Paramount is going later with the Edgar Wright-directed, Glen Powell starring The Running Man on Nov. 14 to take advantage of access to Imax screens. Previous date for the redo of the Stephen King was Nov. 7.
Additionally, Paramount has dated Primate from Walter Hamada’s genre label 18hz for Jan. 9, 2026. We also understand Primate will be making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest.
Running Man moves away from 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Predators: Badlands and Mubi’ Die My Love which are already on Nov. 7.
Running Man will now run into Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t and NEON’s Osgood Perkins horror pic’s Keeper. That’s quite the crowd of genre and fanboy fare before the Thanksgiving stretch.
Primate moves onto the same release date as Universal/Blumhouse’s Soulm8te and Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration. Johannes Roberts directs Primate off a script he wrote with Ernest Riera. Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, and Troy Kotsur star.
Pic’s blurb: A group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.
Hamada’s 18hz production company, as part of his first look deal with Paramount, alongside John Hodges and Bradley Pilz.
While Paramount has been releasing 11-14 films in recent years, the studio is immediately look to release 15 films for 2026, rising to ultimately 20 annually. This was spelled out by new co-Motion Picture chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein yesterday at the Paramount-Skydance merger press conference.
