Just a day after Final Destination 5's release was moved up two weeks to August 12 -- perhaps due to Apollo 18 suddenly staking out the August 26 date -- FilmDistrict has decided to move its Don't Be Afraid of the Dark remake into FD5's vacated slot, preferring to go head-to-head with Apollo 18 rather than the established Final Destination franchise. Read More...

With filming having begun on Piranha 3DD, the primary cast has been announced, and, well, let's just say it's not quite as glamorous as the Elisabeth Shue-Ving Rhames-Richard Dreyfuss-Jerry O'Connell-Christopher Lloyd-Adam Scott lineup of Piranha 3D. Instead, the most recognizable name is probably...Gary Busey? Read More...

A lot of us were taken aback when, less than a month before it was set to hit theaters, "found footage" horror film Apollo 18 was abruptly bumped all the way back to January 2012. Now, The Weinstein Company has moved it back to a more reasonable time slot in the traditionally genre-friendly late summer: August 26, 2011. Read More...

It hasn't gotten a whole lot of press (I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago), but the low-budget ghost story Insidious is apparently getting great word of mouth, maintaining a top-10 box office haul for four straight weekends with tallies dipping less than 30% from the week before. In fact, Box Office Mojo reports that it had "the smallest percentage declines among nationwide holdovers" for two of the past three weeks. That's pretty much unheard of for genre movies, whose rabid fans tend to flood theaters in the opening frame. Read More...