Other insiders claimed that Friday the 13th is on the “opposite end of the horror spectrum” than Rings.
Still, insiders claimed that Paramount executives immediately started second-guessing their Friday the 13th project, because they were supposedly aiming at the same audience.
Just a few weeks after a report claimed the Friday the 13th remake was set to start shooting this spring, Paramount Pictures has unceremoniously canceled the project.
Rings was produced under just a $25 million budget, but it only took in $13 million domestically this past weekend.