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Paramount Renews Deal with Walter Hamada for Genre Films

10/16/2025

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Paramount Pictures has renewed its exclusive, multi-year production deal with Walter Hamada and 18Hz Productions.
Hamada will continue focusing on low- to mid-budget genre films.
Primate is set for January 9, 2026, and follows a vacation gone wrong.
Other projects include an untitled horror by André Øvredal, Familiar by Caye Casas, and Suffer Little Children, a reimagining of Who Can Kill a Child?

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Story summary

Paramount Pictures has renewed its exclusive, multi-year production deal with Walter Hamada and 18Hz Productions.
Hamada will continue focusing on low- to mid-budget genre films.
Primate is set for January 9, 2026, and follows a vacation gone wrong.
Other projects include an untitled horror by André Øvredal, Familiar by Caye Casas, and Suffer Little Children, a reimagining of Who Can Kill a Child?