Andre Ovredal Directing Horror Pic For Paramount & Walter Hamada’s 18hz
Exclusive: Andre Ovredal, the director of
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, is returning to horror with a new project that has not yet been named at Paramount Pictures.
Coin Operated, a production company owned by former Warner Bros. executive Walter Hamada, is producing alongside It film scribe Gary Dauberman as part of a first-look deal with Paramount.
Zachary Donohue, T.W. Burgess wrote the script, which is being kept secret.
Hamada also produces Primate, which is currently being produced by the studio. Dauberman’s adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel Salem’s Lot was recently streamed by Max. Dauberman wrote several installments of The Conjuring franchise, including The Nun Franchise and Annabelle Franchise. Annabelle Comes Home was his feature directorial debut. Dauberman’s King’s It feature film grossed $1.1 Billion.
Ovredal has also directed Amblin’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter and the film Mortal. Scary Stories to Tell, owned by Lionsgate, was a money maker for CBS Films. It opened to $20.9M in August 2019 before soaring to $68.9M at home and $104.5M internationally. Ovredal’s representatives are WME, Industry Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
The sequel to Paramount’s hit horror film Smile, Smile 2 will be released on October 18. Smile, a Paramount+ film that was re-released as a theatrical release and grossed $105,9M in the US, and $217.4M globally, has been released on October 18.
Hamada signed his first multi-year contract with Paramount Pictures in November 2022. Hamada was the man behind the Conjuring and It films at New Line and then the DC movies at Warner Bros.
