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Paramount Vantage Conjures Up Ghosts/Aliens

With not too many future NCFOMs, Into the Wilds, There Will Be Bloods in the pipeline, today’s announcement belongs to the batch of comedy projects that PV’s president Guy Stodel is shepherding, re-tooling the division with the type of fair that seems fit for a certain 18-25 demographic that is elusive with more serious bait. THR reports that Vantage as co-acquired along with Comedy Central the rights to Ghosts/Aliens.

Eric Lavallée

Published on March 5, 2009

I wonder if three or four years down the road we’ll be looking at Paramount Vantage in terms of “before” and “after”. The median point might be when the parent company merged operations to save a buck, but it will probably be how their development slate changed — become more genre specific. With not too many future NCFOMs, Into the Wilds, There Will Be Bloods in the pipeline, today’s announcement belongs to the batch of comedy projects that PV’s president Guy Stodel is shepherding, re-tooling the division with the type of fair that seems fit for a certain 18-25 demographic that is elusive with more serious bait. THR reports that Vantage as co-acquired along with Comedy Central the rights to Ghosts/Aliens.

To be scripted by Phil Johnson, this is based on Trey Hamburger‘s supernatural comedy novel which centers on two pothead friends who set out on a quest to discover both ghosts and aliens.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).