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EOne Makes Overall Deal With ‘Paranormal’s Steven Schneider and ‘The Grey’s Adi Shankar

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 6, 2012 @ 7:02am PSTTags: eOne, Steven Schneider
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles/Toronto – February 6, 2012 – Independent studio Entertainment One (eOne) has entered into a multi-year film and television production pact with ROOM 101, Inc. partners Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity 1, 2 & 3, Insidious, The Devil Inside) and Adi Shankar (The Grey).

Under the terms of the deal, ROOM 101 will deliver on average two premium micro-budget genre titles annually to eOne. The projects will be high-concept and filmmaker-driven, and will encompass both acquisitions and original productions. eOne will finance, co-produce, and distribute globally, with the exception of the United States where distribution will be handled on a per-project basis. READ MORE »

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Mike Fleiss Scares Up Directing Debut, Teaming With Fright Maven Steven Schneider

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 4:50pm PDTTags: Mike Fleiss, Steven Schneider, The Cove
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After making his directing debut on the documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Mike Fleiss has made a deal to make his narrative directing debut on an untitled low-budget horror film. He is partnered on the project with Steven Schneider, … Read More »

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CBS Films Boards ‘Flight 75′ With ‘The Grudge’ Helmer Takashi Shimizu

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 9:30am PDTTags: Cameron Diaz, CBS Films, Colin Firth, Ed Zwick, Jonathan Levine, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Takashi Shimizu, Vince Flynn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has acquired Flight 75, a pitch for a thriller that will be directed by The Grudge helmer Takashi Shimizu. Project was bought on a treatment by Shimizu and a writer will be set momentarily. It is described … Read More »

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‘Conan The Barbarian’ Helmer Marcus Nispel To Next Direct ‘Backmask’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 9, 2011 @ 9:11am PDTTags: Barry Levinson, Cannes, Graham Taylor, Marcus Nispel, Nicolas Chartier, Steven Schneider
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Conan the Barbarian helmer Marcus Nispel will next direct Backmask, a $10 million film that will begin shooting this summer. It’s based on an idea by Nispel, whose recent films include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th. Kirsten Elms is writing the script. Nispel is keeping the … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: James Wan’s ‘Insidious’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 7:42am PSTTags: FilmDistrict, Insidious, James Wan, Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Paranormal Activity, Steven Schneider
Mike Fleming

Upstart distributor FilmDistrict has issued a new trailer for Insidious, the horror film by original Saw writer-director team of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, produced by Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider. The film, which looks like a good old fashioned haunted house movie, opens April 1.

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Paramount’s Insurge Makes Its First Micro-Budget Buy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 12:36pm PSTTags: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Micro-Budget Indie Movies, Movie Deals, Movies, Paramount Insurge, Paranormal Activity, Steven Schneider, The Devil Inside
Mike Fleming

Paramount Insurge, the division formed to generate micro-budget movies following the studio’s success with Paranormal Activity, has made its first acquisition. Insurge just acquired an untitled pic by director and co-writer William Brent Bell for worldwide distribution (it had the working title The Devil Inside but studio says it might … Read More »

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Rob Zombie Bewitched by ‘Lords of Salem’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 22, 2010 @ 4:23pm PDTTags: Jason Blum, Movies, Oren Peli, Steven Schneider, Zombies
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Zombie has committed to make The Lords of Salem his next directorial outing. The film has been put together by Haunted Films, the company run by the Paranormal Activity team of Jason Blum, Steven Schneider and Oren Peli. The pic is a co-production between Haunted Films and Alliance Films, marking their third film together. The first, the James Wan-directed haunted house thriller Insidious, was acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide right after its midnight premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last week. Barry Levinson is currently shooting the second, The Bay, in South Carolina. Octane, the genre arm of IM Global, will handle Read More »

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