Renewed for season 2
USA - The Gifted has been renewed for a second season at Fox, the network announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
The series is set in the Marvel X-Men universe and follows a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their teenage children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. A two-hour first season finale is set to air on Jan. 15 on Fox.
It stars Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Natalie Alyn Lind, Percy Hynes White, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Emma Dumont, Blair Redford, and Coby Bell.
The series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television in association with Marvel Television. Matt Nix, Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, and Marvel’s Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory serve as executive producers. Nix, who serves as the series’ showrunner, wrote the pilot, which was directed by Singer. In Live+Same Day ratings, the series is averaging a 1.0 rating and 3.3 million viewers per episode. In Live+7, it is averaging a 2.0 and 8.3 million viewers across platforms, making it the number three new drama of the season.
The renewal of the Marvelbased series comes shortly after the announcement that Disney will acquire 20th Century Fox for over $50 billion. The deal will see Disney, which now owns Marvel, acquire Marvel properties like X-Men, which were sold off before Disney purchased Marvel in 2009. (Variety) USA - Okay, so now we’re definitely getting a fifth Insidious movie. Lin Shaye’s Insidious: The Last Key didn’t just pull a terrific $29.268 million opening weekend. It pulled a shockingly not-terrible 2.3x weekend multiplier. And yeah, that near-$30m debut is the second-biggest launch ever for one of these “January starts with a schlocky horror movie” offerings ever, behind the $33m debut of The Devil Inside back in 2012. Although, inflation argues that White Noise ($25m in 2005) sold more tickets.
This is a shockingly good launch for a film that most of us thought would merely allow the horror franchise to end with a modicum of dignity. The fourth entry in Blumhouse’s haunted house franchise got 2018 off to a fine start, opening bigger than Insidious: Chapter 3 ($22 million in 2015), but obviously smaller than Insidious: Chapter 2 ($40m in 2013). It is the fourth film in the nearly seven-year-old horror franchise, one which put Blumhouse on the map and allowed James Wan to reinvent horror for the second time in his career. Even though it’s been somewhat overshadowed by The Conjuring, the series is clearly holding its own.
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