{"id":814895,"date":"2026-07-20T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:47:09","slug":"the-conjuring-first-communion-adds-matthias-schweighofer-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814895\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Conjuring: First Communion&#8217; Adds Matthias Schweigh\u00f6fer To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthias-schweighofer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthias-schweighofer\" data-tag=\"matthias-schweighofer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthias Schweigh\u00f6fer<\/a>, the German actor known for the likes of Oppenheimer\u00a0and Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Army of Thieves, is set for a role in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/new-line\/\" id=\"auto-tag_new-line\" data-tag=\"new-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Line<\/a> horror prequel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-conjuring-first-communion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-conjuring-first-communion\" data-tag=\"the-conjuring-first-communion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Conjuring: First Communion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNo word on the role to be played by Schweigh\u00f6fer. Most recently, we learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/conjuring-first-communion-garrett-wareing-amanda-fix-1236981902\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Wareing and Amanda Fix<\/a> are leading the film as young versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the married paranormal investigators played throughout the franchise by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPlot details for the latest installment in\u00a0The Conjuring\u00a0Universe \u2014 the highest grossing horror franchise of all time at more than $2.7 billion in global box office\u2014 are being kept under wraps.\u00a0First Communion\u00a0follows\u00a0Last Rites, which last year became the highest-grossing film in the series at more than $499 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHired off a short film, Rodrigue Huart is directing New Line\u2019s\u00a0Conjuring\u00a0prequel from a script by Richard Naing &amp; Ian Goldberg. Peter Safran is producing, with John Rickard, Natalia Safran and Romel Adam exec producing. Pic is slated for release September 10, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSchweigh\u00f6fer is known for directing and starring in Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Army of Thieves, a prequel to Zack Snyder\u2019s\u00a0zombie flick Army of the Dead, in which he also starred. Other credits include Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0Oppenheimer, on which he played German physicist Werner Heisenberg; Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Heart of Stone;\u00a0Pixar\u2019s\u00a0Elio; and the first German-language Amazon Original series You Are Wanted to name a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRecently, Schweigh\u00f6fer starred in the German sci-fi thriller\u00a0Brick, which reached the No. 1 film position on Netflix worldwide and in 59 countries within 24 hours of release, remaining there for two weeks. He recently wrapped a role opposite Walton Goggins in the action-comedy\u00a0Mister\u00a0and will also be seen coming up in Jaume Collet-Serra\u2019s WWII-era psychological thriller\u00a0Play Dead, produced by Sam Raimi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is repped by UTA and Untitled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Matthias Schweigh\u00f6fer, the German actor known for the likes of Oppenheimer\u00a0and Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Army of Thieves, is set for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,285855,337,4431,285856],"class_list":["post-814895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-matthias-schweighu00f6fer","tag-movies","tag-new-line","tag-the-conjuring-first-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}