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UPDATE: TV: ‘Halloween: The Inside Story’ Doc Airing This October
Updates inside! Phil Nobile’s feature length documentary, “Halloween: The Inside Story”, will be hitting A&E’s Biography Channel on October 28th, 9PM ET/8PM CT/10PM PT. The film will look back at John Carpenter’s classic ’78 indie slasher that started it all. Dread Central reports that for his feature Nobile and company have got creator John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, and tons more including Irwin Yablans, Dean Cundey, Nick Castle, Nancy Kyes, PJ Soles, Charles Cyphers, Tony Moran, John Graham, Tommy Lee Wallace, Kim Gottlieb-Walker, Kyle Richards, Brian Andrews, Danielle Harris, and even Rob Zombie.Will Sanders writes in with a few more bits of info, explaining that the doc was filmed at the Myers House in North Carolina.
Nobile will be donating a piece of their set to the Myers house. “It’s a “Strode Realty” prop sign (pictured below) that they used in the background of the interviews and he got it autographed by John Carpenter!,” says Sanders.
The doc will also include Q&A footage from the “Fright Night Film Fest ’08” and an autograph session and screening of “Halloween” at the Georgetown Drive-In from 2008.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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