20th Century Studios Acquires Horror Package ‘Every House Is Haunted’ From Netflix; ‘Don’t Move’s Adam Schindler & Brian Netto Directing

EXCLUSIVE: After acquiring Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman’s genre script Every House Is Haunted, based on the Ian Rogers short story “The House on Ashley Avenue,” in 2021, Netflix has sold the project to 20th Century Studios.

Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, the filmmaking duo behind the 2024 Netflix thriller Don’t Move, starring Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock, will direct and do their own pass on the script by Pagan and Deutschman. They take the project over from Corin Hardy, who’d previously been attached to direct.

Every House Is Haunted follows an insurance investigator who tries to debunk claims that a couple’s death was caused by a haunted house, only for his doubts to be challenged by a psychic and the mysterious occurrences he witnesses with his own eyes.

Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi are producing for Raimi Productions (Send Help), alongside Roy Lee (Weapons) and Andrew Childs (The Long Walk) for Vertigo Entertainment. Ian Rogers and Starlight Media, which kickstarted development with an option of the source material, are exec producing.

SVP of Production J.R. Young is overseeing the project, reporting to 20th President Steve Asbell.

Schindler and Netto are an L.A.-based filmmaking duo whose thriller Don’t Move nabbed the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s global film chart during its first two weeks on the service. Asbille plays a grieving woman injected with a paralytic drug who must then run, hide and fight her would-be killer before her body shuts down. That film, penned by T.J. Cimfel and David White, also counted Raimi and Azizi amongst its producers.

Schindler and Netto are now in post on Nightwatching, a survival thriller starring Mila Kunis and Corey Hawkins and produced by Ridley Scott. A production of Scott Free, Fifth Season, Picturestart and Brick For Sheep, it’ll be distributed internationally by Amazon MGM Studios. The filmmakers are represented by Gersh and Persistent.