The Conjuring 2 got a lot of mileage out of its demonic nun, who was both very scary and very pious. And now New Line Cinema is following the lead it established with the Annabelle-centric Conjuring spin-offs by giving the nun her own prequel, Corin Hardy’s The Nun. We know the nun—who is actually a demon named Valak—…
In April, an author named Gerald Brittle filed a $900 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. over the Conjuring movies, with Brittle claiming that he owns the exclusive rights to the stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren—real-life paranormal investigators and the protagonists of the Conjuring series. The Hollywood Reporter says
Once upon a time, a monster hit like The Conjuring, James Wan’s dubiously fact-based but highly effective spin on the haunted-house movie, would have inspired a series of lesser sequels and nothing more. But we’re living now in the age of the expanded universe, when franchises don’t follow a single forward path,…
The Conjuring spin-offs have been manifesting faster than ghosts at an abandoned mental institution over the past couple of years, with the first of those, Annabelle, even inspiring a sequel of its own. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that the OG Conjuring is getting another installment, as Deadline…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is still riding high and the DC Extended Universe just had its first real win, while Universal’s Dark Universe tripped on some tattered rags as it rose from its tomb. But while we were all preoccupied with those cinematic universes, New Line was quietly assembling its own collection of…
Way back in 2014, we reported that Warner Brothers had successfully dodged a couple of lawsuits related to its then-fledgling Conjuring series, but now The Hollywood Reporter says yet another lawsuit has materialized right behind the studio, and this one might be a bit harder to exorcise.
New Line has set a release date for The Nun, its latest spin-off from the apparently bottomless Conjuring franchise. The spectral bride of Christ (or whoever) in question originally debuted in last year’s The Conjuring 2, menacing Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson’s paranormal investigators. Now she’ll arrive in…
Way back in June, we reported that the demonic nun from James Wan’s The Conjuring 2 would be getting its own spin-off called The Nun, just like how the first Conjuring movie spawned Annabelle. Now, Deadline is reporting that Corin Hardy has signed on to direct the film, but we still don’t have any real details about…
Once upon a time, dear reader, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky were just like you: thirsty, sweaty, forced to pay money out of their own pockets to see movies. Then, they got low-paying customer-service jobs that let them see all the movies they wanted for free.
Faced with news reports of crushing sadness and horror, America expressed its desire this week to return to the blissful ignorance of infancy by spending $103 million on a movie about talking cats and dogs. Opening on 4,370 screens—the widest release ever for an animated film—The Secret Life Of Pets capitalized on a…
So long, Shrek. Take a hike, Minions. The title of the biggest opening ever for an animated movie has just passed to Pixar, where—the Cars movies aside—it probably belongs. Finding Dory, the studio’s latest unqualified moneymaker, brought home $136 million this weekend, adding another smash to Disney’s unstoppable…
James Wan’s Conjuring movies have not only somehow turned real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren into movie heroes, it also created a steadily growing legion of supernatural villains for them to battle against. The first movie introduced Annabelle, a spooky doll (based on a real spooky doll) that…
Three years have passed since the first battle between churchy paranormal investigator and haunted house…
After briefly trading haunted houses for skydiving cars, James Wan is back in the scaring business. This weekend brings The Conjuring 2, the sequel to his 2013 smash about real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). Back at Farmhouse Tavern, film staffers A.A. Dowd and…
First, the all-important question: Is The Conjuring 2 scary? Like, jump out of your seat, watch through your outstretched fingers scary? The answer to that is “yes.” Under James Wan’s direction, even the most clichéd haunted-house tropes (and this movie is bursting with them) are genuinely creepy, and although the…
Has The Conjuring sneakily kick-started a “cinematic universe” of its own? The ghost-hunting exploits of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren may not be the most likely source for a cross-movie franchise, but The Conjuring 2 marks the third time their research has been culled to scare the shit out…
Aside from being an exceptionally well-crafted (and therefore effective) haunted-house tale, the fun thing about James Wan’s 2013 horror hit The Conjuring was its connection to the real-life exploits of famed New England ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren. As with The Amityville Horror before it, after the movie…
It’s only been a few years since the first one, but for fans of James Wan’s The Conjuring, this sequel couldn’t come soon enough. Wan has proven himself a skilled and versatile director of old-school horror cinema, which may have been one reason he was eager to change up genres and take on a Fast and Furious movie, to…
Now that he’s had to work with Vin Diesel, director James Wan has decided the only horror show he should have to deal with is the one happening onscreen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the man responsible for The Conjuring and Furious 7 is optioning yet another scary story to turn into a film, this one being…
The Conjuring 2 has been plagued—some might say, cursed—with troubles from the beginning. The producers are embroiled in a court battle over who has the right to make money off someone else’s life story (even if that person’s still living). And the release date has been tossed about as if by a poltergeist. But the…
