Post by Tomspy77 on Feb 26, 2015 11:28:40 GMT -6
Amityville: The Awakening Release Update
The next chapter is the storied Amityville franchise, Amityville: The Awakening, was slated for release on January 2, 2015. Well we all know that didn’t happen. So when are we gonna get to dig our claws into this one?
Arrow in the Head caught up with producer Jason Blum to find out.
“We’re still in post on it,” Blum tells the site. “I’m very, very happy with it. We’re continuing to have conversations with Dimension and Weinstein about how it’s going to come out, but it’s definitely going to come out. I think people are going to like it, Jennifer Jason Leigh is great in the movie. I’m hoping to do another movie with Franck. I’m really pleased with it, my guess is we’ll announce when it’ll come out sometime in the next twelve months. Like a lot of the movies that we do, we’re just tinkering with it and trying to make it better. We’re pretty close now. We went back and forth over the cut of the movie, which we’re happy with now. We’re just tinkering with the movie in post-production.”
Daniel Farrands and Casey La Scala co-wrote the script and produce with Jason Blum of hit factory Blumhouse. Frank Khalfoun (Maniac) directs.
Synopsis
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
Arrow in the Head caught up with producer Jason Blum to find out.
“We’re still in post on it,” Blum tells the site. “I’m very, very happy with it. We’re continuing to have conversations with Dimension and Weinstein about how it’s going to come out, but it’s definitely going to come out. I think people are going to like it, Jennifer Jason Leigh is great in the movie. I’m hoping to do another movie with Franck. I’m really pleased with it, my guess is we’ll announce when it’ll come out sometime in the next twelve months. Like a lot of the movies that we do, we’re just tinkering with it and trying to make it better. We’re pretty close now. We went back and forth over the cut of the movie, which we’re happy with now. We’re just tinkering with the movie in post-production.”
Daniel Farrands and Casey La Scala co-wrote the script and produce with Jason Blum of hit factory Blumhouse. Frank Khalfoun (Maniac) directs.
Synopsis
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
The first week of January was supposed to see the theatrical release of AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING, Franck Khalfoun's reboot of the classic horror franchise. But, as is sometimes the case with a movie being distributed by Dimension/The Weinstein Company, the film was suddenly pulled from its release date and sent into "TBD" purgatory. So what happened?
I just snagged a little update on the project from producer Jason Blum, whose new flick THE LAZARUS EFFECT comes out this weekend. The full interview will hit the site in the next day or so, with plenty of news on what his production company has in the works, but this title was of particular interest to me. Here's Blum's statement on the matter:
We're still in post on it. I'm very, very happy with it. We're continuing to have conversations with Dimension and Weinstein about how it's going to come out, but it's definitely going to come out. I think people are going to like it, Jennifer Jason Leigh is great in the movie. I'm hoping to do another movie with Franck. I'm really pleased with it, my guess is we'll announce when it'll come out sometime in the next twelve months."
I then asked if he had any conflicts with The Weinstein Company over the cut of the film; this is how Blum responded:
Like a lot of the movies that we do, we're just tinkering with it and trying to make it better. We're pretty close now. We went back and forth over the cut of the movie, which we're happy with now. We're just tinkering with the movie in post-production."
So then, a lot of tinkering is in effect; clearly AMITYVILLE is still under construction. Obviously at the moment the film doesn't have a release date, but based on Blum's word, we should be hearing something within the year. Let's hope it's worth the wait.
Read more at www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/exclusive-jason-blum-provides-an-amityville-the-awakening-update-334#8jqkOfmWyJvCKdOs.99
I just snagged a little update on the project from producer Jason Blum, whose new flick THE LAZARUS EFFECT comes out this weekend. The full interview will hit the site in the next day or so, with plenty of news on what his production company has in the works, but this title was of particular interest to me. Here's Blum's statement on the matter:
We're still in post on it. I'm very, very happy with it. We're continuing to have conversations with Dimension and Weinstein about how it's going to come out, but it's definitely going to come out. I think people are going to like it, Jennifer Jason Leigh is great in the movie. I'm hoping to do another movie with Franck. I'm really pleased with it, my guess is we'll announce when it'll come out sometime in the next twelve months."
I then asked if he had any conflicts with The Weinstein Company over the cut of the film; this is how Blum responded:
Like a lot of the movies that we do, we're just tinkering with it and trying to make it better. We're pretty close now. We went back and forth over the cut of the movie, which we're happy with now. We're just tinkering with the movie in post-production."
So then, a lot of tinkering is in effect; clearly AMITYVILLE is still under construction. Obviously at the moment the film doesn't have a release date, but based on Blum's word, we should be hearing something within the year. Let's hope it's worth the wait.
Read more at www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/exclusive-jason-blum-provides-an-amityville-the-awakening-update-334#8jqkOfmWyJvCKdOs.99
