Los Angeles-based style label Spooky Pictures, Abu Dhabi-based studio Picture Nation and L.A. and UAE-based manufacturing firm Longevity Pictures have secured a financing cope with distinguished European manufacturing/distribution banner Studiocanal — via its in-house style label Sixth Dimension — for his or her upcoming horror thriller “Home Safety Hotline.”
“Home Safety Hotline,” which is about to start out manufacturing in South Africa in early 2027, relies on Night time Sign Leisure’s critically acclaimed puzzle online game of the identical title. Durban-born Michael Matthews (“Love and Monsters”) (pictured above) will direct from a screenplay written by Nick Tassoni (“Lure”). The movie is being produced by Steven Schneider (“Late Night With the Devil”) for Spooky Footage, alongside Majd Nassif (“Mercy”) for Longevity Footage and Kameek Lucas Taitt (“Love and Monsters”).
For Studiocanal, boarding “Home Safety Hotline” underlines the corporate’s dedication to the South African trade following the current acquisition of native pay-TV outfit The MultiChoice Group by its guardian firm Canal+.
The manager producers on “Home Safety Hotline” comprise Picture Nation’s Ben Ross (“Watcher”), Jakob Pollack (“Weapons”) of Spooky Footage and Jed Benedict, who’s head of Sixth Dimension.
The movie, set within the U.S., “will follow an unemployed loner who must take a job as a phone operator at a mysterious home security company, only to realize they specialize in protecting customers from horrific monsters that come out at night,” in response to the synopsis.
“Home Safety Hotline” will now be co-developed and co-financed by Sixth Dimension, which may even deal with worldwide gross sales and launch the movie theatrically throughout Studiocanal’s territory footprint of the U.Ok., France, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand.
“What we love about Home Safety Hotline is how it takes the most ordinary corners of a home: the walls, the basement, the thing in the attic, and turns them genuinely terrifying, then runs the whole nightmare through a struggling company and the unlikely people holding it together. It’s fun, it’s scary, and it’s unlike anything out there,” mentioned Longevity Footage president Nassif. “Alongside our partners at Spooky Pictures and Image Nation, and with the support of Studiocanal’s Sixth Dimension, we’ve found exactly the right team to bring it to life.”
Commented Sixth Dimension head Benedict: “Just as every night I hope the eerie humming downstairs comes from my cheap refrigerator, every day I hope a project like ‘Home Safety Hotline’ crosses our radar. From the moment our good friends at Spooky Pictures, Image Nation and Longevity Pictures first spoke of Night Signal Entertainment’s cult game (of the same name), we knew we wanted to be involved. And when we learned that Michael Matthews would be directing — an exceptional filmmaker and a proven monster-whisperer himself — with Nick Tassoni devising our handbook through hell, it became impossible to resist.”
