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Horror fans, rejoice. As we inch closer to the spooky months, Scream Factory is giving one supernatural horror a 4K steelbook treatment. Director Stiles White’s 2014 horror feature Ouija will be available in September for fans to binge the film at their leisure. The movie, which follows a group of teenagers who unleash terrors unknown when they play the titular game, is a decent spooky season watch, and stars House of the Dragon’s Olivia Cooke in the lead role.

Per Bloody Disgusting, the steelbook will feature new artwork by Orlando Arocena, and the movie will be presented in 4K with Dolby Vision. Want more? The steelbook comes with bonus content, including an audio commentary with co-writer/director White and a commentary with producer Brad Fuller. Fans will also be treated to featurettes, including "The Spirit Board: An Evolution," "Icon of the Unknown," and "Adapting the Fear," along with theatrical...

Scream Factory will release Ouija on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 9 and Mama on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 30.

Featuring new artwork by Orlando Arocena, 2014’s Ouija is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision.

Produced by Blumhouse, Platinum Dunes, and Hasbro, Stiles White makes his directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Juliet Snowden.

Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, and Bianca A. Santos star.

Disc 1 – 4K Uhd:

Presented In Dolby Vision (Hdr-10 Compatible) Audio: DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1, DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Director Stiles White Audio Commentary With Producer Brad Fuller

Disc 2 – Blu-ray:

Audio: DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1, DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Director Stiles White Audio Commentary With Producer Brad Fuller The Spirit Board: An Evolution Icon Of The Unknown Adapting The Fear Ouija Theatrical Trailer Ouija: Origin of Evil Theatrical Trailer

A group of friends must confront their...

The best Olivia Cooke movies and TV shows reveal one of the most consistently uphill career trajectories of any actor to enter the spotlight in the last few decades and include a staggeringly consistent number of critically acclaimed projects. Born in 1993 in the UK, Olivia Cooke is most widely recognized for her role as Alicent Hightower in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, as well as shows like Bates Motel and highly celebrated movies such as Sound of Metal and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Olivia Cooke’s on-screen career started in 2012 in BBC miniseries like Blackout and The Secret of Crickley Hall. However, it was the 2014 horror The Quiet Ones (which was filmed several years before it released) that allowed her to lay the foundations of her career. Word of Cooke’s performance in The Quiet Ones quickly spread, and from there the...

The Ouija: Origin of Evil episode of The Black Sheep was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Brandon Nally, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

The Ouija board, and that’s weejee board not weeja board with all due respect to Joe Bob Briggs, has been a constant source of fascination since it’s inception in 1890. Ghostly movements and other supernatural appearances went back further than that and there were crude inceptions before 1890 but that’s when the board as we know it came about. It was commercialized sometime later and of course; it’s showed up as a device in horror movies ever since. The Witchboard series that started in 1986 is probably the most popular series that features the spirit communicator but another, more straightforward series called Ouija is also out there. While the first one that came out in...

Hany Abu-Assad, who most recently directed Fox’s “The Mountain Between Us,” has come on to direct the adaptation of the popular comic book “Infidel” for TriStar Pictures.

TriStar landed the rights to the comic in May in a competitive auction that saw several studios pursuing before TriStar won the bidding war. Academy Award-winner Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta of Sugar 23 are attached to produce the project along with Anonymous Content.

Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are penning the script.

Written by Pornsak Pichetshote and illustrated by Aaron Campbell and released in March by Image Comics, “Infidel” is a haunted house story for the 21st century, following an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who find themselves living in a building haunted by strange creatures that seemingly feed on xenophobia.

Nicole Brown and Nick Krishnamurthy will oversee the project for TriStar Pictures.

Abu-Assad’s star has been on the...

Project details nowhere to be found.

Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail will direct a film about the infamous Bermuda Triangle for Universal Pictures.

Esmail will write the script from earlier drafts by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, and Juliet Snowden & Stiles White.

The Bermuda Triangle is a region over the Caribbean that earned notoriety several decades ago for press coverage about a number of planes and ships that reportedly went missing after travelling through the area.

Appropriately enough, Esmail, his fellow producers, and Universal are keeping plot details under wraps.

Dylan Clark (Planet Of The Apes series, Oblivion) will produce through his Universal-based Dylan Clark Productions, alongside Esmail and Chad Hamilton for Esmail Corp.  Millar and Gough will serve as executive producers

As previously announced, Esmail is lining up the Amazon Studios project Homecoming to star Julia Roberts.

Universal Cable Productions and Anonymous Content will produce that show, based on a fiction podcast by Gimlet Media about a...

Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail will write, and is attached to direct, a new take on Universal's Bermuda Triangle project.

Earlier drafts of the untitled project were written by Miles Millar & Alfred Gough, and Juliet Snowden & Stiles White. Details of the plot are being kept under wraps. The mysterious Caribbean area known as the Bermuda Triangle stretches between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Over the years, several ships and planes have disappeared in the area under mysterious circumstances. Theories about paranormal or alien causes have long swirled around these strange disappearances.

Dylan Clark (Planet of the...

Ouija director Stiles White has come on board the supernatural thriller Forgotten for Ld Entertainment, Variety reported. White will team with his spouse and writing partner Juliet Snowden to pen the script. The duo also teamed on the scripts for Boogeyman, Knowing, and The Possession. The film is set on a remote island where two women reunite […]...

Horror legend Sam Raimi has signed on to direct a new Bermuda Triangle mystery thriller project for Skydance Productions. The thriller is actually one of three separate films currently in development about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle, with one set up at Universal and the other being worked on at Warner Bros. No plot details have been given for any of these projects, with each studio worried about their own takes getting leaked.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the project's plot details are being kept a secret so much that Sam Raimi had to visit the Skydance Productions offices just to read the script. While the story details are being kept under wraps, it was revealed that the script itself was written by the writing team of Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, whose writing credits include The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and the Netflix series Narcos.

Skydance Productions is reportedly developing a film based on the legendary and mysterious Caribbean area of the Bermuda Triangle.

Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard ("Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") are rewriting an original screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (2009's "Friday the 13th").

Running between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, the inexplicable disappearances of planes and ships in the area over the years have been rumored to be due to paranormal or extraterrestrial causes.

The area is hot right now for filmmakers as both Universal and Warner Bros. Pictures are also developing movies about the area. "Ouija" screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are presently rewriting the script for the Universal version. There's also another version penned by Dan Kunka which is sitting at Warners and which Charles Roven is slated to produce.

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You’ve got to laugh sometimes at the way Hollywood works – despite last fall’s Ouija being absolutely, appallingly awful on nearly every count, the horror pic grossed a surprisingly strong $102.5 million against a chump-change $5 million budget. And so, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, the scribes behind that faulty frightener (which rests at 7% on Rotten Tomatoes), aren’t just finding more work – they’re being brought in to improve already-written scripts.

Universal has tapped the screenwriters, who also wrote The Possession and Knowing (both bad), to rewrite its untitled Bermuda Triangle pic, which centers on the conspiracy-laden stretch of water between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where multiple ships and planes have inexplicably disappeared over the years. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar brought the pitch for the pic to Universal back in March of 2012 – along with Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark, they’ll be involved as producers.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Jennifer Lawrence has used her Facebook account to post a new photo of herself as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2". Interestingly the pic also includes a June 9th date which could well be the premiere date for a new trailer for the film. [Source: Facebook]

Black Belle

Zoe Kravitz ("Divergent") has joined the cast of the post-Civil War gritty western "Black Belle" which begins shooting in September. Shana Betz helms from a script by Tasha Huo.

Kravitz will play a gunslinging loner/bounty hunter who specializes in revenge killing when a client shows up with information about her mother’s murderer. Things take a turn when she realizes just who the alleged killer really is. [Source: Deadline]

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Director Justin Kurzel and writer Michael Lesslie, whose pairing on the Shakespeare adaptation "Macbeth" was the toast of this year's Cannes Film Festival, are...

Ouija, the teen horror from first-time director Stiles White, may not have spoken to the critics much, but managed to manifest a healthy box-office haul. It beat John Wick to the top of the charts on its opening weekend last October, and currently boasts a worldwide haul just under $100m. You might think a sequel was inevitable. And you'd be right! Universal has broken out the board again.The first film starred Olivia Cooke, and White himself wrote the screenplay with his regular cohort Juliet Snowden (Boogeyman, Knowing, The Possession). In an intriguing change, however, the sequel will be working from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard, who were behind last year's excellent Oculus. Perhaps this will be one of those rare occasions when a follow-up drastically improves on its predecessor. It's unclear at this stage whether Flanagan is interested in directing Ouija 2.Elsewhere the roster is the same,...

The frightening secrets and legends of the infamous ‘Ouija’ board are finally being revealed. In celebration of the home release of the horror film, which was unveiled today on Blu-ray and DVD, Shockya is debuting a new exclusive clip from the game’s big-screen adaptation. The clip also honors the feature film directorial debut of Stiles White, who’s also co-scribed the script with his frequent writing partner, Juliet Snowden. The two previously scribed such horror feature films as ‘The Possession’ and ‘Boogeyman,’ as well as the horror short, ‘The Need,’ and the action mystery drama, ‘Knowing.’ The exclusive ‘Ouija’ clip follows a Ouija board that’s placed on a red carpet. As [ Read More ]

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We’re back with another horror news round-up, this time focusing on a recent seance event that took place in Hollywood ahead of Universal’s home media release of Ouija. We also have acquisition details on Joe Dante’s zom com, Burying the Ex, as well as news on another supernatural pilot order from The CW, and new images from Epic Pictures Group’s upcoming horror anthology movie, Tales of Halloween.

A Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes film from Universal Pictures, Ouija comes out on Blu-ray and DVD today and to celebrate the film’s home media release, Universal recently hosted a get-together in Hollywood that included Jason Blum and real life Ouija guru Robert Murch (an advisor on the film), who showed those in attendance how to conduct a proper seance:

“CEO of Blumhouse Pictures Jason Blum, director Stiles White, actress Bianca Santos, and Ouija historian & expert Robert Murch...

Laine would do anything to get one more chance to talk with Debbie. But her best friend is dead, and it looks like they will never communicate again… until Laine finds the Ouija board in Debbie’s room. From Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Ouija stars Bates Motel’s Olivia Cooke and hits home media on February 3rd, and we’ve been provided with two Blu-ray copies to give away.

“After Debbie (Shelley Hennig, “Teen Wolf”) suddenly dies, her best friend Laine (Olivia Cooke, “Bates Motel,”) attempts to contact her using an antique Ouija board she finds in Debbie’s room. When the curious teen begins asking the board questions and stumbles upon the mystery of her friend’s death, Laine discovers a resident spirit calling itself Dz, and eerie, inexplicable events begin to follow her. The group of friends digs deeper into the history of Debbie’s house and are...

Although it didn't fare well with the nation's critics, with just a 7% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, those who enjoyed last fall's Ouija will be getting a sequel, according to producer Bradley Fuller. While conducting an interview with Collider for Project Almanac, the producer confirmed that a Ouija sequel is in development, although he would not confirm any plot or casting details, only that, "Ouija 2 is coming." It isn't know if Bradley Fuller and his producing partner Andrew Form have hired a screenwriter to craft the story at this time.

While Ouija certainly wasn't a critical hit, the thriller did take in $90.6 million worldwide from just a $5 million production budget. Those numbers are similar to another Universal Pictures' low-budget hit, The Purge, which took in $89.3 million from a $3 million budget, and last year's follow-up The Purge: Anarchy, which bested its predecessor with $110 million worldwide from a $9 million budget. Both...

PG-13 rated horror from the land of Blumhouse, granted. But Ouija has one or two things going for it...

When you're basing a big screen movie off of something other than a book or a successful television show or another movie, you're looking for trouble. When you base your film off of a popular childhood toy, you're setting yourself up for failure. You have to be amazingly creative to pull that little trick off, something the Pixar clan accomplished with the Toy Story films and Miller and Lord pulled off with the world of Lego. However, those games are all friendly, colorful games. There's a darker game sitting on shelves with the Hasbro stamp, and that's the Ouija board.

Part toy, part hoax, part occult tool, the Ouija has a unique place in popular culture. Popularized in the Western world by American spiritualist Pearl Cullan circa Wwi as a tool to contact the dead,...

Chicago – Out of respect for the filmmakers and actors, I don’t walk out on films. I hold true to that even when I know in the first 10 minutes the film’s not for me. Perhaps the second act could surprise me. Maybe the whole film is a flop but it redeems itself with shock and awe in the last 5 minutes.

Rating: 1.0/5.0

But let’s be honest: As much as you can tell yourself you’ll walk into “Ouija” with an open mind, it’s impossible to have high hopes about this latest “horror” film in a tiresome string of formulaic attempts. You’re not expecting Oscar-caliber performances and that’s why these kinds of films can get away with casting no one you’ve ever heard of.

This time, Olivia Cooke takes center stage. You might remember her if you saw this year’s sci-fi flop “The Signal” with Laurence Fishburne.

While there are an unlimited number of brilliantly eloquent metaphors a film critic can use to describe what an utter travesty Ouija is, no words need to be uttered beyond “Ouija is bad.” I could end my review right there and you’d all be wiser knowing that simple descriptor, plus I wouldn’t have to waste another 600 or so words explaining why Ouija embodies everything wrong with today’s mainstream horror scene. Writer/Director Stiles White and co-writer Juliet Snowden take a steaming, repugnant turd directly onto the horror genre’s chest and don’t even say thank you, laughing their way into theaters nationwide.

But who am I kidding? Ouija is going to walk away a box office champion when the weekend numbers are tallied, so my disapproval really won’t mean a lick in the grand scheme of things. Movies of this quality level will still cheaply...

Although Summer has long passed, it’s not too late for another youth-oriented movie adaptation. So, what is it, another flick based on a popular series of “young adult” novels, or perhaps a “tear-jerker” like The Fault In Our Stars or If I Stay? Is it another comic book or classic TV show getting the big screen treatment? Nope, this is based on a game. But not a video or computer game like the Lara Croft franchise or the recent Need For Speed. It’s an “old school” board game, one that’s been around for ages. The box office sinking of Battleship has not deterred the folks at Hasbro Films (an off-shoot of the toy empire). After all, GI Joe and those Transformers are still raking in the bucks. Plus The Lego Movie’s success will spawn a trio of spin-offs. Oh, and there’s a chance of cross-over...

"Ouija" is professionally made, a classically-styled ghost story/mystery, and perhaps the single strangest piece of product placement ever made. It is also, unfortunately, so by-the-numbers that it feels like it was made by a computer program designed to simulate horror films. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White have been co-writers on films like "The Possession" and "Knowing," but this time out, White is also directing. He knows what he's doing, and the way the film is made, it looks and feels exactly like it's supposed to feel. It is the very model of what Blumhouse wants to make. It's slick. It's simple and self-contained. It has a very immediate and understandable hook. It should work. It doesn't, though, and it's an exercise in frustration as a result. When Debbie (Shelley Hennig) apparently kills herself, her best friend Laine (Olivia Cooke) has a hard time accepting it as a suicide. She...

After doing rigorous testing, i.e., sitting through “Ouija”, we can now confirm that you can, in fact, jump out of your seat with fear and roll your eyes at the same time. This film is effectively scary, filled with plenty of jump moments and a few slow-burning scenes, but the scares aren’t enough to balance the poor writing and lack of imagination. We can’t help but wonder what movie would have resulted had a version from Marti Noxon (of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the underrated “Fright Night” remake) actually made it to the screen. She was attached to the script, but this Hasbro-produced film shuffled through a number of writers and filmmakers before finally landing on first-time director Stiles White, who wrote the script with Juliet Snowden. The pair had previously worked together on critical disasters “The Possession,” “Knowing” and “Boogeyman.” But instead of Noxon’s...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new horror film “Ouija” from Jason Blum (producer of the “Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious” and “The Purge” films) and the producer of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”!

“Ouija,” which opens on Oct. 24, 2014 and is rated “PG-13,” stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Ana Coto, Douglas Smith, Shelley Hennig, Sierra Heuermann and Bianca Santos from writer and director Stiles White and writer Juliet Snowden.

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Don’t lie, you played the game. Your parents warned you not to play it in your house but you did it anyway. Now, experience the film – Ouija!! We have some passes for you lucky souls to possess. Read on to find out how to score the passes.

In Ouija, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. Stiles White directs the supernatural thriller that is produced by Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (The Purge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th) alongside Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and Insidious series, The Purge), Bennett Schneir (Battleship) and Hasbro. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White wrote the script for Ouija, and Universal will distribute the film worldwide.

Ouija has been rated PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned – Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Children Under 13) for disturbing violent content,...

Open Your Mind: It’s Not Just a Game.

This Halloween, find out what happens when a deadly presence refuses to go in the new film, Ouija.

Universal Pictures presents a Platinum Dunes/Blumhouse production—in association with Hasbro Studios to bring to the screen Ouija, a supernatural thriller in which a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they unwittingly make contact with a dark power from the other side. What started as a game will unleash an evil only they can stop.

Stiles White (writer of The Possession, Knowing) makes his directorial debut with the supernatural thriller that is written by White and Juliet Snowden (The Possession, Knowing).

Starring Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Bianca Santos, Ouija opens in theaters October 24.

Wamg invites you to enter for a chance to win passes (Good for 2) to the advance screening of Ouija on October 22nd at 7Pm in the St.

(Cbr) Cynical people tend to say films based on toys and games are just there to sell more products. We’re not quite sure that’s the case with Hasbro’s "Ouija," as it revolves around a group of kids bringing something evil over from the other side while using the spirit board to try to contact a dead friend. That’s some pretty twisted advertising! Speaking of which, a U.K. version of the first trailer just hit, featuring a lot of previously seen footage. The film stars "Bates Motel" actress Olivia Cooke as well as fellow up-and-comers Ana Coto, Bianca A. Santos, Douglas Smith and Daren Kagasoff. Stiles White, who previously worked in the special effects field, directed from a script he wrote with Juliet Snowden. If you’re curious about trying your hand at the planchette, you can check out the film’s official site,which has...

Universal Pictures have unchained the latest and chilling trailer for the Blumhouse produced 'Ouija'. It arrives in Us theatres on 24 October and bang on Halloween for us here in the UK. The movie comes courtesy of 'The Possession' writing duo Juliet Snowden and Stiles White with White on board to helm marking his directorial debut. The flick stars Olivia Cooke ('Bates Motel'), Daren Kagasoff ('The Secret Life of the American Teenager'), Douglas Smith ('Stage Fright'), Bianca A. Santos ('The Fosters'), Erin Moriarty ('The Watch'), Ana Coto ('DisCONNECTED') and Vivis Colombetti ('Paranormal Activity 2'). Check the trailer below....

A supernatural board game comes to life in disturbing and violent ways in the new U.K. trailer for Universal Pictures' Ouija, arriving in theaters October 24.

Olivia Cooke (The Quiet Ones, Bates Motel) stars as Elaine Morris, who convinces her friends to use a Ouija board, in order to communicate with their deceased friend. They unleash a terrifying paranormal force that may destroy them all in director Stiles White's thriller, which is produced by Jason Blum and Michael Bay.

In Ouija, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. Stiles White directs the supernatural thriller that is produced by Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller (The Purge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th alongside Blumhouse Productions' Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and Insidious series, The Purge), Bennett Schneir (Battleship) and Hasbro.

Board game movies aren’t quite as common now as we might have guessed a few years ago, when Hasbro put about a million of them into development. But they aren’t entirely dead. There’s one coming this fall based on the slumber party staple Ouija, from Knowing writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. While that admittedly […]

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There aren't a lot of promising opportunities for big screen horror this fall it seems, but Universal Pictures is going to try to rake in the Halloween audiences with Ouija, their supernatural horror adventure inspired by the creepy "board game" of the same name. But as the tagline so obviously points out, this isn't a game. A new theatrical trailer has arrived, and while it's a little better than the first teaser trailer, it still hits every horror cliche you would expect in a film like this from creepy dolls to laughing kids. Though I like the use of the game board eyepiece, Everything else seems so predictable and full of cheap jump scares. Watch below! Here's the UK trailer for Stiles White's Ouija from YouTube (via The Playlist): Ouija is directed by Stiles White, director of Boogeyman, The Possession and Knowing, who co-wrote the script with Juliet Snowden,...

“You damn fool kids will never learn,” said the tubby fisherman in The Blair Witch Project. While that plaid-clad chap was referring to the meddlesome antics of three young filmmakers in the woods, his brief mutter still stands true in regards to the activities in most teen horrors today. Which ties in nicely, as a new trailer proves that’s still very much the case in the upcoming horror film, Ouija.

If you haven’t already guessed, the movie involves a gaggle of youngsters who happen upon a Ouija board and attempt to rouse a spirit from the afterlife. Co-written by Stiles White and Juliet Snowden, and directed by the former, it’s guaranteed to hit the spot for audiences venturing to the theatre this Halloween. Today’s trailer, brought to you by Universal, delivers sufficient teases for the late show crowds.

Does the tale of a bunch of kids...

A new trailer is now online for Universal Pictures’ upcoming supernatural thriller Ouija, starring Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Bianca Santos, and Ana Coto.

The film is directed by Stiles White from a screenplay he wrote along with Juliet Snowden.

In theaters this Halloween, Ouija follows a group of friends who must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Have a look at the new Trailer below.

We’re still very much in the midst of August, but Universal is already taking steps to ensure that Ouija will be a familiar name by the time October rolls around. A new TV spot for the upcoming horror title has landed online, tightening footage we already saw in the first theatrical preview into a concise, if less scary teaser.

Ouija is one of a few horror pics that will be competing for your screams (and hard-earned cash) come Halloween – earlier in the month, we’ll be getting The Conjuring spinoff Annabelle, anthology ABCs of Death 2, horror-tinged battle epic Dracula Untold and freaky threequel V/H/S Viral. So what sets this one apart? Its young, photogenic cast (which includes a wealth of supporting players from teen-targeted TV) might be enough.

Douglas Smith (HBO’s Big Love) and Olivia Cooke (A&E’s Bates Motel) topline a cast which also...

Sitting by your TV waiting on the new Ouija extended TV spot? Then you are a weirdo and that's why we love you. In fact, we dig you so much we have the video you've been waiting on right here. Look for the film in theatres on October 24th.

Bianco Santos ("The Fosters"), Erin Moriarty ("Red Widow"), newcomer Ana Coto, Paranormal Activity 2 actress Vivis Colombetti, Olivia Cooke ("Bates Motel"), Douglas Smith, Daren Kagasoff, and Matthew Settle star in Ouija, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions, and Hasbro.

Stiles White is in the director's chair, working from a script he wrote with Juliet Snowden.

Synopsis:

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

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A new 60-sec TV Trailer is now online for Universal Pictures’ upcoming supernatural thriller Ouija, starring Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Bianca Santos, and Ana Coto.

The film is directed by Stiles White from a screenplay he wrote along with Juliet Snowden.

In theaters this Halloween, Ouija follows a group of friends who must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Have a look at the TV Trailer below.

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Fox has locked in a July 24, 2015, release date for the remake of the classic flick Poltergeist so make note, throw away your television, and begin seeking portly short women to come and make your house "clean". Or just read on for more details, you lazy bastard.

Rosemarie DeWitt, Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris, Kyle Catlett, Saxon Sharbino, Nicholas Braun, and Jane Adams star in a revisionist take on the classic horror film. David Lindsay-Abaire, Juliet Snowden, and Stiles White worked on the screenplay. Gil Keenan directs the 3D redux.

Synopsis

A family struggling to make ends meet relocates to an outdated suburban home and is confronted by an angry spirit who kidnaps their youngest daughter and challenges them to band together to rescue her from the clutches of evil.

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Heading to cinemas in October is Ouija. And we've got the first trailer here...

Trailer

Unlike last year, this October actually has a few horror films scheduled in and around Halloween. One of them is the latest low budget Jason Blum-produced movie Ouija, that Universal is releasing into cinemas.

The film stars Olivia Cooke, and has been directed by Stiles White (who co-wrote the screenplay with Juliet Snowden). As you might expect, the subject matter concerns a bunch of friends and a Ouija board. And the first trailer has been released, which suggests that a jump or two may be in order for Halloween.

Ouija arrives in cinemas on October 24th.

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Just in time for Halloween, have a look at the first trailer for Universal Pictures’ supernatural thriller Ouija. The film stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Bianca Santos, and Ana Coto.

In Ouija, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Stiles White directs the supernatural thriller that is produced by Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (The Purge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th) alongside Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and Insidious series, The Purge), Bennett Schneir (Battleship) and Hasbro. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White wrote the script for Ouija, and Universal will distribute the film worldwide.

Ouija opens on October 24th.

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After letting it float around theatres for a few weeks, the house that the classic monsters built, Universal, has finally made the trailer for Ouija available online. Look for the film in theatres on October 24th.

Bianco Santos ("The Fosters"), Erin Moriarty ("Red Widow"), newcomer Ana Coto, Paranormal Activity 2 actress Vivis Colombetti, Olivia Cooke ("Bates Motel"), Douglas Smith, Daren Kagasoff, and Matthew Settle star in Ouija, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions, and Hasbro.

Stiles White is in the director's chair, working from a script he wrote with Juliet Snowden.

Synopsis:

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!

Got news? Click here to submit it!

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The new trailer is now for Universal Pictures’ upcoming supernatural thriller Ouija, starring Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, Bianca Santos, and Ana Coto.

The film is directed by Stiles White from a screenplay he wrote along with Juliet Snowden.

In theaters this Halloween, Ouija follows a group of friends who must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Have a look at the trailer along with the poster and photos from the film.

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The trailer has been playing in theaters for nearly a month now, and with the release of The Purge: Anarchy coming this weekend, Universal Pictures has finally decided to unleash the trailer for their next horror venture Ouija. Inspired by the creepy, supernatural "board game" of the same name, the film follows a group of friends who get caught up in the dark powers of this mystical board, forcing each of them to confront unimaginable horrors. Actually, by the looks of this trailer, the horrors are pretty basic, and don't really offer anything in the vein of a promising story. It just hits every cliche in the book pretty hard. Watch! Here's the first trailer for Stiles White's Oujia, from the "Pretty Little Liars" Facebook page: Ouija is directed by Stiles White, director of Boogeyman, The Possession and Knowing, who co-wrote the script with Juliet Snowden, the co-writer of all those films.

The house that the classic monsters built, Universal, announced earlier that Ouija would be hitting theatres this year on October 24th, and right now we have a look at the title card. Sit tight... we also hear that a trailer is well on its way and may be here as early as today!

Bianco Santos ("The Fosters"), Erin Moriarty ("Red Widow"), newcomer Ana Coto, Paranormal Activity 2 actress Vivis Colombetti, Olivia Cooke ("Bates Motel"), Douglas Smith, Daren Kagasoff, and Matthew Settle star in the film, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions, and Hasbro.

Stiles White is in the director's chair, working from a script he wrote with Juliet Snowden.

Synopsis:

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

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More release news has come from the house that the classic monsters built as Universal has announced that Ouija will be hitting theatres this year on October 24th. Read on for more including the first plot details.

Bianco Santos ("The Fosters"), Erin Moriarty ("Red Widow"), newcomer Ana Coto, Paranormal Activity 2 actress Vivis Colombetti, Olivia Cooke ("Bates Motel"), Douglas Smith, Daren Kagasoff, and Matthew Settle star in the film, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions, and Hasbro.

Stiles White is in the director's chair, working from a script he wrote with Juliet Snowden.

In the flick "a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board."

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Most of the big 80s horror franchises ventured into the world of 3D at one point or another, but one series that never asked you to slap on those blue and red glasses was Poltergeist. That all changes next year, however, when the reboot haunts theaters. Read on!

In an interview with Beyond the Trailer, star Jared Harris (The Quiet Ones) briefly talked about the Sam Raimi-produced remake, revealing that it will be released in 3D.

Considering we never heard anything about this before, we're inclined to believe the film is being converted in post-production, though we don't yet know for sure. Check out the full interview below!

Twentieth Century Fox has announced a Valentine’s Day weekend release for the Poltergeist remake. Gil Kenan is currently lensing the film that will hit theaters February 13, 2015.

Harris will play Carrigan, a larger than life TV personality who left the world...

After languishing in development for years, Universal Pictures and Platinum Dunes are finally moving forward on their remake of The Birds, bringing aboard director Diederik Van Rooijen.

The 1963 original classic The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a socialite who moves from San Francisco to a small town in Northern California, which comes under attack by a number of different bird species. Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette starred in the thriller.

The script has been worked on by a number of writers, including Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Leslie Dixon, although it isn't known which draft is being used.

Michael Bay is producing alongside his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form, and Mandalay Films' Peter Guber and David Zelonalso. No production schedule was given.

Diederik Van Rooijen is best known for directing foreign films such as Taped, Daylight,...

Another tidbit of official release information today comes directly from the camp of Blumhouse Productions' upcoming board game chiller 'Ouija'. Based on the classic demon summoning Hasbro game the movie revolves around a group of friends - who you guessed it - unleash a dark force into their lives. 'Ouija' is set to hit theatres from 24 October 2014, just in time for the Halloween season. The project sees 'The Possession' writing duo Juliet Snowden and Stiles White co-direct with Olivia Cooke -below ('Bates Motel'), Daren Kagasoff ('The Secret Life of the American Teenager'), Douglas Smith ('Stage Fright'), Bianca A. Santos ('The Fosters'), Erin Moriarty ('The Watch'), Ana Coto ('DisCONNECTED') and Vivis Colombetti ('Paranormal Activity 2') all on board to stay....

Universal Pictures is making some changes to their release schedule and we have new dates and official plot details for both Ouija and Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak:

Ouija: “In Ouija, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. Stiles White directs the supernatural thriller that is produced by Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (The Purge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th) alongside Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity and Insidious series, The Purge), Bennett Schneir (Battleship) and Hasbro. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White wrote the script for Ouija, and Universal will distribute the film worldwide.”

Ouija will be released on October 24th, 2014.

Crimson Peak: “Legendary Pictures’ Crimson Peak, a co-production with Universal Pictures, is a haunting gothic horror story directed by the master of dark fairy tales,...

Adding to their already-impressive line-up for the next two years, Universal has officially announced release dates along with synopses for some of their most anticipated projects, including the recently-confirmed Pitch Perfect 2 and Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak.

In chronological order, the studio reveals that As Above, So Below, the psychological thriller from John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine), will be opening on August 15th, 2014.

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the secret of what this city of the dead was meant to contain. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all. Written by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (Quarantine, Devil) and directed by John Erick Dowdle,...

Hey, remember when Hollywood made original films? No? True, it has been awhile. Instead the powers that be continue to recycle and reuse ideas and plot devices from the movie-making days of yore, preferring to spend money on reboots, remakes, and sequels rather than actually come up with something unique. The most recent entry into the ‘unnecessary remakes’ genre is Poltergeist, which finally has a release date for 2015.

The Poltergeist remake will semi-update the original 1982 film from Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg. This time, a family having money troubles relocates to an outdated suburban home, where a spirit kidnaps their youngest daughter. The plot is fairly close to the original, although I suppose we can maybe expect a few new scares. I certainly hope so, otherwise what’s the point?

This new Poltergeist will likely be a bit bloodier and more violent than the original, if the current trend in...