{"id":217959,"date":"2025-10-16T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:52:08","slug":"paramount-reups-horror-film-deal-walter-hamada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217959\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Reups Horror Film Deal Walter Hamada\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paramount-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-pictures_1\" data-tag=\"paramount-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Pictures<\/a> has renewed its exclusive, multiyear production deal with Walter\u00a0Hamada and his 18Hz Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUnder the deal,\u00a0Hamada, a former DC Films head, will continue to focus on the genre pic with low- to mid-size budgets for theatrical and streaming. His producing credits include\u00a0The Conjuring\u00a0franchise and\u00a0The Batman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 2023, Hamada started out in producing after working in the studio trenches for Warner Bros. and New Line, where he oversaw the making of movies such as\u00a0It\u00a0and\u00a0Aquaman. He signed an initial exclusive, multiyear production deal at the time with Paramount to spearhead the studio\u2019s mainstream horror movies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe goal was to release several low- to mid-budget films annually across theatrical and streaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUpcoming 18Hz productions include Primate, directed by Johannes Roberts and set for a Jan. 9, 2026 release. The genre pic stars Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander and Troy Kotsur and centers on a group of friends on a tropical vacation that turns into a terrifying and primal tale of horror and survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 18Hz slate includes an untitled horror film from director\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Ovredal and starring Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo and has a script written by Zachary Donohue and T.W. Burgess; and director Caye Casas\u2019s Familiar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t18Hz is also at work on Suffer Little Children, from director and writer\u00a0Rodrigue Huart\u00a0and a\u00a0reimagining of the 1976 Spanish horror film\u00a0Who Can Kill a Child? Plot details\u00a0are under wraps, but the original film followed\u00a0a\u00a0couple who travels to\u00a0a\u00a0remote island\u00a0for a vacation, only to realize all the\u00a0adults on the island\u00a0have been killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures has renewed its exclusive, multiyear production deal with Walter\u00a0Hamada and his 18Hz Productions. Under the deal,\u00a0Hamada,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,8570],"class_list":{"0":"post-217959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-paramount-pictures"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}