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‘Smile’ Filmmaker Parker Finn Signs First-Look Deal With Paramount (Exclusive)
Parker Finn, the filmmaker behind 2022’s biggest horror hit, Smile, has signed a multiyear, first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. Paramount distributed Smile, which Finn wrote and directed, with the movie grossing over $216 million worldwide. Among the movie’s distinctions, other than creeping people out with scary smiles, was being the first original horror title to hold […]
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How Parker Finn’s ‘Smile’ Went From Streaming to Theatrical in a Single Night
[This story contains spoilers for Smile.] Nobody is smiling more than filmmaker Parker Finn these days. Finn knows full well that his feature directorial debut, Smile, has had a charmed run. Originally green lit to be a Paramount+ exclusive, the Sosie Bacon-led horror movie about a curse that reveals itself in the form of a […]
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‘Smile’ Review: Sosie Bacon Stars in a Genuinely Frightening Horror Debut
The actress leads Parker Finn's film about a woman haunted and hunted by her trauma, co-starring Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert and Kal Penn.
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