian horror cinema peaked around the release of Banjong Pisanthanakun‘s Thai horror masterpiece Shutter (2004), which was eventually remade here in the States by 20th Century Fox and the producer behind The Ring and The Grudge.
Pisanthanakun is back with The Medium, a supernatural horror flick that will be produced by Korea’s Na Hong-jin, who was behind classics such as The Wailing, Yellow Sea and The Chase, writes THR.
Now in post-production, “The Medium is described as a horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand.
“But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.”
Notes the site, international sales for The Medium are being handled by Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut, which will launch the film at Berlin’s upcoming European Film Market.
Earlier this month, the new Scary Movie broke a franchise record with a $105 million worldwide opening weekend, and the horror-comedy spoof has now passed $200 million.
The current domestic total for Scary Movie as we head into another weekend is $100 million, while the worldwide box office total currently sits at a healthy $208 million.
With that $208 million added to the franchise’s previous box office office totals over the years, Deadline notes this week, the Scary Movie franchise has now hit $1 billion!
Here are the worldwide totals for all six movies in the franchise to date…
- Scary Movie ($278M)
- Scary Movie 2 ($141.2M)
- Scary Movie 3 ($220.6M)
- Scary Movie 4 ($178.2M)
- Scary Movie 5 ($78.3M)
- Scary Movie 6 ($208.5M)
Deadline also notes in their report, “The current Scary Movie is the first pure R-rated comedy (not a hybrid action or superhero genre movie) to cross $100M since 2017’s Girls Trip.”
The reported production budget for Paramount’s new Scary Movie was just $30 million, ensuring that the franchise’s sixth installment will be turning a healthy profit in theaters.
Scary Movie is currently 23% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes and film’s CinemaScore was a dismal C+, but the film is nevertheless proving itself to be review-proof at the box office.
Marlon Wayans (“Shorty”), Shawn Wayans (“Ray”), Anna Faris (“Cindy”), and Regina Hall (“Brenda”) reunite for the new Scary Movie, with the cast also including Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, Jon Abrahams, Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, and Felissa Rose.
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (“Ghostface”), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe…
Scary Movie will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t. A whole lot has changed in the horror genre since the Wayans Brothers were in charge of the franchise; their involvement ended with Scary Movie 2 back in 2001!
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directed the new Scary Movie.
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