{"id":256885,"date":"2025-10-28T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256885\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:05:09","slug":"the-monster-mash-song-is-being-turned-into-miramax-animated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256885\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Monster Mash’ Song Is Being Turned Into Miramax Animated Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The 1962 song \u201cMonster Mash<\/a>,\u201d which has become an annual Halloween +hit, is becoming an animated movie at Miramax<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMiramax CEO Jonathan Glickman, who has been behind such haunted hits as Netflix\u2019s second most watched series Wednesday, and The Addams Family animated movies at MGM, has optioned the rights from Reservoir and Capizzi Music Co.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPerformed by Bobby \u201cBoris\u201d Pickett, who co-wrote it with Lenny Capizzi, the song has been ranked by Billboard as the \u201cBiggest Halloween Song of All Time.\u201d \u201cMonster Mash\u201d continually has re-emerged on the charts during the holiday season over the decades, and it\u2019s been streamed more than 500 million times worldwide with reported annual $1 million royalties. Pickett told Billboard that he penned the ditty in less than two hours with Capizzi, and the song was recorded in one take, produced by Gary S. Paxton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its lyrics, \u201cMonster Mash\u201c lends itself to a movie: The tune is sung in the first-person by a mad scientist whose monster, late one evening, rises from his slab to perform a new dance, inspired the early-\u201960s dance craze the Mashed Potato. The new dance becomes \u201cthe hit of the land\u201d when the scientist throws a party for other monsters, those guests including Wolfman,\u00a0Igor,\u00a0Mummy,\u00a0vocal group The Crypt-Kicker Five, Dracula and his son.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo more than now is there a need for more spooky family movies at the box office: In years past, there\u2019s been several hits including The Addams Family, Sony\u2019s Hotel Transylvania animated franchise as well as Goosebumps. The hope is that Monster Mash catches on in a flash with moviegoers. <\/p>\n

\n\tReservoir is an independent, publicly traded music company. In addition to Monster Mash, the company represents Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Snoop Dogg, Hans Zimmer and many more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSaid Glickman: \u201cFor more than 60 years, nothing has said Halloween quite like the \u2018Monster Mash.\u2019 We\u2019re thrilled to be entrusted by the Pickett and Capizzi families and to be partnering with Reservoir Media to bring this iconic song to life as an animated musical for all audiences. It\u2019s a project that celebrates the fun and spirit of the original \u2014 and should become a perennial \u2018graveyard smash\u2019 for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to a recent UCLA study, Gen Z shows a growing interest in animation, with numbers rising from 42% last year to almost 49% this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMiramax recently released the Derek Cianfrance-directed Roofman starring Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst and Peter Dinklage. It also had the fourth installment of the Bridget Jones franchise and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which grossed $130 million internationally, and currently is in production on the sequel to the hit film The Beekeeper (which grossed more than $160 million worldwide) with Jason Statham and Timo Tjahjanto directing. On the TV side, the studio is behind the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated The Gentleman at Netflix, which recently wrapped production on Season 2. <\/p>\n

Miramax also acquired Glickman\u2019s Panoramic\u2019s position in the hit show Zero Day with Robert De Niro, which topped Netflix\u2019s Most-Watched TV list, as well as the Jenna Ortega-led comedy Wednesday, which holds the record for most hours viewed in its first week for an English-language series on Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tUpcoming Miramax projects include the next installment in the Scary Movie franchise, set to premiere summer 2026, distributed globally by Paramount Pictures, with Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans writing and producing; Colman Domingo\u2019s directorial debut Scandalous!, starring Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson; and The Faculty remake, being written by breakout talent Drew Hancock.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The 1962 song \u201cMonster Mash,\u201d which has become an annual Halloween +hit, is becoming an animated movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,139113,139114,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-256885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-miramax","10":"tag-monster-mash","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}