Universal Pictures has set the streaming premiere date for its Chris McKay-directed horror comedy Renfield, starring Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage, announcing that the film will bow exclusively on Peacock on June 9th
The film released in theaters on April 14th follows Renfield , the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss: Dracula . For centuries, Renfield has slavishly served Dracula by procuring his master’s prey and doing his every bidding, no matter how debased.
Awkwafina and Shohreh Aghdashloo are among the others starring in the film scripted by Ryan Ridley, from a story by Robert Kirkman — one of a number of projects through which Uni has looked to leverage its movie monster library for a modern audience. McKay, Samantha Nisenboim, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Kirkman and David Alpert produced, with Todd Lewis as exec producer.didn’t perform in theaters as its studio had hoped at a gross just over $25M, and reviews for the film were mixed, Deadline’s Pete Hammond said in
that the film is “a lot of fun, thanks especially to Hoult who is perfectly cast here, and of course Cage who, no shock, nails this role.your grandfather’s Dracula, rather a contemporary very dark comedy mixed with uninhibited violence and graphically bloody, no-holds-barred body parts hurling everywhere,” remarked Hammond. “In this regard it is perfectly in tune with today’s horror audiences who grew up on Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers.
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