The new David Ellison owned Paramount Pictures is continuing business with genre producer Walter Hamada , renewing him and his 18Hz Productions with an exclusive, multi-year production deal.

Hamada, who produced New Line’s second highest grossing horror film series, Stephen King’s It ($1.18 billion global) and Matt Reeves’ The Batman at DC ($772.3M), will continue to develop and deliver horror pics in the low-to-mid budget range annually. Hamada first inked a deal with the Melrose lot in November 2022 following his run at Warner Bros as the DC Films Boss and as a New Line Production EVP.

Hamada’s slate at Paramount includes the upcoming Primate, out Jan. 9, with a new trailer that dropped today. Johannes Roberts directs off a script he wrote with Ernest Riera. In the pic, a g

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