October 21st, 2014 
Sam Cohen 
James Wan, director of The Conjuring, seems to have too much on his plate for the foreseeable future because of post-production on Fast & Furious 7. Moving from Oct. 25, 2015 to an undisclosed time in 2016, The Conjuring 2 has now been replaced by an untitled horror film produced by New Line. Annabelle, the spinoff based upon a doll from The Conjuring, has now made $166 million dollars worldwide on a $6.5 million dollar budget, cementing the importance of the franchise to its financiers.
For now, we all have to wait on bated breath to see what the Lamberts get into next. My guess is that it will be some kind of creatively enacted spooky hijinks. The Conjuring made $318 million dollars worldwide on a $20 million budget. Although Wan isn’t confirmed to come back to the sequel, the push to 2016 causes some discussion. New Line could be so dedicated to his vision of the original that they pushed the sequel so that he will have more time to make a quality picture out of the material. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are already confirmed to come back, but that is all we know right now.
Deadline also believes that two films could take that Oct. 25 spot. Crawlspace, starring Bates Motel‘s Michael Vartan as a widowed man who has moved into a seemingly perfect new home with his daughter and new wife, could bow at that time. The other film is Superstition, a Blumhouse production directed by first-timers Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, which follows a family that moves into a home built on an old site of a witch’s execution. Well, I guess whatever comes out on Oct. 25, 2015 will be a haunted house movie.
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