Amblin Movie ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Sounds Like ‘Knives Out’ Meets ‘Cocoon’

Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning. It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s […]

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“We’re a Long Way From Giving Up” – Jason Blum Updates On the ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Movie

As we’ve now reported several times over the years, Blumhouse and Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon have been developing a film adaptation of the games for quite a while now, with Gremlins writer Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) most recently attached to direct. Columbus is now off the project, alas. “Chris Columbus […]

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‘Gremlins’ Writer Chris Columbus Turning His “House of Secrets” Books into a Series for Disney+

The writer of Gremlins and The Goonies, and director of Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and The Christmas Chronicles 2, Chris Columbus has set up his next project, with THR reporting that Columbus will be adapting his House of Secrets novels into a series for Disney+. The three novels, which debuted in […]

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