Cary Parker quickly rose to stardom after her hit horror film debut maniaContinuing this trend, the director sat in the front row opposite Thom Browne.
Thom Browne’s spring 2027 ready-to-wear show took place on Monday in Milan, where the director sat among the likes of Charlie Hall, Jamie Campbell Bower, Joe Burrow and Olivia Cooke.
Parker celebrated the show on Instagram, sharing a photo of himself in an all-white outfit and a second shot of himself sitting in the front row at the show. He wrote: “48 hours in Milan. Congratulations on an amazing show @thombrowne!”
His presence came only a few days later Hollywood Reporter He exclusively revealed that his next film has landed at Universal Film Group and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, in what is described as an eight-figure deal. Parker has already filmed his second film, Anything but ghostsWhich he wrote, directed, and stars in his upcoming third film, which is the first project in his orbit after the success mania.
The film became Focus Features’ highest-grossing release of all time; mania It also became the first film since 1982 ET: Extraterrestrial to increase in the second and third weekends after release. It was produced independently for $750,000 with Focus acquiring the project from the Toronto International Film Festival for approximately $15 million.
Parker talked about the film’s triumphs and what it did for his career in the digital cover of THR. He said his fellow filmmakers “really started communicating” after that maniaBox office numbers rose after its third week, identically atregister.
“Nathan Fielder reached out to Tim Robinson, who he loved dearly. Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson said things publicly. I became numb because it was so unbelievable, my mind couldn’t really process it,” he said.
“The opportunities were incredible,” Parker said of his position after assuming the presidency. “I realized I could do whatever I wanted now.”mania Successes. “My whole career, I’ve had to come up with crazy ideas and pitch them, and if it didn’t go well, I’d have to come up with something else. They’d say, ‘If you could do any movie you wanted, what would it be?’ I was like, ‘Whoa.’ Let me think about that for a second.
Expanding on his horror experience, Parker will also write and direct the A24 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reboot. He said he offered his opinion on the story THR He wants his version to “capture the essence and provenance of the original” while still making something that “feels fresh and new.”
“The law is the same everywhere, so there’s not much to stay true to other than the original text,” he said. “I want to make a new generation of people afraid and give them that feeling: What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?”
