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EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas (Power Ballad) and Kathryn Newton (Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come) are group to prima successful MRC‘s vacation scary flick White Elephant, nan first task nether their business pinch Radio Silence and Project X, dubbed RSPX, oriented astir inventive and engaging scary and thriller projects.
Newton reteams pinch Radio Silence and Project X aft starring alongside Samara Weaving successful Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come, nan sequel to their 2019 Searchlight scary movie Ready aliases Not, which premiered astatine SXSW connected May 13 and released successful theaters nan pursuing week.
Directed by Clown successful a Cornfield’s Eli Craig, from a book he wrote pinch JT Billings, White Elephant’s logline is arsenic follows: Eight friends. One prize. Zero trust. Their yearly festive vacation gift speech spirals into a cutthroat crippled of Christmas carnage.
MRC is nan workplace financing nan movie pinch Spencer Berman, Nick Jonas, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, James Vanderbilt, Tyler Gillett, and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin producing. Exec producers are Billings, Ryan McDonough, Amanda Drake, Newton, Scott Levine, and Chad Villella. Production began this week.
Last month, Jonas premiered Power Ballad, a caller philharmonic dramedy wherever he stars other Paul Rudd, to captious acclaim astatine SXSW. Directed by Once and Sing Street’s John Carney, nan movie releases via Lionsgate connected June 5. In film, Jonas’ different caller credits see You’re Cordially Invited and The Good Half. This year, he’ll besides beryllium seen starring alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart successful nan latest Jumanji movie from Columbia Pictures. He is repped by UTA and Philymack.
In summation to Ready aliases Not 2, Newton has precocious been seen successful films for illustration Abigail, Lisa Frankenstein, and Griffin successful Summer. At SXSW this year, she was besides seen starring alongside Elizabeth Banks and Juliette Lewis successful DreamQuil, a caller thriller from Alex Prager. Upcoming projects see nan Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Samo Lives and Amazon MGM’s thriller The Devil’s Mouth. She is repped by Entertainment 360, WME, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Best known for helming nan cult scary drama Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, starring Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk, Craig is coming disconnected Clown successful a Cornfield, a slasher he directed and co-wrote that group an opening play grounds for IFC Films. He is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Prior to Ready aliases Not 2, Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett rebooted nan Scream franchise alongside Project X. Upcoming, they’re group to reteam pinch nan institution connected a caller installment of The Mummy franchise, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, for Universal. They are repped by Brillstein, CAA, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Coming disconnected a franchise grounds pinch Scream 7, nan highest-grossing introduction successful Scream‘s 30-year history, which grossed complete $204M worldwide, Project X is besides known for Nuremberg, Fountain of Youth, Abigail and nan deed Netflix bid The Night Agent.
The workplace down nan precocious released Wuthering Heights, G20 and All of You, MRC’s upcoming slate includes The Only Living Pickpocket successful New York, The Gallerist, A Place successful Hell, The Best is Yet To Come, Unabomber, and Eloise.
White Elephant‘s co-writer/EP Billings is repped by Paradigm, Silver Mass Entertainment, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
