{"id":483979,"date":"2026-05-14T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:33:09","slug":"the-conjuring-writers-join-night-market-studios-as-eps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483979\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Conjuring’ Writers Join Night Market Studios as EPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThird Culture Content has unveiled Night Market Studios<\/a>, a Singapore-anchored genre label, with \u201cThe Conjuring<\/a>\u201d writers Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes joining as executive producers as the company brings a four-film debut slate to the Cannes Film Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWholly owned by Third Culture Content, the production company co-founded by Janice Chua and Sean Dulake, Night Market will concentrate on elevated horror, thriller and action-comedy drawing on Asian settings and mythologies, with franchise scalability and remake potential as central commercial aims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe debut slate includes \u201cThe Damned,\u201d directed by Oscar-nominated Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji (\u201cLunana: A Yak in the Classroom\u201d) and executive produced by Hayes and Hayes. Written by Michael Tay and Karl Gan, the horror pic follows a desperate expectant father who agrees to serve as a human vessel in a forbidden Taoist ritual, only to unleash a force from the underworld that drives him to reunite with his estranged mother \u2014 a Taoist medium \u2014 to confront a rogue priest before the curse consumes them both.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndonesia\u2019s Angga Dwimas Sasongko (\u201cStealing Raden Saleh,\u201d \u201cJumbo\u201d) is attached to helm \u201cCoverband Heist,\u201d a Jakarta-set action-comedy following five musicians who attempt a heist during an exclusive hotel event. Sasongko\u2019s studio Visinema Pictures comes aboard as producing partner.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector Marie Jamora (\u201cWhat Isn\u2019t There\u201d) is set to direct \u201cImprint\u201d from a script by Charlene Sawit-Esguerra, with Tan Si En of Momo Film Co. and Anderson Le of East Films as producing partners. Actor Liza Soberano, set to appear in DreamWorks\u2019 upcoming \u201cForgotten Island,\u201d is attached as executive producer. The supernatural thriller follows a Filipino-American woman who returns to the Philippines after her father\u2019s murder and discovers a psychic ability she must use to track a serial killer moving between the physical and spirit worlds.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the slate is \u201cThe Curse of Bali,\u201d a romantic horror-comedy with BH Entertainment as producing partner and a director yet to be announced. The film tracks three couples celebrating an engagement who antagonize a real Balinese superstition said to doom relationships, setting off a chain of fractures, suspicion and increasingly bizarre encounters.<\/p>\n

\n\tChua and Dulake said: \u201cWe\u2019ve always believed that some of the most cinematic and emotionally charged genre stories in the world are coming out of Asia. Right now, audiences are increasingly seeking stories that feel distinct, surprising and authentic. Night Market is our way of bringing together acclaimed genre story tellers Chad and Carey Hayes, bold regional voices and commercially ambitious storytelling under one banner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChad and Carey Hayes\u2019 writing and producing credits include \u201cThe Conjuring,\u201d \u201cThe Conjuring 2,\u201d \u201cThe Reaping,\u201d \u201cThe Crucifixion,\u201d \u201cThe Turning\u201d and a remake of \u201cHouse of Wax.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve long believed that genre transcends language and borders, when it\u2019s grounded in authentic culture, mythology and human emotion. What drew us to Night Market Studios was its commitment to filmmaker-driven stories that feel both deeply rooted and globally cinematic. There\u2019s an exciting wave of bold genre storytelling emerging from Asia right now, and we\u2019re thrilled to collaborate with Janice, Sean and these filmmakers to help bring these stories to international audiences,\u201d Chad and Carey Hayes said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThird Culture Content operates across Los Angeles, Singapore and Seoul. Chua previously served as VP of the international division at Imagine Entertainment and was a producer on \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d with earlier posts at Ivanhoe Pictures and Beijing Galloping Horse, where she oversaw international co-productions including John Woo\u2019s \u201cThe Crossing.\u201d Dulake produced and starred in \u201cDramaworld,\u201d the English-Korean language fantasy romantic comedy that premiered on Netflix worldwide and won best foreign drama of the year at the Seoul International Drama Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third Culture Content has unveiled Night Market Studios, a Singapore-anchored genre label, with \u201cThe Conjuring\u201d writers Chad Hayes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[11519,205679,18,117,19,17,327,211670,28540],"class_list":["post-483979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cannes-film-market","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-night-market-studios","tag-the-conjuring"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116572009668544129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}