Oh, delicious irony. This is the tenth anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, and to celebrate we have the release of The Blair Wit...er, Paranormal Activity. The inheritor of the witch's low-budget, word of mouth horror crown has scored a massive PR coup by generating enough interest to earn a wide release, and director Oren Peli is already at work on his next film, Area 51. Not wanting to let their moment escape (the real lesson to be learned from the success of Blair Witch) Paranormal's producers are also lining up new projects. The most prominent among them, The Jealous One, actually sounds like it could be a cool Hitchcockian thriller. THR reports on The Jealous One, a spec script by Carey Malloy which Activity producers Steven Schneider and Jason Blum have been developing and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is on the verge of buying. Based on Celia Fremlin’s 1965 book,...
- 10/8/2009
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Are you familiar with the names Steven Schneider and Jason Blum? If you follow the film biz at all then you soon will be, as these are the producers behind director Oren Peli's "Paranormal Activity." The micro-budgeted movie was completed in 2007, but has been building momentum in recent weeks thanks to a staggered release schedule and some inventive grassroots promotion on the part of the studio, Paramount.
While Peli is preparing to shoot his next film, Schneider and Blum are keeping busy with other talents. They've currently got a spec script from newcomer Carey Malloy for "The Jealous One," which "Adventureland" producer Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is close to acquiring, according a post on The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog.
"The Jealous One," based on Celia Fremlin's 1965 book, is described as a "Hitchcockian thriller." The story focuses on a wife who dreams of murdering a neighbor who she believes has been tempting her husband.
While Peli is preparing to shoot his next film, Schneider and Blum are keeping busy with other talents. They've currently got a spec script from newcomer Carey Malloy for "The Jealous One," which "Adventureland" producer Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is close to acquiring, according a post on The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog.
"The Jealous One," based on Celia Fremlin's 1965 book, is described as a "Hitchcockian thriller." The story focuses on a wife who dreams of murdering a neighbor who she believes has been tempting her husband.
- 10/8/2009
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
Wait a minute, there were producers on Paranormal Activity? If you've seen it, it feels like the kind of film that was created and shot by the director and his two friends and that's it. I totally forgot there were other people actually involved! Producers Steven Schneider and Jason Blum (who also produced Tooth Fairy) are close to selling their spec script titled The Jealous One to Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The project is described as a Hitchcockian thriller, based on Celia Fremlin's 1985 book, that centers on a wife who dreams she murdered a woman who might be tempting her husband, only to find the woman has disappeared. The screenplay was written by newcomer Carey Malloy. The Risky Biz article on the news focuses on how Paranormal is putting these two guys in the spotlight. "Jealous represents an increasingly rare occurrence in the development world: a spec sale. That category...
- 10/8/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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