HalloweenMovies™ | The Official Halloween Website

TIFF

‘Rewind’ to ‘18: Green, McBride & Curtis Talk Halloween with MTV

by

In our latest ‘Rewind,’ we flash back to September 9, 2018, with an interview with Halloween (2018) writer and director David Gordon Green, co-writer Danny McBride and star and executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis, conducted by MTV’s Josh Horowitz.

Filmed just prior to the release of Halloween (2018) at the Toronto International Film Festival, the video features director Green’s thoughts on and personal trepidation surrounding the tackling of such “sacred” terrain, Lee’s reminiscing on her “scream queen” legacy (itself established by her breakout role in John Carpenter’s immortal 1978 classic Halloween), and McBride and company’s creative approach to the material, itself stemming from their lifelong, personal fandom of the Halloween film franchise.

Check it out below.  

Halloween to World Premiere at TIFF 18

by

Ahead of its October 19, 2018 release via Universal Pictures, writer and director David Gordon Green’s hotly-anticipated Halloween is set for its world premiere this September as a Midnight Madness selection of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, which runs September 6 – 16.

“This year’s Midnight Madness slate promises another idiosyncratic confluence of established and emerging genre filmmakers,” Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky said of the selection in a press statement. “To complement some of the buzziest provocations on the festival circuit, I have sought to curate an eccentric array of World Premieres that demonstrate the dexterity of genre cinema as a canvas for both sublime satisfaction and stunning subversion. That includes – Halloween – which boldly and brilliantly builds upon its mythic iconography to thrilling and surprising effect.”

While the premiere date and time have not yet been revealed, tickets for TIFF 18 are currently available here.

Co-written by Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride, 2018’s Halloween, the latest entry in the iconic horror franchise, is intended as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s seminal 1978 film. Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block produce, with McBride, Green and returning star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and series originator Carpenter, who also serves as the film’s composer.