| | We're coming to you from snow-covered Park City! Yes, we have temporarily traded in our comic books and blockbuster films for puffer jackets, hot cocoa, and the finest of independent cinema. Even though we're turning our attention to Sundance, where horror has a healthy presence, we couldn't let this week pass without giving you a little something. So, welcome to a no-frills edition of the newsletter that has us wired from attending the opening night Midnight movie last night and working into sunrise for this King-size scoop. — Aaron Couch and Borys Kit |
STEPHEN KING'S THE BOOGEYMAN IS CREEPING ITS WAY INTO THEATERS. The horror movie, directed by Rob Savage and produced by 21 Laps, initially was made for the streaming service Hulu, but after a muscular test screening in December, executives at Disney's 20th Century Studios decided to move it to theaters. It will now open June 2, and follows the trajectory of Smile, the Paramount feature that was also intended for streaming but was moved to theaters after a strong test screening. And we all know what happened next, right? (It became a massive hit, silly.) Boogeyman is based on a rather grim story featured in his 1978 horror anthology, Night Shift. The movie version, per the studio, centers on a 16-year-old and her younger sister, both still reeling from the death of their mother, who are targeted by a supernatural boogeyman after their father, a psychologist, has an encounter with a desperate patient in their house. Chris Messina, Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland and Madison Hu star. Boogey on over here for details. | YOU KNOW HIS MUSIC. NOW YOU CAN KNOW HIM. John Williams, the legendary composer behind Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park is getting a documentary about his life and career. Steven Spielberg, Williams' collaborator of almost 50 years, is among those behind the project as an executive producer. Amblin Television, Imagine Documentaries and Nedland Media are in the very early stages of production on the documentary that is being directed by Laurent Bouzereau. Bouzereau is a longtime director of “making of” and behind-the-scenes featurettes, producing several hundred of them since the 1990s, including dozens for Spielberg movies. He is also known for documentaries Five Came Back, which Meryl Streep narrated and for which she won an Emmy, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, and the Dustin Lance Black-focused Mama's Boy. They shoot, he scores. | ➤ Watch your six: Michael B. Jordan is teaming with Chad Stahelski for Rainbow Six. ➤ Walter Hamada's first order of business now that he's overseeing a horror line at Paramount? Bringing back the laid-off Paramount executive who discovered the hit movie Smile. ➤ Trailers: Scream 6 teases Hayden Panettiere’s return; Mandalorian shows off season three. ➤ Tron 3 is back on the grid, with Jared Leto on board (he's been attached since 2017). Pirates 5 co-director Joachim Ronning is in talks to helm the project, called Tron: Ares. ➤ As Cloverfield turns 15, filmmaker Matt Reeves tells Brian Davids about how the fondly remembered found-footage film nearly broke him. ➤ House of the Dragon's Olivia Cooke will star in the horror thriller The Visitation. ➤ Can the fungus in The Last of Us really harm humans? Showrunner Craig Mazin weighs in. Plus, Gabriel Luna breaks down that heartbreaking Last of Us scene. ➤ Mayor of Kingstown co-creator Hugh Dillon says Taylor Sheridan first pitched the show to Jeremy Renner on the set of Wind River. We told you this was lean and mean. It's now time to close things out... |
| | WHILE SOME ASPECTS of the vintage comic book market seem to be cooling, the original comic art segment remains hot, and 2023 kicked off with some scorching sales. A Frank Miller page from Wolverine No. 2 sold for $156,000. But it’s the Heritage Auctions sale of the cover from X-Men No. 98, drawn in 1976 by Dave Cockrum, that caught our eye. It was released early on in X-Men’s publishing return, the book was only a bi-monthly, and Wolverine had yet to emerge as a star character. It wasn’t even clear that the comic would stick around. History did the rest and now, the cover is clearly the center of a lot of desire, selling last week for a whopping $432,000. Enjoy. |
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