EXCLUSIVE: After scoring the big deal at the Toronto Film Festival with Neon for TIFF’s People’s Choice Award winner The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are right back at it. The Dish hears their next collaboration will be Carrie, this time in an eight-episode series for Amazon…

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The TIFF People's Choice Award is usually a bellwether to the Oscars, but this year the prize reflects rather more deep-seated global concerns among the voters than just the race to Best Picture. Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King…

As another Friday the 13th came and went, Mike Flanagan shared some bittersweet camp memories. The Life of Chuck director shared praise for Bryan Fuller‘s version of the Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, from Peacock and A24, after the project found a new showrunner in Brad Caleb…

LIFE OF CHUCKSection: Special PresentationsDirector: Mike FlanaganScreenwriter: Flanagan Logline: A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.Panelists: Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan…

American filmmaker Mike Flanagan will be the featured guest at Quebec's Fantasia International Film Festival, where he will receive the festival's Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award. Flanagan has a long history with the Canadian genre festival. He screened his first feature, Absentia, at the…

Universal has set its new Exorcist movie from Doctor Sleep helmer Mike Flanagan on an appropriate date. The pic from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek will attack theaters on Friday the 13th — March 13, 2026. The film is described as a “radical new take” on the venerable horror franchise that has been…

Blumhouse has made official that which is already out there: Doctor Sleep filmmaker Mike Flanagan is writing, directing and producing “a radical new take” on The Exorcist in a new film with the genre producer and Morgan Creek.  This all comes in the wake of the last movie, The Exorcist: Believer…

Renowned genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Life of Chuck) is in talks to direct the next Exorcist film for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Uni and Blumhouse declined comment. Should a deal make, Flanagan would take over the reins from David Gordon Green, who exit…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Stuckmann and Aaron B. Koontz of Paper Street Pictures have added genre specialists Mike Flanagan, Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka of Intrepid Pictures as executive producers on their record-breaking Kickstarter-backed horror film Shelby Oaks, which is in post-production. The 2022…

There’s a lot to unpack to properly adapt The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. There have been past efforts that fell flat, and now there’s a writer’s strike that has tied up producton. But director Mike Flanagan remains optimistic that he can bring home a compelling version, as he related Thurday…

EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Sleep filmmaker Mike Flanagan has pitched a feature version of Clayface over at the studio several sources tell Deadline, however, no word on greenlight yet — and the studio has not said ‘No’. There are no offers and no deals. Though typically a DC supervillain, in the Flanagan pic…