In the film starring Devon Sawa, after a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one. One franchise that’s not talked about enough is that of Final Destination, which New Line Cinema released back in 2000. While we pray to the horror gods for a new A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, we’re already in the midst of a franchise renaissance with Halloween, and the forthcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Scream. The duo is repped by Verve, Underground, and Bloom Hergott. The penned the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for CBS Films and are working with horror producers Platinum Dunes on an untitled Christmas horror project set up at Sony and The Reckoning at Paramount. They were winners on season three of Project Greenlight and also wrote Piranha 3DD. Melton and Dunstan are horror vets best known for penning four of the Saw movies. Now it serving up chills via The Conjuring Universe, with a new Annabelle project being released July 3, and will open the second part of its Stephen King adaptation, It Chapter Two, Sept. New Line is one of the few major companies working with horror, which is consistent with its long history, dating back to the A Nightmare on Elm Street years in the 1980s. Plot details for the sixth installment, which is being billed as a re-imagining of the franchise, were not revealed. Four more installments followed through 2011, with the franchise balancing shock, blood and giggles while being a consistent moneymaker for New Line, grossing almost $700 million, even as the deaths became more and more elaborate. The first movie was directed by James Wong and starred Devon Sawa and Ali Larter, making $112 million worldwide on only a $23 million budget. The first movie, released in 2000, set up the conceit: a character has a premonition of a horrific and deadly event, cheats his or her own death and saves several other lives’ in the process, only to have Death, as an unpersonified but unstoppable force, come, one by one, for the survivors. The company is restarting its Final Destination horror franchise, hiring scary movie mavens Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to pen the script.įinal Destination proved to be a cornerstone for New Line’s horror business in the early 2000s. New Line is gearing up for another trip with Death.

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