EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films and AMC Networks’ horror streamer Shudder have acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Meredith Alloway’s feature debut Forbidden Fruits, co-written by Alloway and Lily Houghton.
The film is adapted from Houghton’s play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die, and is produced by Mason Novick, Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body), Trent Hubbard, and Mary Anne Waterhouse.
Forbidden Fruits will star Lili Reinhart (Hustlers), Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Victoria Pedretti (You), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie) and Emma Chamberlain in her debut performance. IFC Films plan to release the film, which is currently in production, theatrically in 2026.
In Forbidden Fruits, Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“We are thrilled to join forces with the creative minds behind Forbidden Fruits. Meredith Alloway and Lily Houghton delivered a bewitching script that struck us as a project we felt deeply compelled to onboard early and ensure a theatrical release. With one of the brightest and most hotly anticipated cast lineups, Forbidden Fruits Forbidden Fruits is gearing up to be a must-see in 2026,” the Head of AMC Networks’ Films Group Scott Shooman said.
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Forbidden Fruits is executive produced by Charlie Traisman and Katherine Romans from Madhouse Films, and Casey Durant and Rachel Douglas from Range. The deal was negotiated by Rachael Labes of IFC Films with Alex Walton at WME on behalf of the filmmakers.
Reinhart is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Peikoff Mahan Law Office. Tung is repped by CAA, Carissa Stewart, Narrative and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Shipp is repped by CAA, Neon Kite & Goodman Genow. Chamberlain is repped by UTA & Hanson Jacobson.
