Somebody like Leigh Whannell (screenwriter of Saw and Insidious) knows the power of a franchise. “Sequels are mostly driven by the economics of Hollywood. ‘We scored, we did well, and let’s ...

Leigh Whannell, the acclaimed director of The Invisible Man and Wolf Man, has shared his perspective on why Universal Pictures' ambitious Dark Universe project ultimately failed. In an exclusive ...

By Brian Davids Writer It’s been an agonizing five-year wait for Leigh Whannell’s follow-up to his near-universally acclaimed The Invisible Man. But before their moving truck could safely ...

Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man landed in theaters back in 2020 and, only weeks later, theaters around the world were shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic.As the months and years went by ...

By Esther Zuckerman Shortly after the director Leigh Whannell’s 2020 take on “The Invisible Man” became a box office success, he got a call from Universal asking if he would like to tackle ...

Directed by Leigh Whannell, the low-budget thriller was so successful that Universal rushed to adapt other titles from its classic monsters catalog, imagining a “Dark Universe” series that ...

Wolf Man—director Leigh Whannell’s reboot of Universal Pictures’ werewolf tale starring Jennifer Garner and Christopher Abbott—is new in theaters this weekend. How are critics receiving ...

It’s been an agonizing five-year wait for Leigh Whannell’s follow-up to his near-universally acclaimed The Invisible Man. As the pandemic became more and more prolonged, Whannell and his co ...