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Werewolf Colony Discovered in Brazil

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Stone Village is quickly coming along as they’ve not only set up their first production with Bo Zenga’s Stan Helsing, but also plan a trip to Brazil where an entire colony of werewolves have taken residence. Inside you can read about Lobo, which was written by Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colucci.
Scott Steindorff’s Stone Village has acquired “Lobo,” a spec script for an action thriller by Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colucci about a colony of werewolves in Brazil. Ezna Sands has been set to direct.

The film has been fast-tracked for an Oct. 15 production start and will shoot outside Rio de Janeiro. Pic’s under-$15 million budget will be financed independently.

Essential Entertainment has been retained to sell international territories.

In the film, a man receives a photo and letters from his mother’s will, then heads to an isolated town in the Amazon to discover his roots. There, he discovers a near-extinct species of werewolves and his true identity, and he helps the werewolves wage a battle for survival.

The stylized nature of the film is what drew me, because it’s far less a monster movie than a Western in the mold of Sergio Leone’s ‘Once Upon a Time in America,’ ” Sands said. “I have the opportunity to bring back to audience the kind of hero they had in the ’70s, someone as dark and conflicted as the new James Bond or the Dark Knight. Our intention is to tell a single story over three films, and this first chapter is a guy who makes a massive revelation.

Steindorff will produce and Dylan Russell will be executive producer.

The film has begun casting, and IPG is packaging a companion graphic novel that will be written by the scribes.

Sands just completed his feature directing debut, an untitled thriller that mixes elements of fiction and reality.

Stone Village is shooting “Stan Helsing” and recently produced and financed “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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