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[R.I.P.] ‘The Bye Bye Man’ Director Stacy Title Has Passed Away
We’ve learned the sad news today that filmmaker Stacy Title, who most recently directed 2017 horror movie The Bye Bye Man, has passed away at the age of 56 after a battle with ALS.
In addition to The Bye Bye Man, which starred Doug Jones as the title character, Stacy Title also directed 1999’s Let the Devil Wear Black and 2006’s Snoop Dogg-starring Hood of Horror.
She was nominated for an Academy Award for her short film Down on the Waterfront in 1994.
“I don’t want to die, but I’m going to eventually,” Title told The Hollywood Reporter in September 2018. “But until then I want to live and direct — doing what I love will be part of my legacy. I don’t want to sit shut away in my chair. I think this will be a beautiful, fun, challenging process for all of us, and I am happy. I want to stay happy.”
Doug Jones paid tribute on Twitter today, writing: “Heartbreaking news of our dear The Bye Bye Man director Stacy Title. She had the kind of creativity, passion, and guts that never listened to anyone tell her she couldn’t. Whatever it was, she could. May she rest in God’s peace.”
Title is survived by her husband Jonathan Penner, son Cooper and daughter Ava Rae.
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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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