To be co-produced by Ghostrider Ent.
Update: To correct Variety‘s initial report, we have been informed Mark Morgan and Greg Segal are, in fact, producing Slaughter in Mississippi.
CP Prods.’ Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters and the Mississippi-based Ghostrider Entertainment are joining forces to co-finance a slate of 10 fright films in the next three years.
Variety reports CP’s genre division will be spearheaded by Eric Thompson, who formerly ran the Maverick Films genre label Maverick Red; he came to CP Prods. when he signed his Doomsday Twin Prods. label to a first-look deal with the production company. Thompson hung on to most of the genre projects that he developed at Maverick Red, and he made the approach to Ghostrider Entertainment, which is headed by Wes Benton.
Two of the genre films are Rites of Spring, written and directed by Padraig Reynolds, about what happens when a father, intent on avenging his murdered son, crosses paths with a serial killer targeting teens; and Slaughter, a Nathan Brookes and Bobby Lee Darby-scripted horror film that will be directed by Victor Garcia. Thompson developed the latter at Maverick.
The intention is to make two to three films each year, the majority of which will be shot in Mississippi and surrounding areas. That will allow the productions to tap into tax credits and financial incentives being promoted by the Mississippi Film Office to fuel post-Hurricane Katrina economic growth.
Source: Variety
