Bloody Disgusting Launches Audio and Publishing Imprint With ‘Terrifier’ and ‘Dead Space’ Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

Cineverse’s Bloody Disgusting multimedia horror model has introduced its enlargement with the creation of a publishing imprint, Bloody Press, and new forays into audio.

Bloody Press will act because the publishing arm of the corporate, which can create audiobooks, ebooks and print books. Its first title can be an adaptation of the 2022 hit horror movie “Terrifier 2″ starring David Howard Thornton as iconic villain Art the Clown. Tim Waggoner, who wrote the novelization for Universal Pictures’s “Halloween Ends,” will write the guide. The novelized “Terrifier 2” can be obtainable in print, audio and digital codecs in February 2024.

With the second “Terrifier” movie, the corporate additionally plans on bringing the unique “Terrifier” and the upcoming “Terrifier 3” into guide codecs. The two books can be obtainable with the premiere of “Terrifier 3” in theaters Oct. 25, 2024.

Following the success of the “Terrifier” model, the Cineverse Podcast Network, recognized for its “Bloody FM” podcast banner, has introduced a brand new podcast devoted to “Terrifier.” It may also produce a brand new scripted audio collection, “Dead Space: Deep Cover,” which can comply with a journalist looking for her lacking sister who joined a Unitologist church. “Dead Space: Deep Cover” is produced in collaboration with Electronic Arts.

Bloody Disgusting podcasts have seen nice success, with podcast income rising as much as 214% in September 2023 in comparison with September 2022, in accordance with the corporate. Additionally, zombie scripted audio collection “The Dead” entered the highest 10 in Apple’s podcasts classes after debuting on Oct. 31. To assist spearhead the enlargement of the Cineverse Podcast Network, the corporate has appointed Tom Owen, co-founder of Bloody Disgusting, to the newly-created position of managing director of audio, in addition to Pacific Obadiah to go of programming.

“From the theatrical success of impartial movies corresponding to ‘Terrifier 2,’ to the triple-digit development at Screambox as we method two years since buying the streamer, we’ve got amassed a robust monitor document in horror,” stated Cineverse president and chief technique officer Erick Opeka. “Tom Owen, Brad Miska and your entire Bloody Disgusting group haven’t solely proven the flexibility to determine and develop nice horror content material, but in addition to drive new income for the corporate general, throughout each medium, together with audio, client merchandise, and now publishing.”   

“I’m thrilled for the approaching debut of Bloody Press, and for the chance for Pacific and I to take what we’ve got realized from Bloody FM to increase our audio capabilities into different genres,” stated Owen. “We are grateful to the followers and types who’ve linked with nice podcasts like ‘The Dead,’ ‘Mayfair Watcher’s Society’ and ‘The Losers’ Club,’ and might’t wait to convey them ‘Dead Space: Deep Cover,’ ‘Terrifier’ and extra within the coming months.”