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Take A ‘Family Vacation’ With Paramount Insurge
Paramount has decided to go on a Family Vacation, buying Eric Reese‘s thriller spec script and setting it up with Daniel Dubiecki’s Allegiance Theater to produce through the Paramount Insurge label.
Unfortunately, the logline is under wraps other than the story centering on a family going on vacation. The fact that it’s described as a thriller and not horror makes me think it’s going to be more of a survival story, although that’s me just speculating.
Dubiecki is teamed with IM Global to produce indie drama “Money Monster” with Jodie Foster coming on board in October to direct. Dubiecki received a best picture Oscar nomination for Up in the Air.
Reese’s spec The Faces has been set up at FilmNation with Grace‘s Paul Solet attached to direct the horror thriller. That story centers on newlyweds who, a year after narrowly escaping a brutal kidnapping, find themselves plagued by a horrifying series of events.
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Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’
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.