{"id":400558,"date":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400558\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","slug":"milk-serial-filmmaker-to-direct-anything-but-ghosts-for-jason-blum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400558\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Milk &#038; Serial&#8217; Filmmaker to Direct &#8216;Anything But Ghosts&#8217; for Jason Blum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch comedian <strong>Curry Barker<\/strong> quickly established himself as a formidable horror filmmaker when he posted <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/editorials\/3826876\/milk-serial-new-found-footage-movie-is-one-of-this-years-best-kept-secrets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Milk &amp; Serial<\/strong><\/a> on YouTube last year. Made for $800, the hour-long found footage film has amassed more than 2 million views.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the release of Barker\u2019s sophomore feature, <strong>Obsession<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/curry-barker-to-direct-star-anything-but-ghosts-1236359285\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a> reports that the 25-year-old filmmaker has set up his next project: <strong>Anything But Ghosts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Blumhouse\u2019s <strong>Jason Blum<\/strong> is teaming with fellow genre titans <strong>Roy Lee<\/strong> (Weapons, It) and <strong>Steven Schneider<\/strong> (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) of Spooky Pictures to produce the project alongside <strong>Adam Hendricks <\/strong>and<strong> Greg Gilreath<\/strong> for Divide\/Conquer (M3GAN, Heart Eyes).<\/p>\n<p>Barker will direct a script he co-wrote with creative partner <strong>Cooper Tomlinson<\/strong>. The pair will also star in the film. No plot details are available.<\/p>\n<p>Image Nation and That\u2019s a Bad Idea are backing Anything But Ghosts, with executive producers including Barker, Tomlinson, and Ben Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Obsession premieres tonight\u2019s as part of the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it hopes to find a buyer.<\/p>\n<p>In that film, when a hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sketch comedian Curry Barker quickly established himself as a formidable horror filmmaker when he posted Milk &amp; Serial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[138233,138234,77,85169,138235,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anything-but-ghosts","9":"tag-curry-barker","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jason-blum","12":"tag-milk-serial","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115152944226246585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}