Donna Langley recalls the power and changing tone of fear in her younger audience during her speech at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Sunday.
“Youth of the Letterboxd generation are really engaged in film,” said Langley, chairman of NBCuniversal Entertainment and Studios, in a visionary session. However, the executive counseled that all conversations on social platforms for film enthusiasts need to grow organically, adding, “We can’t manufacture it.”
“We saw it (Christopher Nolan) OppenheimerLangley told TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey.
And that leads to an increasingly appreciated among younger audiences of IMAX, the studio’s big differentiator where Langley competed with “Rugby Scrum” to book the coveted screen well before its release. Nolan’s summer 2026 tent pole ticket Odyssey For example, the IMAX 70mm sold out within an hour in July.
“It’s the value of money and value in their time,” she said. “It’s all about wallet sharing.”
Langley also tackled the changing nature of horror, a bankable genre that is traditionally a spectator, as evidenced by Warner Bros.’s summer breakout weapons $244 million at Worldwide Box Office, Focus features a $181 million take called “Worldwide Take” for a second half of 2024 release Nosfer.
“We’re seeing a change in fear,” Langley said. “It’s not fear that I’ve come to know about over the past decade.
NBCuniversal’s focus feature is understood to be exclusive negotiation for most of the world with TIFF Midnight Madness Horror Obsessionpremiered on Friday night.
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