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    Nia Dacosta Explains Why 'Candyman' Release Gets Delayed to 2021

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    The horror film, which was originally set to hit the theaters on October 16, centers on a struggling artist who begins to lose his sanity after discovering the story of Candyman.
    Sep 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Filmmaker Nia DaCosta’s forthcoming horror film “Candyman” has been pushed back to 2021.
    The movie was set to hit theatres on 16 October, but it is being held back due to the coronavirus pandemic and will now open some time next year, according to Variety.
    Directed by Nia DaCosta, it is based on a ghostly legend and centres on a struggling artist, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who begins to lose his sanity after discovering the story of “Candyman”.
    As the tale goes, if someone says his name to a mirror five times, “Candyman” will appear and kill whoever summoned him. The much-anticipated film was set to be one of the year’s biggest Halloween releases.
    The director explained on Twitter the film was pushed because the production team “wanted the horror and humanity of ‘CANDYMAN’ to be experienced in a collective.”

    Director Nia Dacosta talked about release delay of ‘Candyman’.
    She continued: “We made ‘CANDYMAN’ to be seen in theaters. Not just for the spectacle but because the film is about community and stories – how they shape each other, how they shape us. It’s about the collective experience of trauma and joy, suffering and triumph, and the stories we tell around it.”

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      New 'Candyman' Teaser Reveals Haunting Origin Story

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      Presented in the form of shadow puppet short, the latest promo for Nia DaCosta’s upcoming horror movie highlights the racial history of the classic slasher film.
      Jun 18, 2020
      AceShowbiz – A new teaser for Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” is here for viewing pleasure to tide fans over its upcoming release. Unveiled aptly during the fight for social justice for black community in the U.S., the latest sneak peek tackles racial history of the horror classic.
      The haunting teaser reveals the origin story of the title character which is presented in the form of shadow puppet short. It recounts stories of black people being persecuted and prosecuted, which is so familiar to everyone right now.
      In the original 1992 film, Daniel Robitaille, a black artist in the late 1800s, falls in love with the white woman whose portrait he is hired to paint. This enrages the woman’s father and others, who brutally murder Daniel, cutting his hand off before throwing him into a flame.
      Sharing the teaser on her Twitter page, DaCosta wrote along with it, “CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs. The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been.”
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      The upcoming movie will follow Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who finds himself entangled in a series of horrific murders. The previously released trailer suggests that Anthony is possessed by the spirit of Candyman, who was played by Tony Todd in the original film.
      According to the official synopsis, “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 and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), 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) 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.”
      The new “Candyman” movie was originally slated to open on June 12, but is now pushed back to September 25 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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      First Trailer for 'Candyman' Remake Features Creepy Version of Destiny's Child's 'Say My Name'

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      The Nia DaCosta-directed film from producer Jordan Peele re-imagines the 1992 horror pic with a focus on the gentrification of the North Side neighborhood.
      Feb 28, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Candyman” is summoned back with the release of its first official full trailer. From producer-writer Jordan Peele, the movie re-imagines the 1992 slasher film based on Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden”, with a mix of horror and gentrification.
      The fear-inducing trailer features a haunting version of Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name”, which is appropriate with the urban legend that becomes the core of the story. The terror starts as a group of girls are slaughtered after calling the forbidden name five times in front of the mirror.
      Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) somehow gets hooked to this story and finds himself entangled in a series of horrific murders. The trailer suggests that Anthony is possessed by the spirit of Candyman, who was played by Tony Todd in the original film.
      According to the official synopsis, “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 and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), 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) 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.”
      “Gentrification is what helped us to reimagine the story because Cabrini-Green is gone,” said director Nia DaCosta at an exclusive viewing of the trailer. “The movie from the ’90s has a vision of Cabrini-Green where it’s sort of on its way to being knocked down.”
      Asked if Todd would return for the new movie, DaCosta coyly answered, “Well, well, well. I really love Tony Todd and he’s iconic. I will say what we’ve done with this film – is great! And I don’t want to give anything away.”
      “Candyman” remake is set to hit theaters nationwide on June 12.

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