“Behind A Closed Door” Movie From QC Entertainment Productions, Spin A Black Yarn – Deadline

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exclusive: QC Entertainmentthe production company behind recent Oscar best picture contender black klansman and go outRight to buy JD BarkerUpcoming Erotic Thrillers behind closed doors Be the first to bid and plan to make it into a movie.

The acquisition follows QC’s partnership with Barker fourth monkey, a show based on his award-winning best-selling novel series of the same name.In this case, QC will simultaneously produce spinning black yarnon behalf of the writer.

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Sean McKittrick and Raymond Mansfield will produce the adaptation for QC Entertainment, and Ryan Lewis and Josh Malerman will produce Spin a Black Yarn. QC’s Edward H. Hamm Jr. will serve as producer along with Barker. Next, the companies will bring the book to filmmakers and actors, before reaching out to studios with packages later this year.

New York Times and international bestselling author of numerous novels, including demon and fourth monkey series, Barker’s books have been translated into more than two dozen languages ​​and sold in more than 150 countries, and, as mentioned, have been featured in both film and television. His latest collaboration with James Patterson, death of black widowPublished April 19.

Led by partners McKittrick, Mansfield and Hamm, QC Entertainment is known for critical and commercial success go out and black klansman – Filmmakers Jordan Peele and Spike Lee respectively – have been involved in every aspect of both projects, from development to production and release. These films, back-to-back Best Picture Oscar nominations for QC, also won screenplay awards. McKittrick also produced Peele’s sophomore us, which grossed $70.3 million domestically in its opening weekend alone, the highest-grossing original horror film ever. The latest features of QC, it lives in — filmmaker Bishal Dutta’s horror thriller — won the Midnight Audience Award at SXSW 2023 and will be released by Neon later this year.

After the success of Netflix’s 2018 film starring Sandra Bullock, Lewis and Josh Malerman formed Spin a Black Yarn bird box, based on Malerman’s New York Times bestseller. Lewis’s post-apocalyptic horror-thriller EP was at one point the anchor’s most-viewed film within 28 days of its release.Lewis and Malerman later made this psychological horror film we need to do somethingwhich was released by IFC Films after its Tribeca bow, and is the executive producer of the new Netflix binding bird box The film, set in Barcelona, ​​is currently in post-production.

Barker was represented by Lewis of Spin a Black Yarn and Alec Shane of Writers House; QC Entertainment of Chris Abramson of Felker Toczek Suddleson.