** OBSESSION: Variety confirmed that Inde Navarrette will campaign in the best actress category this coming awards season for her breakout turn in Curry Barker's box office smash OBSESSION, headlining a wide-ranging effort from Focus Features that will seek recognition across nearly every category the film is eligible to enter. (thanks to Variety.com)
** VINCENT MUST DIE remake: AR Content, Vertigo and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are teaming up to remake VINCENT MUST DIE, the acclaimed French Belgian thriller directed by Stéphan Castang that premiered in the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight sidebar in 2023.
Written and directed by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the film will be produced by AR Content's Alexander Rodnyansky alongside Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and Michael Clear for Blumhouse Atomic Monster, along with Michael Kupisk of AR Content. Stuart Manashil will executive produce. The film was optioned by AR Content from Goodfellas, who will also serve as executive producers.
The remake will be written and directed by Johnson-McGoldrick, a veteran screenwriter and producer known for ORPHAN, THE CONJURING LAST RITES and INSIDIOUS OUT OF THE FURTHER. VINCENT MUST DIE marks his directorial debut. (thanks to Variety.com)
** REPLACER: The psycho-sexual horror film REPLACER is set to begin filming in Montreal on September 16. BACKROOMS actor Avan Jogia is directing and co-wrote with Grammy nominee Halsey in her first lead film role. Joining the cast are Karl Glusman (THE NEON DEMON) alongside Juliette Gariépy (LES CHAMBRES ROUGE). Also joining the project is German producer and composer Alex Ridha who will score the film. As we previously revealed, Lily Wachowski is among exec producers.
The synopsis reads: "Stranded in Montreal, Proxy (Halsey), a troubled DJ, meets an alluring artist and his group of friends who run an underground radio station. The station's broadcast becomes warped by a mysterious signal hidden deep beneath the city's subway system. Proxy must escape before the sound turns her, and her new friends, into something raw, primal, and unrecognizable." (thanks to Deadline.com)
** IGNORE IT: Sam Evenson, the YouTube horror star behind the hugely popular Grimoire Horror channel, has teamed up with SMILE producers Temple Hill Entertainment and Anton to adapt his viral horror short IGNORE IT into his feature directorial debut.
The film, which Evenson will write and direct, follows a family who fights to survive living with a terrifying entity known only as 'The Woman,' who will kill you if you acknowledge her. As per the synopsis: "Their one rule for survival: ignore it." (thanks to Variety.com)
** LAST CHANCE MOTEL: Here's the poster for the upcoming film.
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** PULSE remake #2: Sony's Screen Gems and Spyglass are developing a reimagining of the Japanese horror film PULSE, with Dave Boyle attached to direct. Boyle is also set for a pass on a script by Luke Piotrowski. Parker Finn and Jonathan Fass are set to produce for Bad Feeling, the company behind Finn's SMILE films and upcoming Paramount remake the 1981 horror film POSSESSION, alongside Spyglass.
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, PULSE premiered to critical acclaim in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes in 2001. The film is a techno-horror about a group of young people in Tokyo who begin to experience strange phenomena involving missing co-workers and friends, technological breakdown, and a mysterious website. It was remade in 2006 by director Jim Sonzero. (thanks to Deadline.com)
** HOPE: In the remote South Korea village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village.
** BUZZKILL: The film follows a group of sorority sisters who end up trapped with a murderer. Nora's tipsy memories hold the clues to figuring out who is killing their friends, but she can only remember them when she's drunk.
** RESIDENT EVIL: Here's some new posters for the upcoming film.
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** ITHAQUA: This is Ithaqua, the wind with teeth. A remote 1800s fur-trade outpost is plagued by an ancient evil with an insatiable hunger for flesh. The cold is the least of anyone's problems. Directed by Casey Walker and starring Luke Hemsworth, Leenah Robinson, Kevin Durand, Craig Lauzon and Michael Pitt. This is a haunting folk horror experience where isolation, hunger and myth collide.
** HER PRIVATE HELL: Here's a new poster for the film.
** FALL 2 DEADPOINT: Here's some new posters for the upcoming film.
** THE OTHERKIND: A woman struggles after a mysterious encounter at the lake with friends. A troubled cop spirals out of control. Chaos erupts in a sleepy mountain town when terror surfaces.
** BREEDER: An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. But, as he soon learns, there's a catch. BREEDER is coming to theaters October 16.
