Blumhouse and iHeartMedia have teamed up to produce a series of podcasts for potential future film and television development, the first of which is set to launch early next year.<\/p>\n
Under the new partnership, the two companies will collaborate to develop and produce scripted podcasts in the horror genre, ranging from suspenseful thrillers and murder mysteries to science fiction audio-plays. The Mantawauk Caves<\/em> will be the first podcast to emerge from the deal.<\/p>\n From writer, director and producer Dan Bush (The Signal<\/em>, The Vault<\/em>, The Dark Red<\/em>), The Mantawauk Caves<\/em> weaves together narrative threads of a social drama and supernatural horror, following three boys who enter a cave in the Appalachian Mountains, and only one makes it out alive.<\/p>\n In addition to being available on iHeartRadio and all digital podcast platforms, full episodes and excerpts of the podcasts will also be distributed across iHeartMedia broadcast radio stations, which reach more than a quarter of a billion monthly listeners, as well as via iHeartRadio\u2019s social media channels, exposing them to millions of listeners across the country.<\/p>\n In success, future film and television projects will be produced by Blumhouse and iHeartMedia, borne out of the slate\u2019s new intellectual property.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re such avid fans of great podcasts at Blumhouse\u2014the compelling storytelling that engrossing podcasts offer\u2014and we were eager to partner with iHeartRadio to curate a slate of dark, fictional stories together,\u201d said Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled the partnership has already produced The Mantawauk Caves<\/em>, the first of what we hope are several successful collaborations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe think fiction is one of the next big genres in podcasting, tapping into the incredible imaginative power we all have\u2014the theater of the mind\u2014and so we couldn\u2019t be more excited to bring this slate of shows into the world, starting with The Mantawauk Caves<\/em>,\u201d said Conal Byrne, president of the iHeartPodcast Network. \u201cBlumhouse is truly masterful at creating some of the best suspense thrillers and horror movies around and, with their help, we can\u2019t wait to introduce a series of captivating, world-class audio content to the iHeartPodcast Network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blumhouse and iHeartMedia have teamed up to produce a series of podcasts for potential future film and television development, the first of which is set to launch early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":12084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[2463,3382,3383],"class_list":["post-12083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blumhouse-productions","tag-iheartmedia","tag-the-mantawauk-caves","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n