Radio Silence filmmakers Tyler Gillett and Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin will executive produce the upcoming Something Murdered for Amblin Entertainment, Deadline reports today.
Kate Hollowell is directing, with Hollowell also rewriting a script from Liz Benham. Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham also executive producing the film.
Plot details are unfortunately not being revealed at this time, so we have no idea if this will end up being a horror project at all. But we’ll be sure to keep you posted as we learn more.
Kate Hollowell will be making her feature debut with Something Murdered, having previously directed music videos and short films including Sundance winner Say Hi After You Die.
Under the Radio Silence umbrella, Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin are the filmmakers behind Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI and Abigail. Chad Villella was formerly a member of the Radio Silence filmmaking collective, but he left the outfit earlier this year.
Kate Hollowell is directing, with Hollowell also rewriting a script from Liz Benham. Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham also executive producing the film.
Plot details are unfortunately not being revealed at this time, so we have no idea if this will end up being a horror project at all. But we’ll be sure to keep you posted as we learn more.
Kate Hollowell will be making her feature debut with Something Murdered, having previously directed music videos and short films including Sundance winner Say Hi After You Die.
Under the Radio Silence umbrella, Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin are the filmmakers behind Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI and Abigail. Chad Villella was formerly a member of the Radio Silence filmmaking collective, but he left the outfit earlier this year.
- 4/1/2025
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Kate Hollowell, the Sundance-winning multihyphenate creator, is coming on board to direct Something Murdered for Amblin Entertainment. The project is an original idea written by Liz Benham that Amblin picked up last year. Hollowell will rewrite to direct as a feature.
Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham, Tyler Gillett and Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin executive producing. Plot details are unknown.
Hollowell’s short film Say Hi After You Die, which she directed, wrote and starred in, won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award in 2024 and won Best Director at HollyShorts. She is also a top commercial and music video director, nominated for several awards including the Cannes Lion Young Director Award. Beyond film, she has made waves in music and theater, most notably with her music project Number One Popstar and her one-woman comedy show A Hero’s Journey.
Benham got her start writing and directing her own sketches and shorts,...
Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham, Tyler Gillett and Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin executive producing. Plot details are unknown.
Hollowell’s short film Say Hi After You Die, which she directed, wrote and starred in, won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award in 2024 and won Best Director at HollyShorts. She is also a top commercial and music video director, nominated for several awards including the Cannes Lion Young Director Award. Beyond film, she has made waves in music and theater, most notably with her music project Number One Popstar and her one-woman comedy show A Hero’s Journey.
Benham got her start writing and directing her own sketches and shorts,...
- 4/1/2025
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Diana Naser’s “Amplified,” Adam J. Graves’ “Anuja,” Nina Gantz’s “Wander to Wonder” and Ben Proudfoot’s “The Final Copy of Ilon Specht” have qualified for Academy Awards in the short-film categories by winning the top awards at the 20th annual HollyShorts Film Festival, which took place this week in Hollywood and held its awards ceremony on Sunday night.
HollyShorts is one of about 150 Oscar-qualifying festivals whose top winners automatically become eligible for Oscars in the three shorts categories. It is one of only 15 festivals that qualifies as many as four films for Academy Awards.
“Amplified” won the Best Short Film Grand Prize, the festival’s top award. “Anuja” took the award for live-action short, “Wander to Wonder” for animated short and “The Final Copy of Ilon Specht” for documentary short.
Ben Proudfoot, the director of the last of those films, is the reigning Oscar champ in the Best Documentary Short category,...
HollyShorts is one of about 150 Oscar-qualifying festivals whose top winners automatically become eligible for Oscars in the three shorts categories. It is one of only 15 festivals that qualifies as many as four films for Academy Awards.
“Amplified” won the Best Short Film Grand Prize, the festival’s top award. “Anuja” took the award for live-action short, “Wander to Wonder” for animated short and “The Final Copy of Ilon Specht” for documentary short.
Ben Proudfoot, the director of the last of those films, is the reigning Oscar champ in the Best Documentary Short category,...
- 8/19/2024
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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