Having an insurance director is not uncommon in Hollywood. Aging filmmakers, in case a health issue arises, sometimes need to have one. It seems like that’s what might have occurred on “What Happens at Night.”
The box-office bomb cost $145M to produce and ended up finishing its run with a total of just $31M worldwide in receipts. The film was reportedly a $115M for Lionsgate.
A24 has been keeping quiet about the film, but I hear it was recently screened internally, and a decision should be coming shortly, if not by the end of this month.
Schoenbrun struggled to get ‘Camp Miasma’ made after A24 passed on the project. MUBI eventually came aboard, financing the film with a $10 million budget.
This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.
FRONTRUNNERS
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Toy Story 4
Missing Link
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
The Secret Life of Pets 2
MAJOR THREATS
Weathering With You
Abominable
I Lost My Body
STILL TO SEE
Frozen 2
Funan
Another Day of Life
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Klaus
Spies in Disguise
The Addams Family
Reeves is supposed to direct, David E. Kelley is writing, and just like that, Apple got cold feet — the usual “creative differences” excuse is being cited in the report, and maybe that was indeed the case.