Ron Perlman has co-founded Watrfall, a fan-powered financing and content platform letting audiences invest, vote, and share profits on films/TV while creators keep control. Launches August 22.
We are seeing more and more of these crowdfunding-style financiers, like LegionM and Eli Roth's Horror Section. It's a great idea to help get out from under the thumb of big studios, but we haven't really seen any major wins from any of these just yet.
Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez (Ugly Baby Productions) are adapting MBC Korea’s hit game show Midnight Horror Story for U.S. TV.
Midnight Horror Story is a South Korean game show where celebrities share ghost stories. Each episode features well-known personalities telling chilling tales, which are then dramatized with cinematic reenactments and immersive sets, usually focusing on comedic interpretations.
It's almost too perfect for the creators of Scary Movie.
Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson (Practice, Practice, Practice) makes his narrative feature directorial debut with period drama Lowndes County. A regular at festivals with his shorts (Sundance’s Cinnamon), Everson’s new film continues his pattern of portraying Black life, history, and community resilience.
Spin Master Entertainment, the studio behind kids’ TV phenomenon PAW Patrol, has just greenlit its first original feature film. Dreamworks veteran David Soren (dir. Turbo) has been tapped to direct the untitled project as the company looks to expand its family animated slate.
Bradley Bredeweg, co-creator of The Fosters and Good Trouble, has a new project, Deluxe Ocean View, his psychological horror debut that follows a journalist who checks into a deserted luxury resort on Cape Cod for a career-saving interview.
Greig Fraser has signed on as DP for Sam Mendes' four Beatles films, an exciting development that comes with a cost he will unfotuely not return for the Batman Part 2.