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Joe Swanberg Producing a Slate of Five Horror Films for Yale Entertainment

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Joe Swanberg (V/H/S, Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas) and Yale Entertainment have wrapped production on five upcoming horror movies, Deadline reports this week.

Deadline details, “Swanberg’s slate of horror films with Yale Entertainment was inspired by the producing exploits of Roger Corman.” The lineup includes the following projects:

  • Helldorado
  • Kenneled
  • Yellow Eyes
  • Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round
  • Untitled Jae Matthews Project

Swanberg said in a statement, “I was very lucky to team with Yale Entertainment, who understood the model and were excited to try the most ambitious version of producing five features back-to-back. Using my resources from 20 years in Chicago, combined with support from the great team at Yale and my co-producer Ben Gojer, we have brought five incredible projects to life, each led by exciting early career filmmakers with huge futures.”

Here’s everything you need to know about each of the five movies…

“Written and directed by Kansas Bowling (Cuddly Toys), Helldorado watches as Queho, a Native American serial killer with a checkered past, takes out the people of a struggling mining town in the stark deserts of Nevada one by one, with the town Deputy right on his tail.

“Written by H.K. Moore and directed by Jay Burleson (The Nobodies), Kenneled follows a destitute dog walker who finds a wealthy client who saves him from financial ruin. But this is no ordinary dog.

“Written by Mickey Solis and directed by Jesse Korman, Yellow Eyes watches as a young couple inherits a house containing a mysterious relic that hosts the spirit of a powerful demon, and the wife of the man it possesses must find an exorcist to save him.

“Directed by Aidan Leary from his script written with C.R. Thompson, in his feature debut, Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round watches as a children’s TV show host, ensnared in a case of amnesia, must confront his missing memories as his puppet co-stars turn on him.

“In the untitled feature written and directed by Jae Matthews, a young woman will do anything to avoid her ex at a secluded house party. But a supernatural virus passing through the partygoers may take care of him for her.”

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Legacy Sequel Will NOT Erase the Events of ‘I Still Know’

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Filming is getting underway this year on director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, a sequel to the 1997 slasher movie that will reportedly feature fresh faces alongside legacy characters. But will the new movie pull a Halloween 2018 and effectively erase the events of the slasher movie’s two sequels from this particular timeline?

Rumors and reports over the weekend indicated that I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 will indeed operate only as a sequel to the ’97 movie, but Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has taken to social media this week to let us know that those rumors are very much untrue.

Kaytin Robinson tweets, “ISKWYDLS is canon.” She’s of course referring to 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, the original sequel to the 1997 slasher movie.

That movie was followed by I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer in 2006, but it’s probably safe to say the events of that movie won’t be referenced in the 2025 reboot.

Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”) and Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) are in talks to lead Sony’s reboot alongside Sarah Pidgeon (“Gotham”), Tyriq Withers (“Atlanta”) and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid). Last we heard, both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. were also in negotiations to potentially star alongside the fresh new faces.

The franchise will return to theaters on July 18, 2025.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) is on board to direct the new installment in the franchise for Sony, with Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.) writing the original draft of the screenplay. The latest draft, however, was written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson & Sam Lansky.

Jim Gillespie directed the original I Know What You Did Last Summer back in 1997, written by Kevin Williamson (Scream) and based on Lois Duncan’s novel. The film spawned sequels in 1998 and 2006. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. only came back for that first sequel.

More recently, the franchise returned with Amazon’s short-lived television series.

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