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Earlier this week, Isa Briones and AnnaSophia Robb joined the cast of All Nighter- the new play written by Natalie Margolin and directed by Jaki Bradley. "I think this play feels like such a truthful depiction of that time in your life when your friends are your everything," Briones told BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge. "You don't quite have a sense of self yet, but you know where you belong in a group- how important that is. And that cocoon breaking and being like, 'I think it's time to be my own person now.' How scary that is!" It’s finals week at a small liberal arts college in rural Pennsylvania. A tight-knit group of roommates pull one last all-nighter to complete their final assignments. Holed up...

The new Off-Broadway play All Nighter is now open and plenty of stars stepped out to support the cast on opening night!

The show’s lead producer Ben Platt was joined by husband Noah Galvin and best friend Beanie Feldstein on the red carpet on opening night on Sunday night (March 9) at The Newman Mills Theater in The Robert W. Wilson McC Theater Space in New York City.

Cast members Kristine Froseth, Kathryn Gallagher, Julia Lester, Havana Rose Liu, and Alyah Chanelle Scott, plus understudies Tessa Albertson and Olivia Puckett also posed on the carpet.

All Nighter, written by Natalie Margolin and directed by Jaki Bradley, is playing a limited 12-week run through May 18. Here’s the synopsis: “It’s finals week at a small liberal arts college in rural Pennsylvania. A tight-knit group of roommates pull one last all-nighter to complete their final assignments. Holed up in an old ballroom,...

The One, an upcoming horror movie from Hanway Film, has secured its lead stars. THR reports that Melissa Barrera, who recently reprised her Scream role in Scream VI, has taken one of the lead roles in The One alongside Renfield star Nicholas Hoult. Also starring in the movie will be Lana Condor (To All the Boys I've Loved Before). Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley will write and direct the film. Hoult is serving as a producer on the project as well alongside Whitaker Lader under their Dead Duck Films banner. Also producing are Riley Keough and Gina Gammell for Felix Culpa.

“We’ve been dreaming up this project for years, and are thrilled to now bring it to life with our actual dream team,” Armento and Bradley said in a statement. “Nick, Melissa, Riley, and Lana are some of the most exciting talents around, and their passion for this film...

While US reality dating staple The Bachelor remains powerful, its cultural impact has been somewhat diluted by the tide of even more intense romantic entanglement series including Love Island and Love Is Blind. Still, from the sounds of it, new film The One will be drawn from the roses-n-rancour reality series. And now Melissa Barrera, Nicholas Hoult and Lana Condor will be looking for love in the story.

The film follows Taylor (Barrera), who’s made a last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show. Now down to just herself and two other women competing to win the heart of Mason (Hoult), Taylor begins to feel the artifice of the show fade, and the game becomes terrifyingly real. Amidst the opulent beachfront setting, fairy-tale dates, and ever-flowing champagne, pursuit turns into obsession and rivalry turns into treachery as reality itself blurs.

Writer-director team Kevin Armento...

Melissa Barrera of Scream (2022) and Scream VI has signed on to star in the horror film The One alongside Nicholas Hoult of The Menu and Renfield. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The One is described as being an “erotic nightmare”.

Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley will be directing The One from a screenplay they wrote together, and while this will mark the feature directorial debut of Armento, Bradley previously directed the 2019 thriller Last Ferry and the 2021 “podcast movie” Treat. The story Armento and Bradley have crafted for The One centers on Taylor (Barrera), who makes a last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show. Now down to just herself and two other women competing to win the heart of Mason (Hoult), Taylor begins to feel the artifice of the show fade, and the game becomes terrifyingly real. Amidst the opulent beachfront setting, fairytale dates and ever-flowing champagne,...

The stars of Scream VI and Renfield, Melissa Barrera and Nicholas Hoult have signed on to star in The One, an upcoming horror movie centered on a reality dating show.

THR reports this morning that Riley Keough is producing the feature film, which will be written and directed by Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley.

The One is said to be a “nightmarish horror about the romantic and psychological warfare waged by our beloved popular entertainment.”

“The One follows Taylor (Barrera), who makes a last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show. Now down to just herself and two other women competing to win the heart of Mason (Hoult), Taylor begins to feel the artifice of the show fade, and the game becomes terrifyingly real.

“Amidst the opulent beachfront setting, fairytale dates and ever-flowing champagne, pursuit turns into obsession and rivalry turns into treachery as reality itself blurs.

HanWay Films has boarded The One, an erotic thriller starring Melissa Barrera and Nicholas Hoult and will launch sales at the Cannes Film Festival.

The project comes from writer-director team Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley and is billed as “a nightmarish horror about the romantic and psychological warfare waged by our beloved popular entertainment — and also begs the question… are we, the viewers, complicit?”

Barrera, who’s coming off box office horror hit Scream VI, leads the cast opposite the Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated Hoult. Barrera plays Taylor, whose last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show begins to feel terrifyingly real as she becomes a finalist. Amidst an opulent beachfront setting, fairy-tale dates and champagne, “pursuit turns into obsession and rivalry turns into treachery as reality itself blurs.”

HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales, with WME Independent and UTA co-repping the film for North America.

Melissa Barrera, star of the hugely successful recent Scream reboot, is set to lead the cast of The One, described as an “erotic nightmare” set within the confines on the reality dating show, which Riley Keough is set to produce.

The film, from writer-director duo Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley, will see Barrera (whose upcoming projects also include Your Monster and The Collaboration) star alongside Nicholas Hoult (The Great, upcoming Nosferatu for Robert Eggers and Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2) and Lana Condor (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken).

The One follows Taylor (Barrera), who makes a last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show. Now down to just herself and two other women competing to win the heart of Mason (Hoult), Taylor begins to feel the artifice of the show fade, and the game becomes terrifyingly real. Amidst the opulent beachfront setting,...

Melissa Barrera (“Scream VI”), Nicholas Hoult (“The Menu”) and Lana Condor (“Moonshot”) headline the cast of “The One,” from writer-director team Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley.

HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales, and will launch the film at the Cannes film market, with WME Independent and UTA co-repping the film for North America.

“The One” follows Taylor (Barrera), who’s made a last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show. Now down to just herself and two other women competing to win the heart of Mason (Hoult), Taylor begins to feel the artifice of the show fade, and the game becomes terrifyingly real. Amidst the opulent beachfront setting, fairy-tale dates, and ever-flowing champagne, pursuit turns into obsession and rivalry turns into treachery as reality itself blurs.

Hoult also produces alongside Whitaker Lader via their production company Dead Duck Films, which has a first-look TV...

WME Independent and UTA co-rep for North America.

UK sales outfit HanWay has boarded erotic horror The One, from US writer-director team Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley, with the film set in the confines of a reality TV dating show.

HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales, which it will launch at Cannes this month, with WME Independent and UTA co-repping the film for North America.

The cast is led by Scream VI’s Melissa Barrera, alongside Lana Condor and Nicholas Hoult. Hoult also produces alongside Whitaker Lader via their production company Dead Duck Films which has a first-look TV deal...

Exclusive: Paramount’s genre division Paramount Players has tapped Night Teeth and I See You filmmaker Adam Randall to direct the horror pic Curfew.

The former Blood List entry follows a rebellious teenage girl who is sent to stay with her grandmother in a sleepy town whose quirky traditions include a curfew banning anyone from going out at night. When the girl ventures out after dark she discovers the murky truth behind the town’s mysterious history.

Randall told us: “This is a fun monster movie that harks back to Amblin movies of yore. There is an intriguing conflict between the teenage girl and the older generations but it also has the thrills and action of a monster movie. It’s a great script.”

Script comes from Isa Mazzei (Cam). Jaki Bradley and Kevin Armento did previous revisions. Dick Grunert wrote the original spec that made it onto the 2017 Blood List.

The Blood List, an annual survey of Hollywood’s best unproduced horror scripts, has anointed a class of 2019 which includes an Olivia Wilde project, an extreme bodybuilding misadventure and a sinister trip to a luxury spa.

Now in its eleventh year, the list was created by Brillstein Partners manager and producer Kailey Marsh (Hulu’s “Light as a Feather”). Over 50 film and TV executives at the story editor level and above voted on this year’s crop of scripts, a mix of both features and pilots, in horror and subgenres like thriller, sci-fi and dark comedy. The report also offers a user-submitted list called “Fresh Blood,” which saw 513 entrants on the Blood List site.

The most high profile of the projects is “Don’t Worry Darling,” set up at New Line with Wilde (“Booksmart”) taking the lead in front of and behind the camera. Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke...

Olivia Wilde’s next directorial project “Don’t Worry, Darling,” written by Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke, and the Eli Roth-produced “10/31” are among those unproduced scripts selected for the 2019 BloodList.

Also on the list is bodybuilding thriller “Apex” and time-traveling sci-fi film “The Traveler” by Austin Everett.

The BloodList is an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays and pilots of the year. It was created in 2009 by Kailey Marsh, who is a manager and producer at Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Also Read: Joe Russo, Bryce McGuire Scripts Selected for 2018 BloodList

According to Studio System, 25% of the scripts that have been featured on the BloodList have gone on to be produced. Previous scripts that were featured on the BloodList include “Arrival,” “Birdbox,” “The Shallows,” “The Voices” and most recently, Sundance film “The Other Lamb” and Fantastic Fest’s “We Summon the Darkness.”

This year’s list also includes...

A new musical by the Tony-winning duo behind “Spring Awakening,” Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and another by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown are on tap for the 2018 season of Powerhouse, the theater development program presented annually by Vassar and New York Stage and Film.

Powerhouse has played a role in the development of a number of notable stage titles in recent years, including “Hamilton,” “The Humans” and Off Broadway breakout “The Wolves.” “Head Over Heels,” the Go-Go’s musical that just opened in San Francisco ahead of a Broadway run this summer, was also among the works developed at Powerhouse.

Running June 22-July 29 at the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Powerhouse has a slate that includes two mainstage productions, four musical workshop presentations, two “Inside Look” workshops and a number readings of new works by playwrights including Halley Feiffer.

The musical workshop slate includes:

“Alice by Heart...