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CANDYMAN

Release Date: TBD, 2021

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects
of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth
ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned
by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a
decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist
Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his partner,
gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could
Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified
beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a
chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer (Colman Domingo; HBO’s
Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific
nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the
Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio
as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that
unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence that puts
him on a collision course with destiny.
--- Universal Pictures