According to Deadline New York, Lionsgate has acquired the North American rights to DIBBUK BOX, a thriller produced by Ghost House Pictures partners Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert..
IMDb said the story is a fictional retelling of LA Times reporter Leslie Gornstein‘s story Jinx in a Box,about an antique wooden box purchased on eBay that contained an evil spirit and was brought to America by a Holocaust survivor after World War II. You can read the complete article OVER THERE.
Screenplay to be written by team Juliet Snowden & Stiles White who brought us the Alex Proyas-directed Knowing which I thought was a decent movie, it was like Proyas’ very own Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
So.. in DIBBUK BOX.. “a family finds itself in possession of a haunted box, and struggles to get rid of its evil curse.” It’s described to be in the same vein as The Shining but it’s a ‘based on a true story/events’ tactic that has worked for The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Amityville Horror and Psycho.
Ghost House and Lionsgate are also developing BURST 3D.
I looked up the word DIBBUK and apparently it comes from a Jewish folklore about the wandering soul of a dead person that enters the body of a living person and controls his or her behavior. Freaky, huh?!
