Halloween Graveyard Smash Song ‘Monster Mash’ Getting Animated Feature at Miramax

Since 1962, the graveyard smash hit song “Monster Mash” caught on in a flash to become a defining song of Halloween. Per Deadline, the catchy Halloween tune will become an animated feature for Miramax. Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman, behind such haunted hits as Netflix’s “Wednesday“ and The Addams Family animated movies at MGM, has optioned the rights from […]

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‘Halloween’ – Miramax TV Series Will Be a “Creative Reset” for the Franchise; Here’s the Latest

We had learned this past October that Miramax landed the TV rights to the Halloween franchise, joining forces with Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films to bring Michael Myers to the small screen. Miramax will be developing and co-producing the Halloween saga’s first ever TV series, and Miramax head Marc Helwig provides an update to Deadline […]

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‘Halloween’ – Miramax Slashes Into the TV Rights to the Franchise!

In the wake of Bloody Disgusting’s exclusive report about Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films shopping the TV rights to the Halloween franchise, with Miramax and A24 in the mix, Deadline has officially confirmed today that Miramax has landed the TV rights. Deadline reports, “Miramax Television has signed a wide-ranging deal with Trancas to develop and […]

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‘Venom’ (2005): ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Director’s Forgotten Slasher [Young Blood]

Venom was an unprecedented move for video-game adaptations when Dimension Films acquired rights to an unproduced game in 2003. Developers Flint Dille and John Zuur Platten said their concept for Backwater was “ready-made to become a horror film as well as a game,” and players were positioned to be “the prey of a modern-day boogieman” […]

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