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Bloody Mary: Origins is the latest iteration of a classic urban legend that inspired the macabre sleepover challenge. The film is expected to jumpstart its own horror film franchise just like the first Final Destination movie.

Deadline reports that Final Destination franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick has penned the story for Bloody Mary: Origins, a film based on the novel Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan. The adaptation will follow a group of teenage girls who invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary after discovering an incantation spell; things go awry when they fail to follow rules during a summoning season, allowing Bloody Mary to crossover and pull one of the girls into her dimension. The girls race to save their friend even as they avoid becoming Bloody Mary's next victim. The film focuses on the urban legend inspired by the story of Mary Worth, who according to folklore was a...

We've just learned of a new horror movie confirmed to be in the works, and it's called Bloody Mary: Origins. Not much is known about this film at the moment, but we shared what's been revealed so far below.

It's always a good day when there's an announcement about a new horror movie being made. Bloody Mary: Origins is said to be a new take on the classic urban legend of Bloody Mary. In the realm of horror, Bloody Mary refers to a legendary spirit believed to appear in mirrors when her name is repeatedly chanted. She's often depicted as a woman with a bloody and disfigured face. When summoned, there could be dire consequences for the summoner, such as the possibility of being cursed, physically harmed, or worse, by the evil spirit.

With Bloody Mary: Origins, Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick teams up with film producer Todd Slater (How the Gringo Stole Christmas...

Final Destination 6 is aiming for a 2025 theatrical release (IMAX screens included) – and next year we might also get a new movie from original Final Destination screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick, as Deadline reports that Reddick is teaming up with Convoke Media, Vast Entertainment, DreamPunk Entertainment, and Emmy-winning director Lane Shefter Bishop (The Venice Murders) to get a film called Bloody Mary: Origins into production.

Based on the novel Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan, Bloody Mary: Origins was scripted by Reddick and John Stancari – who, sadly, passed away in 2018 after a long battle with cancer. This is Stancari’s first produced film and will be dedicated to his memory. The story follows a group of teenage girls who discover an ancient spell that conjures the real Bloody Mary. When the terrifying entity pulls one of the girls through the mirror, she becomes trapped in the past, living out the real Mary Worth’s last days.

Jeffrey Reddick, creator of Final Destination, is working on a new spin on the Bloody Mary urban legend called Bloody Mary: Origins. The film, based on the New York Times bestselling book 'Mary: The Summoning', follows a group of teenage girls who discover an ancient spell and face the consequences. Bloody Mary: Origins aims to create a new franchise similar to Final Destination, with a release date yet to be set.

Jeffrey Reddick, the creator of the Final Destination franchise, is set to put a whole new spin on the Bloody Mary urban legend with his new piece, Bloody Mary: Origins. Originally written by Reddick as an episode of The X-Files in order to land the up-and-coming writer an agent, Final Destination would go on to become a hit movie, grossing $113 million at the box office and setting the stage for an entire franchise of films. To date, there...

Jeffrey Reddick, writer and creator of the long-running Final Destination horror franchise, is teaming up with Todd Slater on Bloody Mary: Origins, said to be a new spin on the classic urban legend per Deadline.

Bloody Mary: Origins is based on the New York Times bestseller Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan.

The film follows “a group of teenage girls who discover an ancient spell that conjures the real Bloody Mary. When the terrifying entity pulls one of the girls through the mirror, she becomes trapped in the past living out the real Mary Worth’s last days. With time running out, the others must discover a way to save their friend in the past while vanquishing a terrorizing Bloody Mary in the present.”

Emmy winner Lane Shefter Bishop (The Venice Murders) is set to direct and produce through her Vast Entertainment banner.

Reddick wrote the script with John Stancari,...

Exclusive: Writer Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the long-running Final Destination horror franchise, is teaming with producer Todd Slater and more on Bloody Mary: Origins, a chilling new take on the classic urban legend.

Hailing from Slater’s Convoke Media, Vast Entertainment and DreamPunk Entertainment, the film is based on the New York Times bestseller Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan. The story focuses on a group of teenage girls who discover an ancient spell that conjures the real Bloody Mary. When the terrifying entity pulls one of the girls through the mirror, she becomes trapped in the past living out the real Mary Worth’s last days. With time running out, the others must discover a way to save their friend in the past while vanquishing a terrorizing Bloody Mary in the present.

Reddick wrote the script with John Stancari, who passed away in 2018 after a long battle with cancer.

Titles all directed by ‘The Duff’ director Lane Shefter Bishop.

UK-based sales firm 101 Films International has acquired worldwide sales rights to six Christmas films, all directed by US filmmaker Lane Shefter Bishop.

101 is launching sales on all six titles at this week’s European Film Market.

The titles include An Eclectic Christmas, about the instructions left behind in the will of a vintage store owner; Christmas Beneath The Stars, in which a blogger helps an ex-military man restore a Christmas exhibition; and Christmas On The Rocks, when a lady pretends to be her event planner sister in order to save an important client.

Exclusive: NBC has put in development Brain Trust, a drama from Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, Neil Meron and Universal Television, where Charmelo and Snyder are under an overall deal.

Written by Charmelo, Snyder and Katie Lunskis, Brain Trust asks what would you do if you could project your mind into another person’s body? What if you could experience the life of anyone you wanted? The Brain Trust centers on a group of young grad students who have developed cutting-edge technology to do just that, but they soon will learn that everything has consequences — some darker than they could have ever imagined.

Charmelo and Snyder executive produce with Meron, Lane Shefter Bishop (The Duff), and Meron’s producing partner Mark Nicholson. Lunskis serves as a producer. Universal TV is the studio.

Charmelo and Snyder created and executive...

Carol Polakoff’s Viewfinder Pictures and Lane Shefter Bishop’s Vast Entertainment have optioned John Henry Browne’s autobiography The Devil’s Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre for development as an hourlong TV drama series. The project is being eyed for a premium cable network or streaming service with a 10- to 13-episode first season. The book, published this year by the Chicago Review Press, details the life…...

CBS Films (@CBSFilms) announced today that Mae Whitman (@maebirdwing), Robbie Amell (@RobbieAmell), Bella Thorne (@bellathorne), Bianca Santos (@Bianca00Alexa), Skyler Samuels (@SkylerSamuels), Nick Eversman (@NickEversman) and Ken Jeong (@kenjeong) will lead the cast of The Duff. Based on the acclaimed novel by Kody Keplinger (@Kody_Keplinger) The Duff was adapted for the screen by Josh A. Cagan (@joshacagan) and will be directed by Ari Sandel. McG (@McGsWonderland), Mary Viola (@ItsMaryViola), Susan Cartsonis (@SusanCartsonis) are producing with Lane Shefter Bishop (@LaneShefterBish) serving as executive producer on the comedy which will shoot in Atlanta (@gdecd) this summer.

Bianca (Mae Whitman) is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as The Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends (Skyler Samuels & Bianca Santos). Now, despite the words of caution from her favorite teacher (Ken Jeong), she puts aside the potential distraction of her crush,...

CBS Films (@CBSFilms) announced today that Mae Whitman (@maebirdwing), Robbie Amell (@RobbieAmell), Bella Thorne (@bellathorne), Bianca Santos (@Bianca00Alexa), Skyler Samuels (@SkylerSamuels), Nick Eversman (@NickEversman) and Ken Jeong (@kenjeong) will lead the cast of The Duff. Based on the acclaimed novel by Kody Keplinger (@Kody_Keplinger) The Duff was adapted for the screen by Josh A. Cagan (@joshacagan) and will be directed by Ari Sandel. McG (@McGsWonderland), Mary Viola (@ItsMaryViola), Susan Cartsonis (@SusanCartsonis) are producing with Lane Shefter Bishop (@LaneShefterBish) serving as executive producer on the comedy which will shoot in Atlanta (@gdecd) this summer.

Bianca (Mae Whitman) is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as The Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends (Skyler Samuels & Bianca Santos). Now, despite the words of caution from her favorite teacher (Ken Jeong), she puts aside the potential distraction of her crush,...

Nearly four years after producer McG optioned the book in 2010, his adaptation of The D.U.F.F. is moving forward, with Mae Whitman in talks to star.

The project is based on Kody Keplinger's book, which follows a 17-year-old girl (Mae Whitman) who must deal with the stigma of becoming the Designated Ugly Fat Friend (The D.U.F.F.) in her group of friends. She teams up with other D.U.F.F.'s to take down their school's nefarious leader, Madison.

Ari Sandel, who won an Oscar in 2006 for his short film West Bank Story, is directing from a script by Josh A. Cagan (Bandslam). McG is producing through his Wonderland Sound and Vision company, alongside Mary Viola and Lane Shefter Bishop. Production is scheduled to begin this summer in Atlanta.

Mae Whitman currently stars on the NBC drama series Parenthood, and she also lends her voice to the animated films The...

The telepic based on Diana Lopez’s novel Choke follows a teenager who flirts with disaster after being introduced to the “game” of intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain to get high. Freya Tingley (Hemlock Grove) stars in The Choking Game as Taryn, who is just starting her senior year when a charismatic new girl claims her as a “breath sister” as they take “flights” together. Frasier alum Peri Gilpin also stars in the Lifetime Original as Taryn’s mom, who tries to help after sensing that something is seriously wrong with her daughter. Directed by Lane Shefter Bishop and written by Jen Klein, the telefilm from Orly Adelson Productions is executive produced by Jonathan Eskenas, Lane Shefter Bishop, Marilyn R. Atlas and Orly Adelson. Related: Lifetime Develops Movie About Jesus’ Early Life With ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ Producer...

The perfect soldier is done taking orders. In case you’re not so familiar with Reboot, we’re here to inform you that it’s an upcoming young adult novel which comes from writer Amy Tintera. But, we’re not here to chat about the novel today, because we’ve just learned that Fox 2000 plans to adapt the whole thing for a big screen, and that Lindsay Devlin will be in charge!

Lindsay Devlin has more than 13 years experience working in the film and television industry as an executive, producer and writer. She worked as the head of the story department at Creative Artists Agency, and her latest writing endeavors include the supernatural thriller Nocturne and The Sleeping Beauty.

Now, she comes on board to write the script for Reboot, and we’re more than ready to give this young lady a try.

As for Tintera’s novel, it will...

Fox 2000 has hired writer Lindsay Devlin to adapt Amy Tintera's young adult novel Reboot.

The story is set in a post apocalyptic era where a deadly virus has taken over the world and deceased teenagers are being re-animated to become soldiers. Two of the zombie teens decide to work together and take down the evil organization that brought them back from the dead.

Chernin Entertainment's Peter Chernin is producing with Dylan Clark and Lane Shefter Bishop.

No production schedule has been released.

McG has scored the film rights to Kody Keplinger's coming-of-age novel "The Duff" reports Variety.

The story follows 17-year-old Bianca Piper, a cynical and loyal girl who realises she's very ordinary looking but makes up for it with smarts. She's also been labelled a Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by slimy school hunk Wesley Rush.

Desperate for a distraction from her troubled home life, she ends up kissing Wesley whose life is pretty screwed up as well. She soon realises she has fallen for the man she hated more than anyone.

McG and Lane Shefter Bishop will produce.

McG isn't the name that comes to mind when I think of a producer for the adaptation of a teen-centric novel about a girl who forms an enemies with benefits relationship with the hot dude she thinks she hates most. But there goes McG, optioning The Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) from 20-year old author Kody Keplinger, which he'll produce as a feature. Variety says McG will produce through his Wonderland Sound and Vision company, along with Lane Shefter Bishop from Vast Entertainment. Wonderland may be the key ingredient here, as the company also has shows like Chuck, Supernatural and Human Target in production, and is putting together the adaptation of I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I want to Be Your Class President, which certainly has a fantastic title. The thing to take away here is that McG quite well may not be the most powerful hand...

McG will has optioned "The Duff" which he would produce via his Wonderland Sound and Vision with Vast Entertainment. The Kody Keplinger coming-of-age novel stands of Designated Ugly Fat Friend and tells of a seventeen-year-old high school student who realizes she's close to hitting "duffness" and strugles to maintain her sense of identity and and her disorderly home life McG produces with Vast Entertainment 's Lane Shefter Bishop. Novel marks the debut of 20-year-old Keplinger. It will be released this fall by Poppy. Other adaptations of books being produced by Wonderland include "Dead Spy Running," adapted by Steve Gaghan as well as "I'm An Evil Genius and I Want to Be Your Class President," adapted by Josh Lieb.

McG has optioned the film rights to Kody Keplinger's coming-of-age novel "The Duff" (which stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend) and will produce through his Wonderland Sound and Vision with Vast Entertainment CEO Lane Shefter Bishop. Wonderland's Mary Viola will executive produce. Publisher Poppy describes the book as follows: Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her "Duffy," she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren't so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes...

Sandra Brown has sold the option on her 1996 legal thriller The Witness to TwinStar Entertainment.

It's the first time in her 27-year career that Brown, who has written 56 New York Times best-sellers and has 70 million copies of her books in print, has made a movie deal.

Broken Road Prods.' Todd Garner (Anger Management) and TwinStar executive vp Lane Shefter Bishop will produce the feature film version, with TwinStar CEO Russell Werdin executive producing.

Brown has turned down several offers to adapt her books over the years. "Some excellent books have been made into excellent movies, but just as often the film renditions were bad," she said. "For decades I've been developing a 'voice' my readers recognize and expect. Lane Bishop approached me with a full understanding and appreciation of that voice."

Witness centers on idealistic public defender Kendall Deaton, who discovers a dark secret in the forest near her small South Carolina town. It leads her to turn state's witness against her white supremacist ex-husband and father-in-law as she struggles to discover whom she can trust.