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Malek Akkad
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Malek Akkad is an American film producer and director. He is the son of the late Moustapha Akkad, executive producer of the original Halloween franchise. After his father’s passing, he kept the franchise going, executive producing both of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakes, as well as the reboot trilogy with Blumhouse Productions. He is the head of Trancas International Films, which currently hold the rights for the Halloween franchise.
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The Bogeyman Never Dies
From Elm Street to Halloween, Scream to Candyman, horror icons keep returning in new forms. Freddy's Dead marked a strange end that became a beginning.
8 films
From Oscar Glory to Genre Gold: A Career Reinvention Chain
Trace the arc of performers who swapped prestige for pulp, and found a different kind of immortality in genre cinema.
4 films
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