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Hopefully ‘Mandy Lane’ Won’t Be Too Old When Released
I wanted to see Senator’s MANDY LANE when she was young and sexy, not an old hag. Some interesting news was sent to us this morning by B-D regular Joey M. who pointed us to a website that had some interesting news about Jonathan Levine’s All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which has been sitting on the shelves here in the US collecting pounds of dust. Read on to see what the latest is on this popular teen slasher pic…Mark Urman has left ThinkFilm to become head of distribution at Senator Entertainment, reports Pro Networks.
“Why does this matter to independent film fans? Well, word is that one of his first major tasks will be to get ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE out of limbo and get this film into the 1000+ theaters that Senator originally promised when they bought the film from the Weinsteins over a year ago following an auspicious debut at the 2006 Toronto International Film festival (no, that’s not a typo — 2006). One needs only to look back on this blog to see why this is such a “big deal” and why it matters to this reporter.”
So for those of you who haven’t already seen the film, there’s still hope that we’ll get to catch a 35mm print of this baby sometime in the near future. Until then, click here for stills, posters, trailers and more.
In the film a group of high schoolers invite Mandy Lane (Amber Heard), a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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