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Hasbro's 'Ouija' Movie Is Back In Business And Spells Out A 2013 Release Date

No matter how old you are, at one point in time you and your friends probably fooled around with a Ouija board despite what your parents may have told you, and as a result, you may have endured a chilling experience which you have nce shared with your family and friends...

That's just the case with Universal and Hasbro, who are teaming up to bring their own Ouija tale to a much wider audience.



According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two aforementioned companies are back in buness on Ouija. Back in August Universal had plans on adapting the board game to the big screen but had to pull out due to budgetary concerns. However the project has been reconfigured and re-set up and now scheduled to be released in 2013.

Original producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of Platinum Dunes are still on board but the project now has Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions as a producer as well.

Blum is the microbudget horror maven behind the Paranormal Activity franchise and Indious, movies that scared audiences and generated huge box office returns. The pics are hugely profitable because of their low overhead, suggesting Ouija has been re-conjured at a gnificantly lower price. In fact, one source suggests the budget might have been pared to the $5 million range.That would be a huge drop, condering the project ran into trouble at Universal over a budget said to be just shy of $100 million, which inders pegged to the big scope of a special-effects-laden family adventure and the cost of having McG (Charlie's Angels, This Means War) on board as a director.

Universal has not named a writer or director and is not revealing a revised logline but sources say Ouija will follow Blum's high concept, lower budget model. The movies Blumhouse has been making for Universal have been under $5 million and Ouija is expected to follow suit. It is unlikely to be a found-footage movie, something that has been a popular trope of late for low-budget horror flicks.

Stay tuned for more announcements.

Source:THR
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