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 Bought Right here) for his or her characteristic debut, the movie is predicated on their wanting the identical title.
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 government producers.
In Monitor, when a bunch 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 let loose 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 observe document for making movies that join with world 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 pressured 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 predict is ripe for a killer new horror idea. Temple Hill have been dream collaborators for us and their document 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 will’t watch for audiences in all places to expertise it.”
Along with Monitor, writer-directors Ryan Polly and Matt Black are in improvement 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 various 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 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.
