Peter Safran Movie Updates

The project is looking to go before cameras in January or February 2018 with a likely release in 2019, sources say.

New Line Cinema is getting to work on a Conjuring 2 spinoff based around the character of the Crooked Man.

Mel Gibson is in negotiations to star in Every Other Weekend, an action-adventure project that will be directed by French filmmaker Benjamin Rocher.

Warner Bros and New Line have made an October 3 date with Annabelle, the doll from their horror hit The Conjuring.

Lionsgate has acquired North American and UK distribution rights to The Choice, an adaptation of the 2007 Nicholas Sparks novel that has a script by Bryan Sipe, with Sparks, Theresa Park and Peter Safran producing.

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are sending up yet another franchise.

Peter Safran has snapped up film rights to Rob Sprackling's novel Born Again Ben.

Amy Adams is in negotiations to star in a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel Dark Places for writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.

Spoof auteurs Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have come onboard to write and direct "The Starving Games," with K5 selling its international rights at Cannes.

Icon Entertainment Intl. has picked up worldwide sales rights to "The Biggest Movie of All Time 3D," which it is shopping to buyers in Cannes.

Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra and Juan Sola have formed Ombra Films. Funded by StudioCanal, Ombra will generate low-budget English-language horror, thriller and fantasy films made by emerging Spanish filmmakers.

Paul Walker will star in and exec produce the indie thriller Vehicle 19, a project from the 2010 Black List of best unproduced screenplays.