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Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer “Strange Darling,” the acclaimed horror film from director JT Mollner, has landed a major U.S. distribution deal at veteran producer Bob Yari’s new company Magenta Light Studios. Premiering at the genre event Fantastic Fest in 2023, the Miramax-produced thriller has been universally praised (it currently sits at 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 14 reviews) for its inventive narrative structure and lead performances.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount‘s Smile sequel is rounding out its cast with Raúl Castillo (Cassandro) and Miles Gutierrez-Riley (The Wilds). The film’s plot and character details are being kept under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Gelula (Dream Scenario) has joined Paramount Pictures‘ untitled sequel to Smile, the 2022 horror thriller from Parker Finn, which went on to outsized success in theaters after initially being set to debut on Paramount+.

Kyle Gallner has been acting since he was a teenager and has appeared in a range of movies over the years including Jennifer’s Body, The Finest Hours, and most recently, Scream and Smile. In 2023, the actor released several amazing projects, but due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, was unable to discuss them. However, as soon as the strike was over THN grabbed the opportunity to speak with the actor at length about his films.Yesterday we began our three part interview with a delve into Gallner’s Mother, May I? Today The Passenger steps into the spotlight.

We at team THN have long been supporters of Kyle Gallner. The actor has consistently chosen interesting projects. In 2023, Gallner had a wealth of new titles arrive, but sadly their releases clashed with the SAG-AFTRA strike. With the strike now over and actors finally on the way to a fair deal, it is at last time to discuss what Gallner has been up to. In the first of a three part series, THN spoke with the actor about his recent releases Mother, May I?and The Passenger, as well as looking back at some of his other projects.

Michael Nordine author Serial-killer movies are a dime a dozen these days, with the true-crime industrial complex exploiting the ill-deeds sprees of increasingly obscure murderers to keep up with audience demand. Anyone wary of the genre might balk at the idea of “Strange Darling,” a cat-and-mouse drama about the tail end of a murder spree, but to do so would be to miss out on an exemplar of the form. Writer-director JT Mollner flips the script on this tired genre, crafting the cleverest thriller of its kind in a while with a mighty assist from a pair of killer performances by co-leads Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer The open road is a terrifying place for a young woman in the first look at “Strange Darling,” a horror-thriller from director J.T. Mollner set to premiere at this week’s Fantastic Fest. Described as “one day in the twisted love life of a serial killer,” the project stars Willa Fitzgerald (Amazon’s “Reacher”) and Kyle Gallner (“Smile,” “Scream”).

EXCLUSIVE: Grace Van Dien has signed with WME for representation.

At the risk of diving into the annoying and frankly nonsensical discourse surrounding nepotism in the film industry, Amy Redford’s sophomore feature “What Comes Around” represents a curious object. Directed by Robert Redford’s daughter, starring Joaquin Phoenix’s sister Summer Phoenix and Casper Van Dien’s daughter Grace Van Dien (not to mention a cameo appearance by Phoenix and Casey Affleck’s son Indiana), this little IFC Films thriller has more than enough tangential associations.

Grace Van Dien has nothing but praise for male costars who make her job easier — which includes Stranger Things costar Joseph Quinn and What Comes Around‘s Kyle Gallner.

Michael Nordine author There’s more than one way to be a passenger in life, not all of which involve vehicles. That’s certainly the case when it comes to the protagonist in Carter Smith’s propulsive new thriller, which functions like a therapy session on wheels between a murderous shrink and an unwilling patient.

Paramount’s Parker Finn-directed horror pic Smile has laughed all the way past the $200M mark worldwide. After six weeks in release – and with scary strong holds – the split through Sunday is $99.1M domestic and $103.8M from the international box office for a global cume of $202.9M.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that IFC Films has snapped up the North American rights to Amy Redford’s What Comes Around, which made its world premiere at TIFF under the title Roost. The movie will hit select theatres and VOD in February and stream exclusively on AMC+ in May 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Sky Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Mother, May I?, the psychological thriller starring Kyle Gallner (Smile) and Holland Roden (Teen Wolf). 

Paramount’s Parker Finn-directed horror pic Smile has laughed its way across the $100M mark globally. And it did so in under two weeks of release. Through Tuesday, the gross is $102.3M worldwide, made up of $55.5M domestic and $46.8M from the international box office. 

Smile has received rave first reactions on social media from fans.Written and directed by debut filmmaker Parker Finn, Smile follows Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), who, after witnessing a traumatic incident involving a patient, starts to experience terrifying and inexplainable occurrences.Alongside Bacon, the cast also includes The Boys star Jessie T.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Paramount’s “Smile” debuted to a sizzling $22 million, easily topping the domestic box office. The horror film beat out the weekend’s other new wide release, Universal’s LGBTQ romantic comedy “Bros,” which landed in fourth with a paltry $4.8 million debut. “Smile” ranks as one of the better original horror debuts of the year, beating out 20th Century Studios’ “Barbarian” ($10 million) and Sony’s “The Invitation” ($7 million). As the box office enters October, the horror genre will continue to take center stage with Universal’s “Halloween Ends” releasing in two weeks and hoping to cash in on the excitement for thrills and chills. The box office result for “Smile” is a frighteningly good haul, seeing as it cost Paramount a measly $17 million to produce. The company used some clever marketing tactics this week by strategically placing paid actors, with huge, creepy smiles plastered on their faces, behind home plate during televised Major League Baseball games. Social media users quickly noticed the unsettling fans, who wore “Smile” t-shirts, when the cameras zoomed in on batters stepping up to the plate.

J. Kim Murphy “Smile” has something grin about this weekend. The creeper is projected to land a $19 million debut from 3,645 locations. It’s a fantastic start for the genre film, which carries a modest $17 million production budget. Compared to other original horror entries this year, Universal’s supernatural kidnap thriller “The Black Phone” kicked off with $23 million while 20th Century Studios’ “Barbarian” opened to $10 million. “Smile” landed a mildly positive “B-” grade through research firm Cinema Score, though such a figure is standard for a horror release. The film has drawn good buzz with solid reviews, scoring a 79% from top critics on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Variety‘s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised the film in his review, writing that it “sets up nearly everything — its highly effective creep factor, its well-executed if familiar shock tactics, its interlaced theme of trauma and suicide — before the opening credits.”

“Smile,” which stars Sosie Bacon and Kyle Gallner and just had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin before opening this Friday (September 30), is super creepy and unsettling.But how do you watch the new movie? Read on to find out:“Smile” is, at present, exclusively playing in movie theaters. This is honestly probably a good thing, as its effectiveness is directly related to the amount of teenagers screaming and throwing their popcorn around you. This is a real matinee-at-the-mall movie, in the best possible way.Paramount+ is pretty slippery when it comes to when its movies are hitting the service.

Written and directed by Parker Finn, Smile personifies trauma and examines its ripple effect and how it connects people, places, and things. The film stars Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, and Kyle Gallner.

eerily grinning fans at a baseball game or Eichner running down New York City streets with Paul Rudd and a pack of lesbians. For a comparison for “Smile,” Universal and Blumhouse’s “The Black Phone” from this summer, another original horror film, managed $3 million in its Thursday previews before opening to $23.6 million.

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax is producing the J.T. Mollner directed thriller Strange Darling which is currently shooting in Portland, OR with Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall of the House of Usher, Scream: The TV Series), Kyle Gallner (Smile, Dinner in America), Emmy Award nominee Ed Begley Jr. (St. Elsewhere, Better Call Saul), and Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady, Black Swan).

Tomris Laffly A humdrum thriller that clumsily digs into themes of sexual and emotional trauma, Amy Redford’s sophomore feature “Roost” follows Anna (Grace Van Dien), an archetypal perceptive teenage girl on the cusp of maturity. Because she’s the observant kind who yearns for big ideas and possibilities outside of her small suburban world, it’s no surprise that it isn’t a square teenage boy from her school that romantically sweeps Anna off her feet, but a man of nearly 30 years of age she’s met online. He’s the creepily mysterious Eric (Kyle Gallner, chillingly effective), someone who ignites Anna’s all-consuming emotions, shares her love of Emily Dickinson and notices (at least on the surface) the complexities of this young girl who wants to cross over to adulthood fast. But when he shows up at Anna’s doorstep uninvited all too abruptly after traveling hundreds of miles, he rattles the disturbed Anna, who struggles with saying a firm no to Eric’s disarming demeanor.

previously announced, the directing team known as Radio Silence, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, will also return, as will co-screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick as they tackle the next chapter for the terrifying Ghostface killer.Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ will release the currently untitled “Scream 6” in theaters on March 31, 2023.Project X Entertainment’s Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein and William Sherak are serving as producers (“Scream,” “Ambulance”). Creator Kevin Williamson and the third member of Radio Silence, Chad Villella, are executive producing alongside Spyglass’ Gary Barber and Peter Oillataguerre, Ron Lynch, Cathy Konrad and Marianne Maddalena.In the fifth film, which released this January and earned $140 million at the worldwide box office, Barrera and Ortega played sisters who naturally had a tie to the murders as told in the original “Scream” from 1996 as directed by Wes Craven, and Savoy Brown, with her sibling played by Gooding, were standouts of the new film for playing the film literate, fourth wall-breaking character who introduces the terms “re-quel” and “lega-sequel” to explain how rebooted franchises always cast fresh faced young actors alongside the stars of the original from decades earlier.Sure enough, “Scream” additionally starred Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell alongside newcomers Kyle Gallner, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton and Sonia Ammar.“Scream” (2022) is currently available on Digital, Blu-ray and is streaming on Paramount+.Weaving is repped by CAA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

The trailer for Smile, Paramount’s latest horror film, debuted online and on TikTok this week and if you love scary films…this one is for you!

The terrifying new trailer for “Smile” has been released.

The Paramount Players Parker Finn written and directed movie, Smile, is be hitting theaters on Sept. 30. That’s also the weekend when Universal has the gay romantic Billy Eichner comedy Bros. 

previously announced, the directing team known as Radio Silence, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, will also return, as will co-screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick as they tackle the next chapter for the terrifying Ghostface killer. Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ will release the currently untitled “Scream 6” in theaters on March 31, 2023.

Deadline already told you that a Scream sequel is happening with directors Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) returning and James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick co-writing the screenplay.

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Gallner (Scream 5) and Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) have been cast in lead roles in Blumhouse Television and Epix’s latest dramatic-thriller The Passenger directed by Carter Smith.