As Candyman fans mourn the death of scream king Tony Todd, his co-star Virginia Madsen addressed the horror hive. Shortly after Deadline reported that Todd died at age 69, the Oscar nominee reacted to his passing with an impromptu video statement she shared on Friday with her Instagram…

Tony Todd, an actor who played the killer in Candyman and appeared in the Final Destination franchise and Platoon among more than 240 film and TV credits spanning 40 years, died November 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 69. His reps confirmed the news to Deadline but did not provide a cause of…

EXCLUSIVE: Candyman star Tony Todd wants the world to know he’s not retiring. Not only is he too busy working on a multitude of projects at any given time, but he also wants to spend more time with his growing family and supporting up-and-coming Black talent like writer Bill Posley. The pair recently collaborated on…

It's not quite the actual Avengers, but the sheer power of the talent assembled on the Hero Nation podcast this past year has pretty damn close. Which is why you have to listen in on some of our genre greatest hits with The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang, What If… executive producer A.C. Bradley and No Time to Die…

With the $20.4M opening of Universal/MGM/Monkeypaw’s Candyman, director Nia DaCosta becomes the first Black female director to debut a movie in the No. 1 weekend spot at the domestic box office. At the same time, Candyman marks the second-highest grossing 3-day domestic weekend B.O. opening for a Black female director…

UPDATE, writethru: One of the only Hollywood titles to recently be granted a China release date, Disney/20th Century Studios' Free Guy flew into the market with a No. 1 $23.9M start. This is a solid launch in the Middle Kingdom, particularly in the current climate, and helped push the Ryan Reynolds-starrer past $100M…

Sunday AM Update: At a time when Covid-19 cases are +20% in the U.S. to 156K over two weeks, and Hurricane Ida is expected to hit the Gulf Coast today, Universal/MGM/Monkeypaw’s Candyman is prevailing with a great late August start of $22.4M. Also, another encouraging sign for the box office, especially on a horror…

With a strong $1.9 million box office on Thursday night for Candyman, things are looking pretty sweet today for Colman Domingo.  The Fear the Walking Dead vet joins us for our Hero Nation podcast to discuss the new horror movie executive produced by Jordan Peele, the issues it raises and the places the Nia…

Although it didn’t enjoy the cinematic lasting power of the endless iterations of the likes of Michael Myers, Jason or Freddy to name three horror icons, the 1990s boogeyman Candyman produced a cult following and sleeper status all its own. Now it is getting a new chance at cinematic mortality with what is essentially…

After taking the film off the Calendar, Universal and MGM have pushed the new reimagining of the horror classic Candyman to Aug. 27, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was forced to move off its previous June 2020 release date like so many other films that have pushed to 2021. Nia DaCosta directs the fresh…

Word was leaking that more wide-release date changes were afoot in the wake of Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman 1984 postponing from October 2 to Christmas Day. Here’s one that went down Friday: Universal/MGM/Bron/Monkeypaw’s Candyman is moving from its October 16 date to an unset future date in 2021. All studio partners are…

Watch teaser for Halloween Kills below: Universal is moving a group of Blumhouse titles deeper into the theatrical release calendar including Miramax-Trancas International co-productions Halloween Kills and its sequel Halloween Ends, and The Forever Purge. In addition, MGM-Bron Creative-Monkeypaw’s Candyman is moving…