Crimson follows FaZe Rug who has just bought a multi-million smart house, only to find out that his dream home has some not so friendly neighbors. ... who previously served as editor on Get Out and director on a Paranormal Activity sequel. FROM THE PRODUCERS OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, THE PURGE & GET OUT CRIMSON Horror / Thriller / Comedy Brian Awadis aka FaZe Rug is one of the most popular gaming influencers on the planet, and he just hit his biggest milestone yet: buying his own fully loaded, multi-million dollar smart house.But he soon finds out that having your dream home doesn't guarantee dream neighbors. We aren't asking this talent to pretend that there's somebody else we are putting them in the situations where they are playing themselves, and we're building the world around them.”. “It looked like it was a VHS-style camera that was recording it. “Historically, Hollywood has kind of looked at (projects with online influencers) as like lowest common denominator,” Trink said. DIS And yet the visual effects were done with (Industrial Light & Magic), so it was obviously a pretty expensive movie. In my long and winding career, I previously worked as an award-winning writer and editor for publications such as Variety, Deadline, Red Herring, and the Los Angeles Daily News, and have been a communications exec at MGM, the USC Marshall School of Business, and the Los Angeles city redevelopment agency. Photo: Faze Clan. horrorfuel.com Copyright © 2020. We're trying a number of different ways of (image) capture that will give that sense of authenticity. PGRE There's avenues for that, but when they're playing themselves, that's where the IP is, and that's where the following is. The budget will be in line with the sorts of $1 million-plus projects Jason Blum has so profitably made for Universal, including the Paranormal Activity series. Gamer and member of FaZe Clan, FaZe Rug, will star in the film, and it will make its debut this October on Inviz.tv. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. “I have kids, and in our house, FaZe is as meaningful as any movie star was back in the day,” Goodman said. The collective also runs several prominent esports teams and counts star rappers Offset and Lil Yachty among its members. But in the way that Transformers has since become a multi-billion-dollar franchise for Paramount, Goodman said online creators represent an equally important and underserved niche for teens and tweens now, especially in pop culture sectors such as gaming. They made it clear the project will leverage Rug’s existing on-screen persona and some of the same look and feel of his social-media productions. It's not quite as significant as Christmas being canceled, but it's pretty close. Rug has 16 million YouTube subscribers, and another 11 million followers combined across TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, making him the most popular content creator in FaZe Clan’s stable of about 40, said CEO Lee Trink. So yeah, there's going to be elements that feel like what he has done historically on YouTube.