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A24 acquired microbudget occult-podcast horror Undertone (made for a reported $500,000 after premieres at Fantasia and Sundance’s Midnight) and projects a roughly $7M opening weekend — a high ROI signal for microbudget horror; the story also covers box office context for Hoppers and Universal’s Reminders of Him.
NEON will release HOKUM, a supernatural horror set in an aging Irish inn starring Adam Scott, with a theatrical release set for May 1; new trailer has dropped and the film is produced by Weapons (producers attached).
Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) revealed nine inaugural grantees drawn from 2,000 submissions — backed by a $40M commercial fund plus $10M nonprofit Venture Studio — supporting projects including Trevor Noah’s Beyond Day Zero, Rapman’s Sierra Leone political thriller, Mohamed Kordofani’s About Love & September Laws, Ghanaian spy thriller United States of Africa, Nigerian sci‑fi romance Bako, and Ghanaian comedy‑horror The Return; the slate represents over $60M in production spend across Africa.
Blumhouse released the trailer for Obsession, written and directed by Curry Barker: the teen-targeted horror follows a young man whose wish-to-love toy (One Wish Willow) triggers a violent, obsessive romance; the film premiered at TIFF and is set for a May 15 theatrical release, with Jason Blum executive-producing.
Christopher Landon is set to write and direct supernatural horror Final Boarding for Sony’s Screen Gems, adapting a short story by Clarence Hammond and working from a prior draft by Javier; Deadline first reported the attachment.
Producer J. Miles Dale has built a long-standing production hub in Toronto with Guillermo del Toro—shooting multiple projects there including Frankenstein—and the article credits Dale for elevating Canadian artisans who make up much of Frankenstein’s Oscar-nominated technical teams.
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