{"id":577964,"date":"2026-04-02T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:16:11","slug":"nick-jonas-kathryn-newton-to-star-in-white-elephant-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577964\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Jonas & Kathryn Newton To Star In ‘White Elephant’ Horror Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas<\/a> (Power Ballad) and Kathryn Newton<\/a> (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) are set to star in MRC<\/a>\u2018s holiday horror flick White Elephant<\/a>, the first project under their partnership with Radio Silence<\/a> and Project X<\/a>, dubbed RSPX<\/a>, oriented around inventive and engaging horror and thriller projects.<\/p>\n

\n\tNewton reteams with Radio Silence and Project X after starring alongside Samara Weaving in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the sequel to their 2019 Searchlight horror film Ready or Not, which premiered at SXSW on May 13 and released in theaters the following week.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Clown in a Cornfield\u2019s Eli Craig<\/a>, from a script he wrote with JT Billings, White Elephant\u2019s logline is as follows: Eight friends. One prize. Zero trust. Their annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.<\/p>\n

\n\tMRC is the studio financing the film. Spencer Berman and Nick Jonas are producing for Powered By Jonas, along with William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt for Project X, Tyler Gillett, and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin. Exec producers are Billings, Ryan McDonough, Amanda Drake, Newton, Scott Levine, and Chad Villella. Production began this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Jonas premiered Power Ballad, a new musical dramedy where he stars opposite Paul Rudd, to critical acclaim at SXSW. Directed by Once and Sing Street\u2019s John Carney, the film releases via Lionsgate on June 5. In film, Jonas\u2019 other recent credits include You\u2019re Cordially Invited and The Good Half. This year, he\u2019ll also be seen starring alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart in the latest Jumanji film from Columbia Pictures. He is repped by UTA, Philymack, and Schreck Rose Dapello.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Ready or Not 2, Newton has recently been seen in films like Abigail, Lisa Frankenstein, and Griffin in Summer. At SXSW this year, she was also seen starring alongside Elizabeth Banks and Juliette Lewis in DreamQuil, a new thriller from Alex Prager. Upcoming projects include the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Samo Lives and Amazon MGM\u2019s thriller The Devil\u2019s Mouth. She is repped by Entertainment 360, WME, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest known for helming the cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, starring Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk, Craig is coming off Clown in a Cornfield, a slasher he directed and co-wrote that set an opening weekend record for IFC Films. He is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to Ready or Not 2, Radio Silence\u2019s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett rebooted the Scream franchise alongside Project X. Upcoming, they\u2019re set to reteam with the company on a new installment of The Mummy franchise, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, for Universal. They are repped by Brillstein, CAA, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.<\/p>\n

\n\tComing off a franchise record with Scream 7, the highest-grossing entry in Scream\u2018s 30-year history, which grossed over $204M worldwide, Project X is also known for Nuremberg, Fountain of Youth, Abigail and the hit Netflix series The Night Agent.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe studio behind the recently released Wuthering Heights, G20 and All of You, MRC\u2019s upcoming slate includes The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, The Gallerist, A Place in Hell, The Best is Yet To Come, Unabomber, and Eloise.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite Elephant\u2018s co-writer\/EP Billings is repped by Paradigm, Silver Mass Entertainment, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas (Power Ballad) and Kathryn Newton (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) are set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,221580,75,109574,60014,30703,221581,121337,221582,221583],"class_list":{"0":"post-577964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eli-craig","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kathryn-newton","14":"tag-mrc","15":"tag-nick-jonas","16":"tag-project-x","17":"tag-radio-silence","18":"tag-rspx","19":"tag-white-elephant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}