EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill Leisure, the producers behind field workplace horror hits Smile and Smile 2, and UK gross sales outfit Protagonist Footage, are teaming up on horror Monitor.
Written and directed by Ryan Polly and Matt Black (I Guess You’re Questioning How I Acquired Right here) for his or her function debut, the movie relies 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 Footage (The Night time Supervisor Season 2 ) is co-producing. Protagonist’s Dave Bishop and George Hamilton function govt 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 desires… to be set free past the display. Casting discussions are underway.
Protagonist Footage 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 offered out at AFM 2022.
“Our pals at Temple Hill have an extremely profitable monitor file for making movies that join with international audiences. They ship as soon as once more with this audacious and daring movie that’s certain to scare the hell out of cinema goers worldwide,” mentioned Protagonist Footage’ CEO, Dave Bishop. “Monitor is a horror as terrifying as it’s well timed, with its modern tackle the horrifying 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 will’t wait to leap into manufacturing early subsequent yr.”
Polly and Black added: “The extra we use screens in our day by day lives, the extra we study we will’t belief them. It’s a common anxiousness that we expect is ripe for a killer new horror idea. Temple Hill have been dream collaborators for us and their file within the style speaks for itself. We are able to’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 will’t await audiences in all places to expertise it.”
Along with Monitor, writer-directors Ryan Polly and Matt Black are in growth on a number of function movie tasks together with the feature-length diversifications of their brief movie Pizza Time.
Based by Godfrey and Bowen in 2006, Temple Hill Leisure is the prolific banner behind plenty 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 Footage. Their book-to-film diversifications, 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.
