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Halle Berry’s ‘Kidnap’ Has a Release Date But it Might Not Have a Distributor

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7 years ago

November 8, 2016

The Halle Berry-led thriller Kidnap has a release date of March 10th, 2017, moved from December 2nd, but don’t get your ransom money sorted out just yet as the film might not have a distributor, according to Deadline. The situation is that the film was produced by Relativity Media but they’re going through serious financial woes at the moment, including potentially hitting a stage where they have to go through liquidation, so they simply can’t make the release happen. Therefore, the film is being shopped around for a potential distributor.

Here’s the kicker: if the March 10th release date holds, it will go up against Kong: Skull Island, which is basically a death sentence. That movie has generated serious buzz and it’s only going to amplify in the months and weeks leading up to its release.

Kidnap is directed by Luis Prieto and written by Knate Lee and follows a mother who is hellbent on rescuing her kidnapped son.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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3 hours ago

April 19, 2024

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

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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