Paramount is going later with its Edgar Wright-directed, Glen Powell-starring The Running Man, setting a November 14, 2025 release date to take advantage of access to Imax screens. The previous date for the redo of the Stephen King was November 7.
Additionally, Paramount has dated Primate from Walter Hamada’s genre label 18hz for January 9, 2026. We also understand Primate will be making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest.
Running Man moves away from 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Predators: Badlands and Mubi’s Die My Love, which are already set to be released November 7. It will now run into Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t and Neon’s Osgood Perkins horror pic’s Keeper. That’s quite the crowd of genre and fanboy fare ahead of the Thanksgiving stretch.
Set in the future, Running Man follows a man who joins a game show where contestants, who are allowed to go anywhere in the world as they are pursued by hunters hired to kill them. Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Colman Domingo and Katy O’Brien also headline.
Johnny Sequoyah in ‘Primate’
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Primate moves onto the same release date as Universal/Blumhouse’s Soulm8te and Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration. Johannes Roberts directs Primate off a script he wrote with Ernest Riera. Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander and Troy Kotsur star.
Pic’s blurb: A group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.
Hamada’s 18hz produces as part of his first-look deal with Paramount alongside John Hodges and Bradley Pilz.
While Paramount has been releasing 11-14 films in recent years, the studio is immediately looking to release 15 films for 2026, rising to ultimately 20 annually. This was spelled out by new co-Motion Picture chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein on Wednesday at a Paramount-Skydance merger press conference in Los Angeles.