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They can’t all die first — right? Here is the first trailer for The Blackening, Tim Story’s horror comedy that debuted at the Toronto Film Festival. Have a look above at the clip set to Nas’ “Made You Look,” and the new poster is below. A Juneteenth getaway reunites a group of old friends in…

The Blackening, the MRC horror comedy that Lionsgate picked up out of TIFF’s Midnight Madness, is getting a June 16, 2023 release, which is Juneteenth weekend. The Blackening centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has won a bidding battle to acquire worldwide rights to MRC's The Blackening, the horror-comedy film that premiered in the Midnight Madness segment of last month’s Toronto Film Festival and emerged as one of the hottest acquisition titles. Deal calls for a wide theatrical…

EXCLUSIVE: After a weekend in which distributors launched a salvo of great films into awards season, what about the acquisitions market? Here’s one that ought to sale by today or tomorrow. Sources said that the MRC horror-comedy The Blackening has three offers on the table for world rights, encompassing both…

As soon as writer Tracy Oliver saw Dewayne Perkins’ Comedy Central short in 2018, she knew that she needed to collaborate with him and make The Blackening into a feature film. “I just really, really loved the concept of it,” says Oliver. “The short that I saw was all about who is the blackest, and whoever is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Story (Tom and Jerry, Universal’s Ride Along films) has wrapped principal photography on The Blackening, a horror-comedy he directed for MRC Film, which stars Dewayne Perkins (The Upshaws), Grace Byers (Amazon’s Harlem), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), Melvin Gregg (Nine Perfect Strangers), Jay…

EXCLUSIVE: MRC Film and The Story Company are developing The Blackening, a feature film adaptation of a Comedy Central digital short that lampooned horror film tropes with its tale of seven African-American friends trapped in a cabin with a homicidal maniac. Writers Tracy Oliver (Girl Trip, First Wives Club) and…