Tim Story’s Horror Comedy The Blackening To Hit Theaters June 2023
Lionsgate has announced today their upcoming feature film “The Blackening,” from director Tim Story featuring an all-star ensemble cast, will be coming to theaters on June 16, 2023 (just in time for Juneteenth weekend!).
The film had its World Premiere earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Tracy Oliver (“Girls Trip,” “First Wives Club”) wrote the feature film adaptation alongside Dewayne Perkins (“The Amber Ruffin Show,” “Brooklyn Nine Nine”). In addition to directing the film, Story produce the film via his The Story Company banner alongside Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions and E. Brian Dobbins of Artists First. Jason Clark and Marcei Brown also produced the film thru their production company Catchlight Studios.
The ensemble includes a robust roundup of top artists from some of the most popular film and television projects in Hollywood. “The Blackening” stars: Dewayne Perkins (“The Upshaws,” “Saved by the Bell“), Grace Byers (“Harlem,” “Empire”), Jermaine Fowler (“Coming 2 America,” “Judas and the Black Messiah”), Melvin Gregg (“Nine Perfect Strangers,” “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”), Jay Pharoah (“SNL,” “Resort to Love”), Yvonne Orji (“Insecure,” “Vacation Friends”), Antoinette Robertson (“Dear White People”), X Mayo (“The Good Doctor,” “The Farewell”), and Sinqua Walls (''Resort to Love,” “American Soul”).
Based on the 2018 Comedy Central digital short written by Perkins, “The Blackening” centers around seven Black friends who go away for the weekend only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. The feature expands on the original short’s basic premise: “The Black cast member is always the first to die in a horror movie, but what happens when everyone is Black?”