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Icon UK Relaunches, Acquiring Sundance Films ‘The Guest,’ ‘The Babadook’ and ‘Cold in July’
ScreenDaily reports that Icon Film Distribution, which re-launched last autumn with the backing of New Sparta, has announced its comeback slate of seven titles for UK distribution.
The first films acquired for the new Icon slate include the Sundance Film Festival horror hits The Babadook (read our review), Adam Wingard’s The Guest (read our review)and Jim Mickle’s Cold in July!
Acclaimed Sundance horror The Babadook (trailer below), the directorial debut of writer/director Jennifer Kent starring Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall and Noah Wiseman follows a single mother struggling to cope with her seven-year-old son’s feral temperament. eOne handled sales.
Director Adam Wingard’s thriller The Guest (pictured), sold by HanWay, stars Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens in the story of a family that befriends a man who is not what he claims to be.
Jim Mickle’s thriller Cold in July, acquired from Memento, charts the stories of two fathers pitted against each other in revenge who must band together to uncover a darker truth. Dexter’s Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson star.
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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