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Jamie Lee Curtis is the Ultimate Horror Heroine on EW’s Halloween Cover

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“The Best HALLOWEEN Ever!” top lines this Friday’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Hitting new stands tomorrow, Entertainment Weekly and photographer Art Streiber dive deep into director and co-writer David Gordon Green’s upcoming film Halloween, which is set for release by Universal Pictures this coming October 19th, 2018, in a wonderful celebration of not only it, but of the series itself, with particular attention paid to the grande dame of final girls, Jamie Lee Curtis.

Said Curtis today via her personal Twitter of the above photo shot by Streiber and contained within the spread, “In all my years playing Laurie Strode & representing the Halloween movies there has never been an image that captured the journey better than this. My gratitude to @EW & Art Streiber, Michele Romero, Victoria Wood & the teams at the magazine & @halloweenmovie for this moment.”

Containing interviews with Curtis, Green, co-writer and executive producer Danny McBride, series originator and composer John Carpenter and The Shape himself (actor and filmmaker Nick Castle), all which stem from eight months of journalism (EW began their coverage of the film during principal photography earlier this year in Charleston, South Carolina), you can check out a teaser here of an issue that’s a ‘must have’ for fans of the series.

Additonally co-written by Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride, Green’s Halloween serves as the eleventh entry in the franchise and is intended as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s seminal 1978 film of the same name. Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad and Bill Block additionally produce, with McBride, Green and returning star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Trancas’ Ryan Freimann.

Check out the trailer below.

Halloween Has Premiered at TIFF and the Critics are Raving

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Ahead of its October 2018 release via Universal Pictures, director and co-writer David Gordon Green’s Halloween held its world premiere to a packed house this past Saturday, September 9th at Toronto International Film Festival, and the critical response has been overwhelming.

Says Variety’s Peter Debruge, “Why choose when you can have tricks and treats? David Gordon Green does horror fans a favor, bringing Michael Myers’ slasher-movie saga back to its roots,” while Katie Walsh of Nerdist proclaims: “David Gordon Green delivers the best Halloween sequel ever.”

That’s not all.  Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly  states, “Long live Michael Myers, so maybe someone can finally kill him — in a big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings it all back to John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 original,” Dreadcentral’s Jonathan Barkan muses, “After years of waiting for a Halloween sequel that felt like it did justice to John Carpenter’s original masterpiece of slasher horror, David Gordon Green has brought us a vision of terror that gives fans what they’ve been craving,” and originating filmmaker Carpenter himself has declared that following his 1978 original, Green’s is the best in the franchise.

Perhaps some of the TIFF audience agreed, as following the screening, Jamie Lee Curtis and assembled cast and crew took the stage to an enthusiastic standing ovation, to which Curtis playfully said, “Happy Halloween, mother*ckers.”

The eleventh film in the franchise and co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is intended as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s ‘78 film, and thusly disregards all of the series subsequent entries. Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block produce, with McBride, Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and series originator Carpenter, who also serves as the film’s composer.

Looking forward to October 19th? We are.