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Paramount Exploring the Horrors of Dating Apps With ‘Gasp’
It’s Fatal Attraction for the smartphone age.
Online dating is a pretty scary thing. With one swipe of your finger, you can connect with a total stranger, and with a few taps of a few buttons, you can set up a real-life meeting with that person… who may or may not even be who they’ve presented. Dating apps have undoubtedly connected true soulmates, but like all things, there’s a dark underbelly to the whole scene.
And Paramount is set to explore that dark side.
Deadline reports that Paramount has acquired the thriller pitch Gasp for Offspring Entertainment. The script is set to be penned by Mario Celaya, with Jessica Sharzer (“American Horror Story”) supervising and co-producing. Jennifer Gibgot and Adam Shankman will produce.
The film is inspired by a number of true stories of women who are getting killed by men they are meeting on dating apps:
A female detective has to go undercover online to catch a killer who is murdering women he meets on a specific popular dating app. She starts to fall for one of the suspects who has been cleared, only to discover that he may in fact be the killer.
More as we learn it.
The Vice Press Home Video label is back, and we’ve learned that they’re joining forces with Paramount Home Entertainment to bring Alex Proyas’ classic The Crow back to VHS.
Featuring artwork by Matt Ferguson, and formatted by both Matt Ferguson and Florey, the upcoming VHS release from Vice Press Home Video comes in two editions.
The standard slipcase edition of 1,250 features a red on tape design and will be available from both Vice Press, along with Amazon, HMV and Rarewaves on PAL format.
The Vice Press Exclusive Edition release of 250 features white tapes with black on tape design, and will only be available from Vice Press and will only be available on UK PAL format.
The Crow will be available to pre-order at 7pm ET tonight, June 22 at Vice-Press.com! Please note that PAL Format tapes will only play on European VHS players.
You’ll be able to grab both editions for £34.99 each.
In the 1994 movie starring the late Brandon Lee, Eric Draven’s fiancée is killed alongside Draven, setting the film’s revenge storyline into motion. It spawned a handful of sequels.
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