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Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ Moves from June to September 2020
Universal was set to bring a horror icon back to life on June 12, 2020 with the release of director Nia DaCosta‘s (Little Woods) Candyman, a “spiritual sequel” to the original classic from 1992. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic that’s forced movie theaters across the world to shut down, Universal will no longer be releasing Candyman on that date.
The brand new Candyman film will now slash up theaters on September 25, 2020.
Provided Halloween Kills doesn’t move, we’ll now be getting a new Candyman movie and a new Halloween movie within one month of each other. And we can’t complain about that!
Candyman comes from producer Jordan Peele, who co-wrote the film with Win Rosenfeld.
“For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.”
“With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.”
Alongside Peele, Win Rosenfeld and Ian Cooper produced for Monkeypaw Productions.
Production companies also include MGM and Bron Creative.
Movies
‘Skeletons’ – Creature Feature from ‘Strange Darling’ Director Receives Summer 2027 Release Date
Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner will reunite with their Strange Darling filmmaker JT Mollner for Skeletons, an upcoming creature feature that also stars Brie Larson and John Goodman. We’ve learned this week that it’s releasing in Summer 2027.
Skeletons will release in theaters from Sony on June 4, 2027.
The film’s cast will also include Ione Skye, Keith Carradine and Daithí Ó Haragáin.
From Sony Pictures, Skeletons is said to be a “modern take on the creature horror film.”
J.J. Abrams is producing. Mollner will direct from a script by Brian Duffield (Love and Monsters, No One Will Save You), based on the short story Fail-Safe by Philip Fracassi.
Skeletons is “told from the perspective of a young boy who slowly begins to discover that his beloved parents are hiding a disturbing secret about his mother’s true nature.”
The film hails from Infrared, Bad Robot Productions, and Assemble Media.