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Hammer’s ‘Resident’ Finds A Home At Image
While Hammer’s first “new” film in decades (Overture’s Let Me In) didn’t make much of a splash at the box office, a bit of star power (and an original story) should help The Resident fare much better. Image Entertainment seems to think so, since they just picked up the film for US distribution, according to Variety. The movie stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank (trying horror again after The Reaping, Hammer legend Christopher Lee, and the ever awesome Comedian himself, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and concerns a woman (Swank, I assume, though Morgan could pull it off) who moves into a new place and begins to suspect someone else is already living there. So it’s Hider In The House, but with less Busey? I’ll bite. Using terrible grammar and made up words, Variety says the film will hit theaters in the spring.
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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