{"id":68301,"date":"2025-08-14T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:41:08","slug":"dakota-fanning-movie-to-hit-paramount-after-losing-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68301\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Fanning Movie to Hit Paramount+ After Losing Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Dakota Fanning<\/a>-led horror movie Vicious is set to debut via streaming later this year after it was previously removed from Paramount Pictures<\/a>\u2018 theatrical release calendar. <\/p>\n

\n\tWriter-director Bryan Bertino\u2019s feature will premiere at Fantastic Fest<\/a> in Austin next month before its release on Paramount+<\/a> and digital formats Oct. 10. Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott and Emily Mitchell round out the cast. <\/p>\n

\n\tVicious centers on Polly (Fanning), who receives a gift from a late-night visitor and becomes trapped in a world where reality is not what it seems.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film had initially been scheduled to hit theaters in August<\/a> of this year, before its theatrical release was moved up to Feb. 28, 2025. Late last year, the studio took the project off of its calendar amid a search for a better date for the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther features that were announced Thursday as set to premiere at Fantastic Fest include Paramount\u2019s Primate, Sony\u2019s Sisu: Road to Revenge, Universal\u2019s Black Phone 2 and Lionsgate\u2019s The Strangers \u2014 Chapter 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tA movie shifting its release from theatrical to a purely streaming launch has become less trendy in Hollywood of late, as studios have benefited from the attention that a project can get from hitting theaters. For example, Universal\u2019s video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s was released day-and-date on Peacock and in theaters in 2023, while the forthcoming sequel will debut exclusively in theaters later this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCindy Holland, the new head of Paramount+ amid the recent Paramount-Skydance merger, confirmed at a media event Wednesday<\/a> that streaming movies \u201care not a priority\u201d for the company moving forward. The decision to debut Vicious on the streamer was made by the previous Paramount regime with the aim of giving viewers a fresh option ahead of Halloween<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tFanning\u2019s recent credits include such features as The Watchers and The Equalizer 3, along with the series Ripley and The Perfect Couple. <\/p>\n

\n\tBertino is known for writing and directing the 2008 horror film The Strangers, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dakota Fanning-led horror movie Vicious is set to debut via streaming later this year after it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,54160,134,54161,54162,344,8570,14627],"class_list":["post-68301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dakota-fanning","tag-entertainment","tag-fantastic-fest","tag-halloween","tag-movies","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68301","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=68301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}