‘The Exorcist: Believer’: Ellen Burstyn Agreed To Do Sequel Only If Blumhouse Upped Her Salary And Donated It To Scholarship Program

MGMT have announced details of their fifth studio album. Loss Of Life will be released on February 23 and includes the single "Mother Nature." The 3D animated video for the new song, which shows two animal friends named Dog and Turtle fighting against an evil pet collector, can be seen below.

bbymutha has signed to True Panther Sounds — the buzzy, independent New York label that’s currently home to Grace Ives, Frost Children, Model/Actriz, Oklou, and Popstar Benny (among others) and boasts King Krule, Abra, Cloud Nothings, Hunx and his Punx, Shlohmo, Ty Segall, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and more as alumni. The signing comes after a decade of self-releases from the Chattanooga MC born Brittnee Moore, who’s built a cult following through the years with her raw delivery, impeccable beat selection, and defiance of industrial and societal norms.

Relentlessly adventurous rapper Pink Siifu has teamed up with Turich Benjy for a new album called It’s Too Quiet…’!, out today (October 31) via Dynamite Hill. It’s Siifu’s second project of the year following Leather Blvd., a joint album with Ahwlee as B.

DJ Haram has announced a new EP titled Handplay and released its lead single, which is also its opener and title track. The tape, due out December 1 via Hyperdub, is essentially a double single, with “Handplay” and its as-yet-unreleased companion “No Funeral” representing side A and their respective instrumentals comprising side B.

Strictly Come Dancing star Annabel Croft emotionally fought back tears as she reflected on her ‘horrific year’ during an interview about the significance of her upcoming dance with partner Johannes Radebe on the next live show. The tennis star, 57, revealed on Tuesday's Strictly It Takes Two (31 October) that she would be dancing a Couple’s Choice dance with Johannes, set to Wings by Birdy.

As Emmerdale ’s Caleb Miligan once again finds itself at the heart of trouble this week, fans at home will no doubt anxiously be awaiting the news as to what part, if any, he played in rapist Craig Reed’s death. As regular viewers will know, Craig recently raped his childhood sweetheart Lydia Dingle in harrowing scenes, with the police refusing to pursue the allegation due to insufficient evidence.

Kylie and Kendall Jenner never miss an opportunity to bring their A-game during the Halloween season — and this year is no exception!

Mariah Carey may be the Queen of Christmas, but that doesn’t mean she ain’t going to shine for Halloween!

Chrishell Stause is sticking up for her partner!

Erika Jayne is PISSED at Jon Hamm!

Kim Kardashian and North West NOT winning Halloween?! As if!

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are the king and queen of Halloween!

David Gordon Green may have made “Halloween Ends” last year, but does the “Halloween” franchise ever really end? Deadline reports that Miramax Television emerges victorious in a steep bidding war against Blumhouse Productions and A24 for the TV rights to “Halloween.” The deal with Trancas International Films allows Miramax to develop and co-produce a TV series based on the IP, including a first-look agreement on other TV projects for the international marketplace.

The Halloween universe is set to expand.

As noted in this intro to a “Happy Sad Confused” conversation with David Gordon Green, the filmmaker behind “The Exorcist: Believer,” the director’s career is confusing to many. He began as an indie arthouse filmmaker (“All The Real Girls,” “Undertow“); then started directing studio comedies, many of which were produced by Judd Apatow (“Your Highness,” “The Sitter“), and then, of course, he’s gone off on his recent horror detour which has included a “Halloween” trilogy that started in 2018 and what’s intended to be a new “Exorcist” trilogy that started this year with “Believer.” The Lost, Unmade & Abandoned Projects Of Director David Gordon Green The reality is that from the very beginning, Green claims he was a cinematic omnivore who looked at Steven Soderbergh, a filmmaker who’s tackled every genre under the sun, as his guiding light model.

Alright, “Exorcist: Believer,” Universal and Blumhouse Pictures’ legacy sequel of 1973’s “The Exorcist,” directed by David Gordon Green hit theaters last weekend and the results were, well, kinda mid. Yes, it’s a legacy sequel, so much like the newest “Halloween” trilogy (also made by Green, Universal and Blumhouse), it disregards all the other sequels and essentially only takes place after the original film).

Refresh for latest…: Just as it came in lower than hoped for domestically, Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Believer didn’t fully convert overseas audiences, summoning a $17.9M international box office debut for $45.1M global. The R-rated David Gordon Green-directed reboot/sequel did see some of its 52 launch markets give it a No. 1 start, while in like-for-likes, the bow is above M3GAN, Evil Dead Rise, Scream VI and Smile. (As regards the latter, recall that it legged out with terrific holds, so the comparison may not stick down the line since scores on Believer are not good, and Taylor Swift is on deck.) 

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The Post called the slasher flick — which stars Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair reprising their roles from the original — “a dud” and “awful.”“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” remained in second place with close to $2.9 million in sales.Kim Kardashian, who voiced the character Delores in the 2021 original, returned for the sequel and this time was joined by her two eldest children North and Saint West, who also lent their voices to characters.“Saw X,” which was in first place last week, came in third, earning $2.4 million. Sci-fi action thriller “The Creator,” which was in the number three spot last week, moved down a notch to fourth with a just over $1.7 million take.

J. Kim Murphy Nearly 50 years after William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” landed in theaters to leg out a run as the highest-grossing feature of 1973, a new sequel to it is opening on top of the box office. Universal’s “The Exorcist: Believer” compelled audiences to the tune of an $11.9 million opening day from 3,663 locations, a number including $2.85 million in previews.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “The Exorcist: Believer,” now playing in theaters. After 50 years, “The Exorcist” franchise is back with “The Exorcist: Believer,” and it returns with some familiar faces. It was announced early on that Ellen Burstyn, who played Chris MacNeil in the original “Exorcist,” would reprise her role in “The Exorcist: Believer,” which is the start of a brand new trilogy.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This article contains minor spoilers for “The Exorcist: Believer,” now playing in theaters. Released 50 years after the original “Exorcist,” Universal and Blumhouse’s follow-up, “The Exorcist: Believer,” pays homage to the horror masterpiece in some grotesque ways. Just like the original, there’s vomit, head-spinning and not one, but two demonic possessions. “Exorcist: Believer” follows a pair of girls who go missing in the woods and return three days later under a supernatural influence.

release of “The Exorcist: Believer,” filmgoers will once again witness young, possessed girls blaspheming, shrieking and levitating as their parents try to wrest a godless demon from their bodies.What they likely won’t see, however, is their fellow audience members fainting, vomiting and fleeing the theater in terror. That chaotic scene was what was widely reported to have happened all over the world when “The Exorcist” hit theaters nearly 50 years ago in December 1973.In early 1974, a security guard at a Midtown East cinema described screenings of the horror flick to the New York Times.

Jordan Moreau In the horror genre, nothing really ever stays dead. Universal and Blumhouse’s sequel, “The Exorcist: Believer,” is launching at the box office this weekend, and it’s made $2.85 million in Thursday previews so far. The R-rated movie is expected to make between $30 million and $36 million in its opening, which will mark the best launch of the horror franchise ever.

David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer kept the horror peace train going at the box office with $2.85M in previews last night on its way to a potential high $20M to $30M start at the box office.

In a chat for Interview magazine with her Law & Order: Organized Crime costar, Christopher Meloni, Ellen Burstyn marveled at the amount of work she’s getting at her age.

The new movie The Exorcist: Believer, which serves as a direct sequel to the original 1973 movie, is now in theaters.

Ethan Shanfeld Ellen Burstyn reprised the role of Chris MacNeil 50 years after the original “Exorcist” film in David Gordon Green‘s “The Exorcist: Believer.” But the actor wasn’t initially sold on the reboot from Universal and Blumhouse, initially telling Green “hell no” when the director first approached her about returning to the franchise. “At first, she was very skeptical,” Green told A.frame, the digital magazine of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“The Exorcist: Believer” hits theaters this weekend, fifty years after the release of William Friedkin‘s 1973 original. And given Friedkin’s passing earlier this year, David Gordon Green will never know what the late director thinks about his film.

Love it or hate it, Blumhouse continues to do what it does best: make lean, low/mid-budget genre films that help the studio fund its more prestigious fare. And while the quality of these movies varies, there’s certain charm to these B-movies, with Jason Blum more often than not giving young directors a chance to have more creative freedom than they’d get at a larger studio.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Exorcist: Believer” looks to easily claim the No. 1 spot in its box office debut, but that almost wasn’t the case.

his 2018 “Halloween” reboot with Jamie Lee Curtis. And, on paper, his plan doesn’t sound so bad. Running time: 121 minutes.

There are myriad talking entry points to “Exorcist: Believer”—David Gordon Green’s latest horror legacy sequel and the follow-up to his “Halloween” trilogy. For one, it’s awful, but it’s also fascinating, chock-full of thought-provoking ideas— impossible to fully disregard even when the film goes off the rails.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The sequels — or, in two cases, prequels — to “The Exorcist” have all been unqualified turkeys. There is now a movement at hand to declare that John Boorman’s crackpot insect-swarm fantasia “Exorcist II: The Heretic” (1977) was some sort of misunderstood masterpiece, but that’s an act of revisionism every bit as loony tunes as “Heaven’s Gate” revisionism.

In the long history of horror films since the dawn of cinema, it would be hard to imagine any of them quite having the particular impact of 1973’s The Exorcist which became the first horror film ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, along with nine other nominations including Best Actress for Ellen Burstyn. It eventually won two Academy Awards for William Peter Blatty’s screenplay based on his 1971 novel, and for the bone chilling Sound work. When I saw it as a young kid in its original incarnation at the National Theatre in Westwood (now no longer existing), there were lines like you have never seen wrapping completely around the block. Warner Bros. even put a nurse on duty in the lobby for those who passed out, no mere gimmick because it actually happened. Nothing I have seen since in the genre has matched that one for me, but it wasn’t for Hollywood not trying. There are countless imitations, even a couple of failed direct sequels including the dreadful 1977 followup, Exorcist II: The Heretic, and the forgettable Exorcist III: Legion in 1990. There have been TV series attempts, an origin angle with Exorcist: The Beginning in 2004, and countless others using the come-on Exorcist in their title. Earlier this year we even had another film, based on the Vatican’s longtime real life demon slayer, The Pope’s Exorcist which thanks to a dedicated performance by Russell Crowe worked quite well on its own terms

Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Believer will continue horror’s head-spinning roll at the autumn box office with a $30M-$36M domestic start at 3,600 locations.

Naman Ramachandran Disney sci-fi epic “The Creator” and Lionsgate U.K.’s horror franchise entry “Saw X” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office — and the race was almost too close to call. “Saw X” won the three-day total with £1.92 million ($2.31 million), while “The Creator” was just behind with £1.89 million ($2.27 million).