Yep, which likely means great things. It really feels like that and Cabin in the Woods are passion projects of A&D (the latter being Aiello's baby). This generally means they'll be strong houses since the designers will know the property backwards and forwards (unlike, say, Silent Hill, where it was pretty clear they didn't fully understand the games' universe and its characters). It also helps that the rights holders for AWIL/CITW don't seem to be particularly restrictive in how Universal uses the respective IPs, unlike AMC and New Line (who enforce lists upon lists of things they can't do). The refreshing flexibility is exemplified, in my mind, that Universal will be allowed to use some of HHN's original characters in Cabin to mix in with the film's own creations.
Really, AWIL and CITW may save the event for me. Walking Dead redux bores me (the prison and lumbering zombies doesn't exactly scream "crazy awesome sets"), Evil Dead is a less interesting Cabin and won't have the edginess it needs in the gore/lewd content department to work, and I'm thoroughly uninitiated with Resident Evil. Very apathetic about HAVOC on a Train. La LLorona and "Afterlife" are total wild cards but sound like houses I'd dig.