Riding high on the domestic take that The Strangers culled in, you can bet that Rogue Pictures are feeling a great sense of relief after recent horror genre duds such as The Hitcher and Doomsday. So far, rookie director Bryan Bertino‘s debut film is a 52 million domestic take. The profit margins look good with what was a ten million dollar budget to play with and perhaps less than that amount in a P&A infrastructure.
Variety reported earlier today that Rogue have signed Bertino to a two-picture pact to keep him in the stable with a rich endorsement of seven figures to write and direct each project. Focus Features’ Dimension Films-like division have tapped the director to work on Black, a supernatural thriller to be produced by Michael Connolly of Mad Hatter Entertainment. Somewhere before that or after, Bertino will rewrite Alone, a project already belonging to Rogue.
