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Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions now wants to strike fear through people’s earbuds.
Blumhouse and radio and podcasting giant iHeartMedia reached a deal to produce a series of fictional podcast series for potential future film and television development, the companies announced. Under the pact, the companies will collaborate to develop and produce scripted podcasts in the horror genre, including thrillers, murder mysteries, and sci-fi audio-plays.
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Any future film and TV projects developed out of the podcasts will be produced by Blumhouse and iHeartMedia.
The first podcast under the deal — supernatural horror series “The Mantawauk Caves” — is set to launch in early 2020 and will be distributed through the iHeartPodcast Network and other digital podcast platforms.
“The Mantawauk Caves,” from writer-director-producer Dan Bush (“The Signal,” “The Vault,” “The Dark Red”), weaves together narrative threads of…
