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New Animated Movie ‘Scoob!’ Skipping Theaters and Releasing Digitally in May

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4 years ago

April 21, 2020

Warner Bros. had originally been set to release the brand new animated film Scoob! in theaters on May 15th, but the movie had been bumped off the release schedule last month.

Today, via Deadline, we’ve learned that the film is going to be skipping theaters entirely. On May 15th, Scoob! will instead be released for digital viewing in the US and Canada.

Deadline details, “Scoob! will be available for a 48-hour rental PVOD period for U.S. $19.99 or [purchase] price of $24.99.”

Scoob! tells the never-before told stories of Scooby-Doo’s origins and the greatest mystery in the career of the group known as Mystery Inc.

The film is set to reveal how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined with young detectives Fred, Velma and Daphne to form the famous Mystery Inc. Now, with hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world.

As they race to stop this global “dogpocalypse,” the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone imagined.

The cast includes Zac Efron as Fred, Amanda Seyfried as Daphne, Gina Rodriguez as Velma, Will Forte as Shaggy, and Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo.

Jason Isaacs, Mark Wahlberg, Mckenna Grace, Kiersey Clemons, Iain Armitage, Ken Jeong, Tracy Morgan, Ariana Greenblatt and Pierce Gagnon also voice characters.

Tony Cervone directed the film, written by Kelly Fremon Craig from a story by Matt Lieberman.

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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18 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.