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The Trailer for ‘Candyman’ is Just Around the Corner
It’s hard for a distributor to keep their trailer launch a secret, especially since they must have it classified in various countries prior to release. This is how many sites get ahead of things and make wild proclamations (like with the surprise teaser drop for Spiral).
The Jordan Peele-produced Candyman sequel has officially been classified by Alberta Film Ratings, a source I personally have tracked for over a decade. They are an official government-run company that classifies footage before it’s screened in Alberta theaters.
With that, the release of the first Candyman trailer is just around the corner. MGM has the spiritual sequel scheduled for release on June 12th of this year, which means it’s time to get the show on the road if they’re going to make that date. It’s been suggested that the trailer could find itself attached to Universal’s The Invisible Man this coming Friday, which would land the footage online prior to that. We have put an email into MGM for confirmation and will report back with any updates.
Directed by Nia DaCosta, the cast is led by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Us, Aquaman), and Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) co-wrote the script, which is linked directly to the original classic. The sequel returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. Cassie Kramer has taken over the role of Helen Lyle from Virginia Madsen. However, we’re told that Tony Todd returns as Candyman.
Watch this spot for more as it comes in. Be our victim. Thanks to Chad L. for the heads up.
From director Sébastien Vaniček, Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters July 10, but that’s just one of two brand new Evil Dead movies releasing in the next two years.
Evil Dead Wrath recently wrapped production, with the upcoming film from director Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) set for theatrical release on April 7, 2028.
We’ve known virtually nothing about the movie up to this point, but a recent interview with producer Rob Tapert has surfaced this week (thanks, Dread Central) and it reveals a very surprising bit of information about Evil Dead Wrath. The film is set in 1972!!
Tapert told the students at Michigan State University during a chat, “Evil Dead Wrath is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.”
That means Evil Dead Wrath takes place even before the arrival of Ash Williams and friends to that infamous cabin in the woods, which should give the film a whole new kind of flavor.
Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was of course set in the Middle Ages, but Evil Dead Wrath will take place chronologically before Ash Williams was transported into medieval times!
“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the film’s look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock,” Tapert notes. “Still available. A lot of movies shot on back then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”
Tapert calls Wrath “very Tarantino-esque, very deliberate. [Galluppi] made a movie, not a horror movie, that I liked a great deal called Last Stop in Yuma County. It’s worth looking up.”
The Last Stop in Yuma County, it’s interesting to note, is also set in the 1970s!
Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass”), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic), and Ella Oliphant will star in Evil Dead Wrath.
Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi and franchise producer Rob Tapert are producing. Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin will executive produce alongside Romel Adam and Jose Canas.