{"id":721940,"date":"2026-08-01T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721940\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:12:12","slug":"two-elm-street-reboots-are-in-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721940\/","title":{"rendered":"Two &#8220;Elm Street&#8221; Reboots Are In A Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/two-elm-street-reboots-are-in-a-race.jpg\" data-caption=\"New Line Cinema\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/two-elm-street-reboots-are-in-a-race.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"two-elm-street-reboots-are-in-a-race\"\/><\/a>New Line Cinema<\/p>\n<p>With the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery deal on pause, it seems both studios are set to become rivals over something unexpected \u2013 the \u201cA Nightmare on Elm Street\u201d franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month came the news that Paramount Pictures had closed a deal for a new take on the Wes Craven classic to be released via its new Paramount Primal genre label.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was made with Craven\u2019s estate for the U.S. rights to Craven\u2019s original screenplay for the 1984 first film, rights they reobtained under copyright law.  However, previous rights holder New Line Cinema (owned by Warner Bros. Discovery) retains the international rights.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/newsletter_content\/what-im-hearing-a-warnermount-split-baby-&amp;-wet-hot-spider-man-summer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puck News<\/a> reports that, according to sources, Warners is looking into making their own \u201cElm Street\u201d film and is in talks with Lee Cronin to produce, write, and direct.<\/p>\n<p>Their sources indicate Paramount expected that the deal would be closed in time that Warners would then have to release the Paramount version overseas.  But with the deal now on hold for almost a year, Warners seems to be moving fast on this.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re already one step ahead, locking down Cronin while Paramount has yet to set a filmmaker.  Paramount does have an ace up their sleeve \u2013 Craven\u2019s widow Iya Labunka, and son Jonathan Craven are producing alongside Marc Toberoff and \u201cBarbarian\u201d duo J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>Warners reportedly did approach the Craven estate about their project, but the studio wasn\u2019t going to agree on a \u201cvery aggressive back-end split with the rights holders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Warners, however, does have some advantages.  Paramount\u2019s deal essentially confines that film to only the contents of the first film, can only be released in the United States, and can\u2019t exploit any merchandise.  Warners has no such restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it\u2019s a race.  May the best Krueger win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Line Cinema With the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery deal on pause, it seems both studios are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721940","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=721940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}