EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill Leisure, the producers behind field workplace horror hits Smile and Smile 2, and UK gross sales outfit Protagonist Photos, are teaming up on horror Monitor.
Written and directed by Ryan Polly and Matt Black (I Guess You’re Questioning How I Bought Right here) for his or her characteristic debut, the movie is predicated on their in need of the identical identify.
Monitor is produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and John Fischer for Temple Hill (Smile, The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner Trilogy), Nostromo Photos (The Night time Supervisor Season 2 ) is co-producing. Protagonist’s Dave Bishop and George Hamilton function government producers.
In Monitor, when a gaggle of social media moderators refuse to publish a horrifying video, a demonic creature begins following them throughout each display of their lives. Feeding off concern, the creature hunts them down one after the other and assaults them till it will get what it needs… to be set free past the display. Casting discussions are underway.
Protagonist Photos is launching worldwide gross sales on the upcoming American Movie Market, with manufacturing scheduled to start in spring 2025. That is the most recent collaboration between Protagonist and Temple Hill, which started with the slasher horror Clown In A Cornfield which bought out at AFM 2022.
“Our associates at Temple Hill have an extremely profitable observe report for making movies that join with international audiences. They ship as soon as once more with this audacious and daring movie that’s positive to scare the hell out of cinema goers worldwide,” stated Protagonist Photos’ CEO, Dave Bishop. “Monitor is a horror as terrifying as it’s well timed, with its modern tackle the scary on-line world we’re all compelled to navigate. Ryan and Matt have the expertise to ship all of the scares and extra, and we are able to’t wait to leap into manufacturing early subsequent yr.”
Polly and Black added: “The extra we use screens in our every day lives, the extra we study we are able to’t belief them. It’s a common nervousness that we predict is ripe for a killer new horror idea. Temple Hill have been dream collaborators for us and their report within the style speaks for itself. We will’t wait to summon this monster to the display.”
“We’re thrilled to introduce Matt and Ryan’s terrifying filmmaking imaginative and prescient to the world,” the producers shared in a joint assertion. “Monitor is a chilling and well timed exploration of how digital actuality can start to overhaul actual life. To us, it’s The Ring for the social media technology and we are able to’t look forward to audiences all over the place to expertise it.”
Along with Monitor, writer-directors Ryan Polly and Matt Black are in growth on a number of characteristic movie initiatives together with the feature-length variations of their brief movie Pizza Time.
Based by Godfrey and Bowen in 2006, Temple Hill Leisure is the prolific banner behind quite a lot of blockbuster movie franchises, together with the 2022 profitable sleeper hit, Smile, adopted by the field workplace chart-topper, Smile 2, each launched by Paramount Photos. Their book-to-film variations, The Twilight Saga and The Maze Runner trilogy, have grossed greater than $5B and $949M worldwide respectively.
Polly and Black are represented by Jon Kee at Circle Administration + Manufacturing, and Raymond Tambe at JSSK.
