Horrormeister Mike Flanagan, one of the investors in Vancouver’s new Rio Theatre-led ownership group to save the Park Theatre, took to the stage last night Carrie-style with a crown and a big bouquet at a celebratory screening of the 1978 classic starring Sissy Spacek.
The cast of Flanagan’s new Carrie series for Prime Video joined the Prom King on stage at the Rio Theatre.
Including Summer H. Howell as Carrie.
I had a great time last night at [the Rio Theatre] for my first time watching the original Carrie🩸I am so happy I got to see it on the big screen with my friends from the series 🙂 and everybody who came out to watch with us.
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Production on the new series wrapped late last week in Vancouver.
Much of Flanagan’s mainstream success comes from his string of hit Netflix horror-with-empathy series filmed in Vancouver — from The Haunting of Bly Manor to Midnight Mass to the Edgar Allen Poe mashup The Fall of the House of Usher . Only The Haunting of Hill House was filmed elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Flanagan decided to give back by investing in the bid to re-open the Park Theatre.
Park Theatre investment group
The Rio team f approached Vancouver producer and Oddfellows Pictures owner Chris Ferguson to assemble a group of filmmakers and professionals to save the historic Park Theatre on Cambie Street.
Chris Ferguson brought in horror director/writer Osgood Perkins, who shot his breakout movie Longlegs, as well as The Monkey and the upcoming Keeper and The Young People in Vancouver; horror director Zach Lipovsky, who co-helmed horror blockbuster Final Destination: Bloodlines and the upcoming Freaks: Underground in the city;; Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard who grew up in Vancouver;; Oscar-winning Anora director Sean Baker and Mike Flanagan, among others.
