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31 Aug

What the Candyman Ending Means for a Sequel and His Immortal Legend

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This article contains Candyman spoilers. It is an exquisite final image. Swarmed in a symphony of bees and standing triumphant over his latest victim—a police officer sprawled out in an alleyway’s gutter—Candyman looks joyful. He’s the monster who’s haunted the ruins of what was once Cabrini-Green for more than a hundred years, and the legend who frightened children and caused lovers to cling closer in their rapture, and now he’s at last returned to his flock. Only this time Candyman is saving the woman who summoned him instead of destroying her. As Teyonah Parris’ Brianna Cartwright looks on, her salvation…
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29 Aug

Candyman

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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 (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) 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…
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29 Aug

Candyman Review: Horror Movie Update is a Missed Opportunity

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In 1992, I begged my father to take me to see Candyman. He had already turned me into a horror fanatic so he needed to follow through and take me. After the film was over, I was terrified for weeks. My brain would manifest Candyman in the shadows of my room while I slept. As an adult, I don’t fancy the film as much, but I realized the allure of Candyman was that he was a terror specific to the Black community despite the circumstances of his death. I knew as a child that housing was an issue for poor…
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06 Aug

Captain Marvel 2: Candyman’s Nia DaCosta to Direct

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For the first time since 2010, it’s been over a year since the world has seen a Marvel Studios film. Still, even in the coronavirus pandemic-induced offseason, the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to make headlines.  Deadline reports that Marvel has tapped Candyman director Nia DaCosta to helm the heavily anticipated Captain Marvel sequel. The second Captain Marvel film does not currently have a name but is being targeted for a July 8, 2022 release date. That could change should Disney need to adjust the MCU schedule further due to virus lockdowns.  According to Deadline, Marvel cast a wide net for…
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29 Jun

Candyman Remake Trailer, Release Date, Cast and Details

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It’s been over 20 years since Hollywood evoked the vengeance-fueled specter of horror franchise Candyman, but the hiatus is coming to an end. With Hollywood’s reboot/remake epoch showing no signs of slowing down, and the buzz surrounding Blumhouse’s recent Halloween sequel/reboot, it appears that the Candyman’s cinematic rebirth is nigh. Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions have conjured a new Candyman manifestation. Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directed the film off a screenplay by Peele and Win Rosenfeld. The film is a “spiritual sequel” that “returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green…
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17 Jun

Candyman Origins Explored in Haunting Video from Nia DaCosta

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In another timeline, we would’ve already feasted our eyes on Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s Candyman, the semi-reboot/semi-sequel of a ‘90s cult classic. But while the movie (like much else) was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, DaCosta is not letting Candyman’s legend be forgotten. Indeed, the director of this new vision of Cabrini-Green’s boogeyman took to Twitter to share a provocative and appropriately heartbreaking puppeteer video that lays bare the racial horrors bubbling beneath the surface of the Candyman myth… and our daily lives. “CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs,” DaCosta wrote.…
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04 Apr

Candyman Release Date Delayed Until Fall

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Universal Pictures has pushed back the release of its Candyman remake/reboot from June 12 to September 25 of this year, according to Variety. Candyman was actually one of the last holdouts on Universal’s upcoming slate. Tentpoles such as F9: The Fast and Furious Saga, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Sing 2 have been moved to later this year, next year or TBA, while this month’s Trolls World Tour is still meeting its April 10 release date, only on demand. Other major spring and summer releases that have been shifted into the future include Black Widow, Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984,…
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02 Mar

What to Expect from the Candyman Reimagining

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Candyman has been gone for a long time. Almost 30 years ago, the ghostly urban legend became a modern day myth in the original 1992 film from Bernard Rose and Clive Barker—cutting up inner-city Chicago one bad game of “Bloody Mary” at a time. Yet it’s been more than two decades since he last appeared in one of that classic’s lesser sequels, and for some, that might be reason enough to finally utter the words “Candyman” five times into a mirror. If you’ve watched the new Candyman trailer though, you know that would be a deadly mistake. Indeed, the hook-handed killer never really left us.…
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