Paramount Gets Rights to New Friday the 13th and South Park Movies for a Cut of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

Posted by on June 6th, 2013   Filed under: Comedy, Horror, Industry News

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In this age of risk-averse movie studios, we’re seeing a lot more co-productions in order to offset some of the financial burden. However, it doesn’t happen all that often that one studio actually asks another to cut them in on a major blockbuster. That is apparently what happened earlier this year, when Warner Brothers and Paramount announced that they would co-produce and distribute Christopher Nolan’s upcoming sci-fi film Interstellar. Warner Brothers has worked with Nolan on all of his films since Insomnia back in 2002, and they obviously know that he is about as close to a sure thing as you can find in Hollywood right now. However, since Interstellar was originally a Steven Spielberg project, it was set up at Paramount and Warner Brothers had to work out a deal in order to take part. So what did they have to give up in order to participate in his latest project? Would you believe… the rights to new Friday the 13th and South Park movies?

According to THR, in exchange for giving Warner Brothers a 50/50 split on Interstellar, Paramount was able to secure sole rights to the next Friday the 13th installment and a potential new South Park movie. The WB also agreed to return the favour by allowing Paramount to co-finance an A-list Warner Brothers property in the near future. The deal is good for the next five years, giving Paramount that length of time to get these movies off the ground.

Overall, it sounds like Paramount made out quite well, although if Interstellar turns out to be another Inception-sized hit ($825 million worldwide), it will be well worth it for Warner Brothers. The Friday the 13th and South Park franchises pale in comparison. The future of the rebooted Friday the 13th franchise has been up in the air over the past few years, but this should finally clear the way for a new one to happen. On the other hand, the first South Park movie, South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, came out in 1999 and a new feature film is probably long overdue. Are you looking forward to a new Friday the 13th and/or South Park movie?



  • Rick Anderson

    yes for southpark

  • PlanBFromOuterSpace

    Wasn’t Paramount already involved in the Platinum Dunes “Friday the 13th” a few years back (co-producing with New Line/WB)? Not to mention, they put out the first 8 movies in the series. They also put out the “South Park” movie, so yes, I can very much believe that WB handed over the rights. It seems less like a compromise and more like the franchises just being returned home.

  • Heradixle

    There was already going to be another feature length South Park movie but they decided it wasn’t worth it so they broke it down into a 3 part episode called Imaginationland. Watch them all in a row and you are essentially watching the 2nd South Park film.

  • gaynaldogayness

    You could easily say the same thing bout the superhero episodes or any other story that extended over several episodes.

  • Heradixle

    Ok but they stated it about these episodes specifically.