Pitch sale: “Conjuring”

After a bidding war, Summit Entertainment secures paranormal thriller “Conjuring” from writers Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes:

Deal comes with life rights to the Perron family, whose experiences in their Rhode Island home informs the film, and Ed and Lorraine Warren, experts in paranormal activities who investigated and battled the activities occurring in the Perron household and did the same in the cases that inspired “The Amityville Horror” and “The Haunting in Connecticut.”

Summit is keeping the specifics under wraps, but ghosts and demonic possession are at the center of the plot.

Other bidders: New Line and Screen Gems.

Selling price: Mid-against high-six figures.

The writers are repped by WME and Circle of Confusion.

The article mentions The Amityville Horror (1979) which grossed $86M and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) which grossed $55M. But then, of course, there’s The Exorcist (1973) which grossed a whopping $232M — so clearly there is an audience for these type of movies, hence the bidding war (especially with the attachments of the Warrens).

What are some other notable paranormal movies? Your favorites?

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