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Trauma Causes ‘Malicious’ Entity to Stalk Vertical Entertainment
Vertical Entertainment has picked up the North American rights to Malicious, a horror thriller from writer-director Michael Winnick, reports THR.
“The movie tells of a young newlywed (Bojana Novakovic) who suffers a traumatic event, then finds herself haunted — and connected — to a malicious entity with murderous intentions.“
“It is only when Adam calls upon Dr. Clark, a professor of parapsychology at the university, that the true horror of what they have encountered becomes clear.”
Bojana Novakovic, who can be seen in Drag Me to Hell and Devil, stars with Josh Stewart (Insidious: Chapter 4, The Collector), Delroy Lindo (Gone in 60 Seconds, Point Break), Melissa Bolona (Dog Eat Dog), and Yvette Yates (“Channel Zero”).
“The fear and the fragility of having a newborn weighs on every couple, and in Malicious, those terrors are heightened in unexpected ways,” said executive producer Shaun Redick.
Vertical aims to release in theaters in the summer.
The movie was produced by Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti. Exec producers include Redick and Yvette Yates of Impossible Dream Entertainment, Ali Jazayeri, Kevin Alexander Heard, Viviana Zarragoitia and Raymond Mansfield.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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