{"id":443695,"date":"2026-05-11T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:52:07","slug":"black-bear-boards-horror-title-white-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443695\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Boards Horror Title \u2018White Elephant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/black-bear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-bear\" data-tag=\"black-bear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Bear<\/a> is handling international sales on the horror title <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/white-elephant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_white-elephant\" data-tag=\"white-elephant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Elephant<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cannes-market\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes-market\" data-tag=\"cannes-market\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes market<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film features a robust ensemble including <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nick-jonas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nick-jonas\" data-tag=\"nick-jonas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Jonas<\/a> (Jumanji), Kathryn Newton (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come), KJ Apa (Riverdale), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie), Ashley Park (Emily in Paris), Justice Smith (Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t), Josh Brener (Silicon Valley) and Madeleine Arthur (To All the Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before trilogy).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) directed the movie based on a script from JT Billings (Are You Afraid of the Dark?), with additional writing from Craig. The plot is said to follow eight friends competing for a prize when their annual holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of carnage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMRC is the studio financing the film. William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt will produce for Project X Entertainment (Scream); Spencer Berman and Jonas for Powered by Jonas; along with Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin for Radio Silence (Ready or Not). The executive producers are Billings, Ryan McDonough, Amanda Drake, Newton, Scott Levine and Chad Villella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is the first project under MRC\u2019s venture RSPX, a partnership with Radio Silence and Project X focused on horror and thriller genre projects. Black Bear will represent international sales, with MRC handling domestic rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear is handling international sales on the horror title White Elephant at the Cannes market.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32404,180878,93,61,60,270,12072,171430],"class_list":["post-443695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-black-bear","tag-cannes-market","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-nick-jonas","tag-white-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}