UPDATED 4/04/2020 — Universal Pictures and MGM Moves Release Date to Sept 25, 2020 Due to the Corona Virus Pandemic

Universal Pictures Presents

CANDYMAN

Releases SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Don’t say his name.

Director/writer Nia DaCosta and writer/producers Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld return us to the now-gentrified Cabrini Green neighborhood where the legend began. In this terrifying new chapter, dare to say his name…Candyman, Candyman, Candyman…

Editor’s Note: Universal Pictures and MGM move the release date of CANDYMAN from June 12, 2020 to SEPTEMBER 25, 2020. Currently set for ‘in theaters,’ time will tell if it will have a traditional theatrical release or move to a online/digital release.

——— Original Post Feb. 27, 2020 ———-

Universal Pictures presents, from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld’s Monkeypaw Productions, in association with BRON Creative, Candyman.

Oscar^® winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman. Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directs this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic.

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror.

In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us, Aquaman) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.

CANDYMAN Official Trailer

Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo

Director: Nia DaCosta

Screenplay by: Jordan Peele & Win Rosenfeld and Nia DaCosta

Producers: Ian Cooper, Win Rosenfeld, Jordan Peele

Executive Producer: David Kern, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth

Rating: This film is not rated yet.

Candyman is directed by DaCosta, and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us), Rosenfeld and Peele. The screenplay is by Peele & Rosenfeld and DaCosta. The film is based on the 1992 film Candyman, written by Bernard Rose, and the short story “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker. The film’s executive producers are David Kern, Aaron L. Gilbert and Jason Cloth.

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