Lee Cronin’s The Mummy: With a launch date of April 17, 2026, we now have an official title for the newest horror movie from Evil Lifeless Rise‘s Lee Cronin, who’s is writing and directing the movie, produced by Atomic Monster, Blumhouse and Doppelgängers, for New Line.
“This can be not like any Mummy film you ever laid eyeballs on earlier than. I am digging deep into the earth to boost one thing very historic and really scary,” stated author/director Lee Cronin.
As beforehand introduced, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are co-financing the movie. James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville are producers on the movie. Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher are govt producers. Alayna Glasthal is the manager overseeing the undertaking for Atomic Monster.
Lee Cronin is represented by CAA, Brillstein Leisure and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Pattern & Klein.
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GRAFTED: “Chinese language scholarship pupil Wei travels to New Zealand to check medical analysis at a prestigious college. Shy, introverted, and hiding a genetic facial birthmark, Wei is shunned by her social butterfly cousin Angela and her glamorous associates. Decided to vary her destiny, Wei immerses herself in her late father’s analysis, engaged on a revolutionary pores and skin grafting process that would treatment her deformity. As her experiments take a darkish flip, she turns into extra harmful and unhinged, keen to eradicate anybody who threatens her secret.”
Directed by Sasha Rainbow
Starring Joyena Solar, Jess Hong, Eden Hart, Jared Turner, Sepi To’a and Xiao Hu
Streaming on Shudder Friday, January twenty fourth
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NEON Acquires North American Rights to Chloe Okuno’s Horror Movie Brides Starring Maika Monroe: “ward-winning studio NEON introduced right this moment it has acquired the North American rights to Chloe Okuno’s (Watcher) horror movie Brides starring Maika Monroe. Monroe just lately starred in Osgood Perkins’ horror movie Longlegs for NEON, which is the very best grossing impartial movie of the yr at $75 million domestically. Pre-production is now underway and it’s set to start capturing in March 2025. NEON will launch the movie theatrically.
The movie can be produced by Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu by Possible Story. Okuno will direct the movie which is predicated on her authentic screenplay. Sally Bishop (Monroe) and her husband journey to a distant Italian villa the place the villa’s proprietor, a mysterious depend, takes a peculiar curiosity in Sally.
The deal for Brides was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman and Jason Wald on behalf of NEON. FilmNation Leisure launched worldwide gross sales on the American Movie Market in Las Vegas final month. UTA Unbiased Movie Group represented international and home rights.
The deal comes after NEON just lately launched Anora, Sean Baker’s extremely acclaimed movie starring Mikey Madison, which gained the coveted Palme d’Or in Cannes and opened in choose theaters October 18 to the very best per-screen common of 2024; and Immaculate starring Sydney Sweeney. Final month, NEON gained studio of the yr on the 2024 Clio Leisure Awards, making it the primary indie to win the award.
The studio has continued to increase its manufacturing capabilities, most just lately on the extremely anticipated Boots Riley function I Love Boosters starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore, Eiza González, Poppy Liu, Taylour Paige, and Will Poulter; They Observe, the long-awaited sequel to the trendy horror traditional It Follows from visionary author/director David Robert Mitchell, additionally starring Maika Monroe; and Michael Covino’s Splitsville starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona.
Rounding out the yr, NEON just lately launched Josh Oppenheimer’s The Finish, a golden-age musical starring Academy Award®-winner Tilda Swintono on Dec. sixth and the studio’s final upcoming launch for 2024 is the genre-bending, visionary documentary 2073 from Academy Award®-winning and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia which can be launched in choose U.S. theaters on December twenty seventh, following its well-received world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant and screenings on the BFI London Movie Pageant, Sitges, and others.”
