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‘Twilight’ Author’s Alien Invasion Finds ‘Host’

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Open Road Films is in talks to acquire domestic rights to Stephenie Meyer’s pic The Host, one of the hot titles at this year’s Cannes market, reports Variety.

Pic, from “The Twilight Saga” scribe and toplining Saoirse Ronan, is eyeing a January start date.

Helmed by Andrew Niccol (who also adapted the screenplay of Meyer’s tome), “The Host,” published in 2008, “revolves around the takeover of Earth by an alien race known as Souls.

Open Road was founded as a joint venture earlier this year by AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group; Tom Ortenberg came onboard two months ago as CEO. Distrib, which announced its acquisition of “Killer Elite” in Cannes, will pursue mid-range-budgeted pics pegged for nationwide rollouts.

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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Brings the Netflix Franchise into the 1980s

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Netflix’s Fear Street franchise launched back in Summer 2021 with three movies, the trilogy saga telling one complete story that spanned from 1666 all the way up to 1994.

Directed by Leigh Janiak, the three movies were Fear Street: 1994, Fear Street: 1978 and Fear Street: 1666, the first film taking a page out of the Scream playbook, the second paying tribute to the golden age of slasher cinema, and the final film turning the clock even further back. What’s next from the saga? The fourth film is titled Fear Street: Prom Queen.

Coming soon, Fear Street: Prom Queen is based on the same-titled book that R.L. Stine published in 1992, and it’s set to take the film franchise – yet again – into a brand new decade.

Fear Street: Prom Queen will be nestled between the events of Fear Street: 1994 and Fear Street: 1978, with the new movie confirmed this week to be set in the late 1980s!

In Fear Street: Prom Queen, “Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.”

Matt Palmer (Calibre) is directing the franchise’s upcoming fourth installment.

The Prom Queen was book #15 in R.L. Stine’s teen franchise, originally published on March 1, 1992. If you’d like to read it before the movie comes out, you can always find copies on eBay.

No word yet on when the Netflix movie will be released. Stay tuned for updates.

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