Jacob Chase: Last News

The new supernatural drama The Girl In The Woods is now streaming exclusively on Peacock and the perfect 30-minute eight-episode binge just in time for Halloween.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Peacock has ordered an eight-episode supernatural drama based on “The Door in The Woods” and “The Girl in the Woods.”“Jessica Jones” lead Krysten Ritter is slated to direct the first four episodes (including the pilot) of the NBCUniversal streaming platform’s forthcoming adaptation of Crypt TV’s “Girl In The Woods” movies. Ritter will also co-executive produce.

Focus Features' neo-Western drama Let Him Go, starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as grieving parents, topped the election week box office with a reported $4.1M.Thomas Bezucha's violent adaptation of Larry Watson's 2013 novel centers on a retired sheriff and his wife rescuing their young grandson and daughter-in-law from a dangerous family.The Focus Features flick - also starring Lesley Manville - currently holds a 75% critic approval rating (out of 108 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.

Steven Spielberg recommended young Marriage Story actor Azhy Robertson for new horror film Come Play, because he thought the kid could play an authentic non-verbal character.Director Jacob Chase turned to his producer as he was casting the role of Oliver in the film and asked if he knew of any child actor who could pull off the challenging role – and the legendary director knew just the boy.Chase cast Robertson after Spielberg introduced him at an audition and the filmmaker tasked the kid with studying up on the role by spending time with children who are on the spectrum and studying for the role by watching classic horror tale Poltergeist with his father.The youngster also worked with movement and speech coaches to ensure accuracy in his

Focus Features and Amblin's Halloween offeringCome Play filled its trick-or-treat bag with $3.2 million in domestic grosses, easily enough to top another hollow weekend at the box office amid the ongoing pandemic. Opening in 2,183 theaters, the horror-thriller came in ahead of expectations and jumped 18 percent from Friday to Saturday (Halloween).

There's a fertile history of technology as a conduit for evil in horror, notably in films like Poltergeist and The Ring. Those predecessors are among the more obvious influences of writer-director Jacob Chase's gripping family-in-peril chiller, Come Play, expanded with great assurance in both craft and storytelling from his imaginative 5-minute short, Larry.

Gillian Jacobs and John Gallagher Jr. play parents fighting their son’s demon in the new horror “Come Play”.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Miranda July's heist comedy Kajillionaire will be released in theaters in June, while the upcoming horror pic Come Play will hit the big screen in July, Focus Features said Tuesday. Kajillionaire, which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins and Gina Rodriguez, is set to open June 19 in North America.