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Strike Entertainment Producers Call Making ‘The Thing’ “Irresistible”
Shooting is gearing up to begin in British Columbia and Toronto for Universal Pictures’ The Thing, a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 remake of The Thing from Another World (1951). Strike Entertainment producing team Marc Abraham and Eric Newman chatted with the LA Times about the alien-horror pic and a bit about how having the chance to tell this tale was “irresistible”.
“I’d be the first to say no one should ever try to do ‘Jaws’ again and I certainly wouldn’t want to see anyone remake ‘The Exorcist,’ ” Newman tells the LA Times. “And we really felt the same way about ‘The Thing.’ It’s a great film. But once we realized there was a new story to tell, with the same characters and the same world, but from a very different point of view, we took it as a challenge. It’s the story about the guys who are just ghosts in Carpenter’s movie — they’re already dead. But having Universal give us a chance to tell their story was irresistible.”
Penned by Eric Heisserer, in a remote Antarctica outpost, an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath the ice. When a group of ambitious scientists decide to thaw out one of the creatures inside, they’re in for the terrifying fight of their lives…
“That’s the story we tell in this film,” says Marc Abraham, who is producing the movie with his Strike Entertainment partner Eric Newman. “We go back to that original Norwegian camp and try to figure out what happened. It’s like a crime scene, with an ax in the door, and the audience gets to be the detective, trying to piece together what horrible things have occurred.”
Being helmed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton are signed on to star.
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‘This Is How the World Ends’ – New Movie Claims to Be First Straight-to-VHS Release In 20 Years
A whole bunch of new horror movies have made the leap to VHS in recent years, thanks to fan-run companies including Witter Entertainment and Lunchmeat. Everything from Terrifier 2 & Terrifier 3 to Alien Romulus and Mandy has found itself on VHS as the once-dead format shows new signs of life, but what about a brand new movie that’s ONLY released on VHS?
Low budget sci-fi movie This Is How the World Ends is claiming to be the first straight-to-VHS release in twenty years, according to a new report from Variety this week.
From South African director Robert dos Santos, This Is How the World Ends centers on a brother who sets out to find his sister at a hedonistic party deep in the desert.
Here’s the synopsis: “When the war between humans and the AI Machine States breaks out, misinformation and confusion reigns supreme. While the government pumps out reports that everything is going to be okay, the underground news reports that this might very well be the end.
“In the midst of this uncertainty, something unique is happening. The party to end all parties, dubbed the last party on earth, is taking place deep in the desert.
“While some are living with blinkers on, Danni Freeman (Frances Shalto-Douglas) knows that this is the end, and she makes the choice to journey deep into the desert to experience what life has to offer for one last time. Believing that this war will blow over, Tom Freeman (Josh Kempen) is sent to track down his sister and bring her back.
“But with a world that is falling apart at the seams, he must overcome a dangerous journey to the end of the world, as well as his own mortality.”
According to Variety’s report, This Is How the World Ends will be released on VHS for National VCR Day on June 7, and the outlet notes that “pre-orders from around the world have already surpassed 1,000 copies.” The company VHS Haven is distributing the release in the U.S.
“What does VHS in 2026 look like and how can this be a new reimagining of what ‘straight-to-VHS’ means,” dos Santos explains. “It used to be proper slander, if someone said ‘straight-to-VHS,’ it meant terrible. But the whole point of this is to reclaim that and say, look, straight-to-VHS is actually saying that this is a well-made film, made with intention for an audience.”
You can pre-order This Is How the World Ends on VHS right now!
Watch the official trailer below.
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