Neon and Waypoint Entertainment’s Cweature Features have come on board Hokum, starring Adam Scott. Damian McCarthy is writng and directing. Neon will release the film theatrically in the US in 2026. Neon International will represent the foreign sales rights and introduce the film next week at TIFF.
Cweature Features board as co-producers on the project joining Image Nation and Spooky Pictures, as well as Team Thrives, who co-financed the project. The film is currently in post production. Peter Coonan and David Wilmot join Scott along with Florence Ordesh, Will O’Connell, and Michael Patric. Siox C, Brendan Conroy, Austin Amelio, and Ezra Carlisle round out the cast.
The film follows reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott), who retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes but the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
The pic follows McCarthy’s feature debut Oddity, which premiered at SXSW and won the Audience Award in the Midnighter Section.
As previously announced, Hokum is the latest collaboration between Image Nation and Spooky Pictures following Charlie Polinger’s lauded feature The Plague which debuted in Cannes, last year’s hit Late Night With the Devil and the critically acclaimed thriller Watcher, directed by Chloe Okuno and starring Maika Monroe. The project is the sixth in the current Image Nation/Spooky Pictures slate following the announcement of Bryan Edward Hills’ Archangel starring Connor Leslie and Randall Okita’s Menace starring Isabel May, which was acquired by IFC/Shudder at Cannes last year.
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