Sony moving ahead with its new Horror Lab division
This week, Sony Pictures announced that the mega-entertainment company is forging an alliance with the production company Ground Control to open the Screen Gems’ Horror Lab, an initiative that will focus on the development and production of horror genre proof-of-concepts. The program will collaborate with up-and-coming filmmakers to produce horror shorts with the primary goal of developing this new, original content into feature films.
Scott Glassgold’s Ground Control will serve as producer on the proof-of-concepts and prospective feature adaptations. Scott Strauss and Michael Bitar will oversee for the studio.
“We envision the Horror Lab as another step in the evolution of our label as a leading genre supplier,” said Screen Gems’ Steve Bersch. “We pride ourselves on supporting next generation creatives and see this as another way to bring exciting new talent and ideas to global audiences.”
Ground Control has shown considerable success in setting up shorts to film adaptations and has already begun the search for a new battery of diverse filmmakers from around the world with strong, original horror concepts.
“With proof-of-concept emerging as a reliable source material for feature films, the aim is to work with filmmakers at the incubation stage to help actualize their concepts and grow the material organically through the development process,” said Ground Control’s Scott Glassgold. “
We are providing a one-of-a-kind launch pad for horror filmmakers and films of tomorrow.”
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc. Screen Gems is a film production and distribution studio which is a division of SPE.
(Source: Sony Pictures)
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