Friday the 13th
Film by Sean S. Cunningham
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| February 13 2025 | Linda Cardellini was reported to be in talks to play Pamela Voorhees in the Crystal Lake series. |
| August 2024 | Brad Caleb Kane was revealed as the new showrunner for the Crystal Lake series. |
| May 2024 | Bryan Fuller was fired from the Crystal Lake series after A24 decided to change the series' direction. No casting had taken place at this point. |
| May 2024 | Sean S. Cunningham explained that a new Friday the 13th film would not be released for at least three years due to studio hesitancy about funding a potentially risky horror movie. |
| May 7 2024 | Bloody Disgusting confirmed the Crystal Lake series was still in development, but undergoing a retooling process. |
| May 6 2024 | Unconfirmed reports suggested the Crystal Lake series was no longer happening. |
| January 2023 | Writing for the Crystal Lake series was scheduled to begin in late January, with Kevin Williamson set to write one episode for season one. |
| January 2023 | Adrienne King, the original Alice Hardy actress from the 1980 film, was cast in a recurring undisclosed role for the Crystal Lake series. |
| January 2023 | Jeff Locker, Jeremy Weiss, and Sean S. Cunningham pitched a new Friday the 13th film reboot and a potential direct sequel to the original film. |
| 2022 | Tom McLoughlin and James Sweet write a prequel film titled Diary of Pamela Voorhees. |
| October 31 2022 | A Friday the 13th prequel streaming series titled Crystal Lake was officially announced, to be written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and Victor Miller, with A24 as the studio and Peacock as the platform. |
| September 30 2021 | Victor Miller wins the domestic rights in the ongoing copyright lawsuit. |
| 2020 | Paramount re-released the Blu-ray as a 40th Anniversary Limited Edition steelbook. |
| 2020 | Shout! Factory released a 4K scan of the original film and parts 2-4 in a complete series box set to celebrate the film's 40th anniversary. |
| July 2019 | Tom McLoughlin reveals a speculative sequel script titled Jason Never Dies, intended as a direct sequel to Jason Lives. |
| 2018 | The film was included in the Friday the 13th: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray set. |
| 2018 | John Corlis's music for the 'His Name Was Jason' documentary was released digitally. |
| 2018 | Film rights to the Friday the 13th franchise reverted back to New Line/Warner Bros. |
| November 2018 | Screenwriter Clint Ford begins writing a prequel screenplay titled Friday the 13th: The Beginning. |
| October 2018 | LeBron James and SpringHill Entertainment enter talks to co-produce the next Friday the 13th film. |
| September 28 2018 | Victor Miller wins the rights against Sean S. Cunningham in a federal court in Connecticut. |
| April 2018 | Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, the original filming location, hosted 'Crystal Lake Tours', an event where actress Adrienne King shared behind-the-scenes stories about the film's production with fans, visiting nine original filming locations. |
| January 20 2018 | Released Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle, a mobile game available on iOS, Android, Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. |
| 2017 | Complex magazine ranked Friday the 13th ninth in a list of the best slasher films of all time, acknowledging its genre-defining status. |
| February 6 2017 | Paramount officially canceled the Friday the 13th reboot project. |
| 2016 | The book On Location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th was published, providing detailed documentation about the movie's planning and filming process. |
| August 8 2016 | Breck Eisner was in talks to direct the Friday the 13th reboot. |
| May 2016 | Fuller revealed the planned reboot would be an origin story for Jason, featuring his mother. |
| January 2016 |
Gun Media and IllFonic presented a developer panel at PAX South, showing alpha footage and kill animations for Friday the 13th: The Game.
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| January 26 2016 | Victor Miller sends a Notice of Termination to Horror Inc., attempting to reclaim his screenplay rights for Friday the 13th. |
| 2015 | Friday the 13th: The Game was crowdfunded through BackerKit and Kickstarter, raising a total of US$1,095,143.40 from 28,237 backers. |
| March 2015 | TV writer Nick Antosca was announced to write the script for a new Friday the 13th film. |
| March 13 2015 | 35th-anniversary screening held at Griffith Park Zoo as part of the Great Horror Campout. |
| January 2015 | Electronic Gaming Monthly announced a new survival horror multiplayer game, initially titled Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp, developed by IllFonic and Gun Media. |
| April 2014 | Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and Crystal Lake Entertainment planned to produce an hour-long Friday the 13th television series for The CW, focusing on characters at Crystal Lake dealing with Jason Voorhees' return. |
| 2013 | The film was included in the Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection Blu-ray set. |
| September 2013 | Daniel Farrands directed a second documentary, 'Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th', narrated by Corey Feldman, which covered all twelve films and the television series. |
| June 2013 | Warner Bros. relinquished film rights to the Friday the 13th series to Paramount as part of a deal to co-produce Interstellar. |
| January 13 2012 | La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Harry Manfredini's scores from the first six Friday the 13th films, which sold out in less than 24 hours. |
| 2011 | The uncut version of Friday the 13th was released in a 4-disc DVD collection with the first three sequels. |
| February 2011 | Shannon and Swift completed the script for a Friday the 13th sequel according to Fuller's claim on Twitter. |
| April 2010 | Producer Brad Fuller announced via Twitter that the planned sequel to the 2009 remake was 'dead — not happening', effectively cancelling the project. |
| March 10 2010 | 30th Anniversary Edition of the film is released. |
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