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Now, Blum is discussing how a recent Halloween-centric event may have helped progress the timeline. Credit Universal Jason Blum Says 'Horror Nights' Attraction Sparked Purge 6 Interest During the New York Comic-Con panel labeled Blumhouse's Blumfest 2023, the horror mastermind addressed his recent thoughts on The Purge franchise post-Hollywood Horror Nights reveal, telling attendees, "We love to scare[...]

When the 2013 film The Purge dropped, we were introduced to an annual event in which crime in America, largely murder, is decriminalized for a short period of time As expected, given its divisive and violent tendencies, the film became a hit and generated enough to birth a franchise with a soon-to-be sixth chapter. So where[...]

With four sequel films (and another reportedly in development) and a two-season television series under its belt, James DeMonaco's "The Purge" franchise appears to be doing quite well But that doesn't mean that there aren't more stories within the universe that DeMonaco would like to explore – and in a recent interview with Collider, that[...]

Credit, Universal That being said, one of the stars of the popular horror franchise is offering fans a minor update on the status of the sixth film, along with his own feelings regarding the project. Will The Purge 6 Happen? Or is Universal Pictures Shelving the Project? When talking to ComicBook, recurring Purge star Frank Grillo was asked[...]

The Purge has become a niche horror sub-genre of its own since debuting in 2013, with the most recent film, The Forever Purge, being the fifth installment in the long-running film series. Though the films have seen a few shifts in their eight years so far, there is still residual interest in exploring the return of[...]

Image Courtesy of Universal Pictures Does Anyone Actually Think This Will Be The End Of The Purge? The movie will take place after the events of Election Year (whereas The First Purge acted as a prequel to the 2013 original) It will center on Adela (Ana de la Reguera) and Juan (Tenoch Huerta), who finds solace at[...]

Over the past several weeks as civil unrest spreads across the country in response to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, several people have compared the situation to the movies in The Purge franchise However, these takes not only misunderstand the protests, they seemingly don't understand that The Purge is not, and[...]

So it stands to reason that they might do the same with The Purge. The rumbling around The Forever Purge is that it is to be the final film in the series as well, so that may factor into the decision about holding out for theaters Without the show on USA, this could actually be the[...]

With the NBCUniversal network shifting its focus from scripted to more live and unscripted/reality programming, it wasn't much of a surprise to hear that USA Network was purging The Purge and putting a hit out on Treadstone The "Bourne" film franchise spin-off (along with previously-cut drama Dare Me) was canceled after only a single season,[...]

For television, he is a credited producer on the shows Black Sails, The Last Ship, Amazons Jack Ryan show, and The Purge tv show He helped keep the 80's horror torch alive by producing reboots or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street (well, ok you can be mad about[...]

Tyler (Watchmen, The Purge) are set to join the series, based on characters and situations from Thomas Harris' novels, and stemming from writers and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. A pilot script has been penned and will film before an official series order is given – but a writers room has already been open[...]

What happens when you combine the dynamic duo behind Psych with two of the brains behind horror franchises A Quiet Place, The Purge, and Ouija? Amazon Prime's Mitchcraft (working title), an "aspirational horror" hybrid comedy from Psych creator/executive producer Steve Franks and executive producer Chris Henze of Thruline, and Brad Fuller and Andrew Form from Fully[...]

The Purge has had some amazing movies over the years, some good and some bad The characters that come out of these movies have been very unique as we get to see get people their dark side out I was surprised to see The Purge come out with collectibles this year through Funko Five Funko[...]

USA Network and Blumhouse Television have achieved an almost Ryan Murphy/American Horror Style-level of success when it comes to The Purge and bridging universes together That can be a particularly difficult landing to stick when you're trying to get the film and television sides to play nice with one another. Blumhouse With next week's season finale "7:01[...]

Series creator James DeMonaco has written the script. The Purge television show was never meant to replace the film series, although after the last film The First Purge, there seemed to be some talk over at Blumhouse that they might take an extended break from the series Guess that is off It will be interesting to[...]

With production underway, viewers learned on Thursday that Jay Ali (USA Network's The Purge) is set to join the Orlando Bloom–Cara Delevingne-starrer. Ali's Kaine is a Faerie allied with the Black Raven criminal gang, alongside Delevingne's Vignette. Netflix Last month, viewers learned that Erik Oleson (Netflix's Daredevil) agreed to join the second season as executive producer and new showrunner,[...]

In the interest of full disclosure, my knowledgebase tends to lean heavily more towards the film side – but after watching the second season opener to USA Network's The Purge, I'm finding myself gaining a better appreciation for the franchise. More importantly, I'm getting a better appreciation for the franchise's entire universe – the most basic[...]

The Purge is returning to the USA Network this October for a second season of mayhem and violence Quick fans of The Purge, how familiar does that mask look? Check out the quick teaser, posted this morning on the Blumhouse twitter, teases what is to come. Does crime exist beyond the siren? Find out when @ThePurgeTV[...]

The Purge Season 2 is hitting small screens this fall, and four new Purgers have been added to the cast Derek Luke, Max Martini, Paola Nuñez, and Joel Allen will all try to survive the night in season 2 The series debuted last year, and there is no word if anyone who survived that season[...]

Some exciting casting news for all of the "Dreadfuls" out there: Showtime's sequel series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has cast The Purge alumna Jessica Garza and Johnathan Nieves (New Amsterdam) as series regulars Garza and Nieves join Daniel Zovatto (Fear the Walking Dead) on the follow-up to Penny Dreadful from the original series' creator, writer and[...]

The philosophy's worked, with major cinematic success stories like: The Purge and Paranormal Activity franchises; Get Out, Split, and the recently released Halloween sequel. While not new to television, Blumhouse planted their flag in 2018 with projects like HBO's Sharp Objects, Facebook Watch's Sacred Lies, Netflix's Ghoul, USA Network's The Purge, and Hulu's Into the Dark[...]

DC Universe understands that you can't have a "Justice Society of America" without some members, so the roster continues to grow – now with The Purge's Brian Stapf set to join the streaming service's upcoming live-action Stargirl series in the recurring role of JSA founding member Ted Grant/Wildcat Stapf joins Brec Bassinger (Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl), Joel McHale (Sylvester Pemberton/Starman), and Lou[...]

With The Purge series successfully transitioning to television, they can use one of those reliable film series like it to take its place on the big screen This could be it. Fantasy Island, starring Michael Pena, Lisa Hale, Jimmy O Yang, Portia Doubelday, Maggie Q and Ryan Hansen and directed by Jeff Wadlow, will open on[...]

A new partnership between Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios was announced today, with Blumhouse producing 8 new films for the streaming service.

The Purge concluded its run on USA Tuesday, and thankfully it finished way stronger than it should have Ending with what amounted to a two-part finale was a great idea, and one they executed as well as they possibly could have Our hero that was not really a hero Joe held trials on people who[...]

The Purge has been given a second season order by the USA Network The series, which finishes its first season tonight, will be back to showcase another 12 hour period where all crime is legal in the United States The show is averaging 2.3 million viewers an episode when you factor in the Live+7 numbers,[...]

For the first seven episodes of The Purge, we have believed certain things to be true Miguel is Superman Rick is spineless Penelope is a walking contradiction Lila is strong and confident Jane makes a lot of stupid decisions So on and so on Last nights episode "The Giving Time is Here" flipped everything on[...]

The Purge has gone a bit off the rails these last couple weeks Sadly this weeks episode was full of weird story beats, wooden acting in spots, and aimlessness that tells me some of these storylines should not have lasted the whole ten episode run Case in point: I am not really sure we need[...]

Joe is a good man, who just needed a sense of purpose, and The Purge gives him one He is out to save people, he has a sense of purpose for the first time in awhile He has saved two already, sadly he was too late to save the elderly couple in the market He[...]

Last nights episode of The Purge series slammed on the gas and didn't look back. The board has completely reset, setting up the second half of the series.