‘Nosferatu’ From Robert Eggers Sets Holiday 2024 Release

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Christmas 2024 is getting a horror entry.

Focus Features has dated Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu for Dec. 25, 2024, a date currently occupied by Jordan Peele’s fourth feature, a fellow Universal title.

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Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp star in Nosferatu, alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.

The film is Eggers’ take on the classic vampire made famous in the F.W. Murnau 1922 film. The logline for Eggers’ Nosferatu reads: “A Gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.”

Eggers produced the feature, along with Chris Columbus, who worked with Eggers on The Witch and The Lighthouse, as well as Eleanor Columbus, Jeff Robinov and John Graham.

Focus previously worked with the director on the Viking epic The Northman, which landed $70 million at the global box office. Peter Kujawski, chairman of Focus Features, stated, “The audacious filmmaking of Robert Eggers is always a gift for fans, and we can promise that his Nosferatu is planning quite the Christmas feast.”

Currently, Focus is in theaters with The Holdovers, the latest feature from Alexander Payne that reteams him with Sideways star Paul Giamatti. That film has grossed $12 million at the domestic box office. The studio recently picked up Jeff Nichols’ feature The Bikeriders after the film was moved off its date early this year amid the actors strike and was subsequently shopped around by the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios.

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