NEON is popping lemons into lemonade with a latest rejection for a TV commercial for his or her upcoming horror movie The Monkey, directed by Oz Perkins and primarily based on a brief story by Stephen King. Apparently, community Requirements & Practices would not permit for almost any footage of the movie to look on tv throughout the day. As they could not run a TV advert, they did the following smartest thing — leaked the (meticulously redacted) electronic mail communication about it. The emails (from Jan. 22 and 23) element NEON’s makes an attempt to safe a TV advert to air throughout a weekend afternoon of sports activities video games. “As a result of all our video games are within the afternoon, we cannot have the ability to transfer ahead,” wrote Requirements & Practices after back-and-forth communications.
“The spot under wouldn’t be permitted in any programming on the … or any … digital programming on account of … and extreme violence,” learn one electronic mail from S&P.
“Hello, thanks for getting again to us! In order that we will work on a strategy to make this placement work for TV, are you able to define the precise subject … Thanks!” Requirements & Practices then responded in a frankly hilarious (and hilariously frank) manner:
“Sometimes, we might try this, however on this case, it is just about each scene within the spot. It is excessively violent with blood splatter, graphic pictures, severed heads, … and so on.”
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Oz Perkins’ ‘The Monkey’ “Is Batsh*t Insane”
The emails clearly spotlight the wild horror and violence of The Monkey, which Perkins has promised for fairly some time. The nice horror filmmaker discovered massive success final yr with Longlegs (additionally from NEON), however his earlier indie movies (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Fairly Factor That Lives within the Home) are wonderful. The Monkey is bound to proceed that pattern, although with a a lot richer humorousness. As Perkins advised MovieWeb in 2024:
It is truly fairly humorous. It is actually fairly profane. There’s youngsters in it. It is about mother and father. It is about dads. It is about reconciliation. It is hopeful, it is humorous. It finally ends up that it is very, very, very a lot not something like Longlegs in any manner. I am tremendous joyful to have the ability to say that.
Stephen King actually appeared to love the difference of his 1980 quick story. King stated of The Monkey, “You have by no means seen something like THE MONKEY. It is batsh*t insane. As somebody who has indulged in batsh*ttery infrequently, I say that with admiration.” From NEON, The Monkey hits theaters on February 19, 2025.
The Monkey
- Launch Date
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February 19, 2025
- Runtime
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98 Minutes
- Director
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Osgood Perkins
- Writers
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Osgood Perkins
- Producers
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John Rickard, Natalia Safran, Ali Jazayeri, Chris Ferguson, Fred Berger, Giuliana Bertuzzi, James Wan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, John Friedberg, Jason Fabric, David Gendron, Michael Clear, Jesse Savath, Peter Luo, Dave Caplan