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Hammer Films Announces Three New Features!
A few hours ago Variety posted an article on UK horror films and discovered a few details about Hammer Films’ upcoming titles. They already announced that they’ll be remaking the Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, and have launched their online horror series via MySpace entitled BEYOND THE RAVE, now they’ve got three new feature films in the works that you can read about inside.
From Variety:
“Hammer Film Prods. is getting in on the act in the wake of the banner’s revival last year by Dutch producer John De Mol by unveiling a slate of pics far removed from the bodice rippers of the 1960s and 1970s with which it made its name. The iconic studio is prepping three features that are a far cry from the theatrical dueling of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Hammer is set to start production later this year on The Wake Wood, directed by David Keating, The Resident, a chiller directed by Antti Jokinen that is described as being in the tradition of “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” and The Quiet Ones, based on the supposedly true story of a group of Canadian hippie scientists in the 1970s who attempt to create a ghost.
“Those earlier Hammer films were very much of their time, and there is a lot of affection for them, but we have to keep up with audiences’ expectations today,” says Hammer chief exec Simon Oakes. “I like to think of ourselves now as dealing more in the Hitchcockian areas of terror and suspense.“
Read the full article here.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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