{"id":67267,"date":"2025-08-14T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67267\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:54:08","slug":"dakota-fanning-movie-to-hit-paramount-after-losing-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67267\/","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\tThe decision to debut Vicious on the streamer was made by the previous Paramount regime, prior to its recent Skydance merger<\/a>, with the aim of giving viewers an at-home 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":67268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26737,96,35286,35287,2839,3770,25963,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-67267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dakota-fanning","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fantastic-fest","11":"tag-halloween","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-paramount","14":"tag-paramount-pictures","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}