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The Fantastic Pitches Winner Lands a Wide Theatrical Release Next Spring
Nicolas Curcio’s feature debut now has a date with theaters. Focus Features and Blumhouse Atomic will open Play House wide on April 2, 2027, Deadline has the scoop, with Universal Pictures International handling the release overseas.
The micro-budget chiller follows a young man fixing up a dilapidated house in hopes of winning back his ex. In the basement he uncovers a stash of VHS tapes from a children’s puppet program that never made it to air, and the tiny voices pleading on those recordings sound disturbingly real. The longer he keeps watching, the more the house seems to recall what happened inside its walls.
Curcio directs from a script he wrote with Kirby Gladstein, and the cast is led by Will Harrison, Jessica Sula, Jordan Gonzalez and James Urbaniak. The project first turned heads by winning Fantastic Pitches, and it extends the partnership between Focus, Blumhouse Atomic and Divide/Conquer that delivered the record-setting Obsession. The same team has Curry Barker’s next film, Anything But Ghosts, dated for May 7, 2027, and is also teaming on Josh Giuliano’s Occupant.
Curcio and Gladstein produce alongside Ben Gojer, Jack Forbes and Derek Tramont, while Ahbra Perry, Daniel Levin, Adam Hendricks, Greg Gilreath and Jason Blum serve as executive producers.
Film: Play House
Director: Nicolas Curcio
Writers: Nicolas Curcio, Kirby Gladstein
Cast: Will Harrison, Jessica Sula, Jordan Gonzalez, James Urbaniak
Distributors: Focus Features (domestic), Universal Pictures International (international)
Release Date: April 2, 2027 (theaters)
Source: Reporting and confirmation via Deadline.
