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‘Funhouse’ Trades in Clicks for Lives [First Look]
Bloody Disgusting has the first image and sales art for Funhouse, which is being sold by Stockholm-based SF Studios out of the forthcoming AFM market.
ScreenDaily first reported on the English-language horror film that was recently sold to CIS (Exponenta Film) and Taiwan (Cai Chang International Inc).
Canadian filmmaker Jason William Lee (The Evil in Us) directed the film that, “Follows down-and-out backing singer and celebrity ex-husband Kasper as he is invited to compete in the Funhouse, an online Big Brother-style reality show.
“He joins seven other C-list celebrities from around the globe to compete for a $5m prize, only to see the budding friendships, love connections and brewing rivalries go awry one of the contestants is brutally murdered during the first challenge.”
The films stars Valter Skarsgard (Lord of Chaos), Christopher Gerard (Arrow) and Gigi Saul Guerrero (La Quinceanera).
Funhouse was produced by Michael Gyori of Canada’s Sandcastle Pictures and Henrik Santesson of Sweden’s Ti Bonny Productions.
A Swedish release is scheduled for January 2020.
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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