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.
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