‘Hotel Transylvania 4’ Skipping Theaters, Headed For Streaming - UPDATED
Hotel Transylvania 4 Now Scheduled for January 14, 2022
Updated October 2021
UPDATE
Following multiple theatrical delays, the final film in the Hotel Transylvania series is skipping theaters and now headed straight for streaming. Variety reports that Sony and Amazon have struck a deal for more than $100 million for the animated feature Hotel Transylvania: Transformania to stream on Amazon Prime.
While the “Hotel Transylvania” franchise has enjoyed blockbuster success for Sony, the surge in COVID cases—driven by the highly contagious delta variant predominantly infecting unvaccinated people—has made theatrical releases of family pics difficult as there is no vaccine yet for children under 12.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE WATCHING THE MOVIE
#1 Adam Sandler is no longer Count Dracula
Adam Sandler has lent his voice to the role of Count Dracula in all three "Hotel Transylvania" films to date. However, the trailer for "Transformania" revealed that he will not be returning for the final film. Instead, actor Brian Hull has been hired to replace Sandler. Notably, this isn't the only replacement in the film — Brad Abrell has stepped in to take over the role of Frankenstein, a character originally voiced by Kevin James.
#2 Humans know that monsters exist
Before you see "Hotel Transylvania: Transformania," you may want a quick refresher on the status quo of the "Hotel Transylvania" world. At the beginning of the series, monsters are keeping their existence a secret from the human world at large (that's why Johnny's accidental intrusion at the hotel is such a crisis). After the events of the first film, Drac learns to trust humans again and decides to no longer hide in the shadows. In the sequels, it's made clear that humans are now aware that monsters still exist. Even better, they are no longer scared of the creatures and all monster-hunting organizations have been eradicated.
#3 Dracula is engaged (possibly married)
While the first two "Hotel Transylvania" films largely focus on Dracula's daughter, Mavis, finding love with a warm-hearted human and having a half-monster child, the third movie follows Drac as he finally pursues a romance of his own.
PREVIOUS UPDATE
Sony has delayed the release of Hotel Transylvania 4. At this point, there is no announced date. With concerns over the delta variant, and children under 12 not being allowed to be vaccinated, the movie’s theatrical date remains up in the air.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Get ready this summer to see the Dracula family and friends in a whole new light with Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, scheduled to open July 23, 2021. Following the events of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Van Helsing's mysterious "Monsterfication Ray" turns Johnny into a monster, while transforming Drac and his monster pals into humans! Now, Drac and Johnny must race across the globe to find a cure before their transformations become permanent.
OFFICIAL TRAILER HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA
The computer-animated monster comedy film Hotel Transylvania: Transformania stars the voices of Brian Hull as Dracula (replacing Adam Sandler), Selena Gomez and Andy Samberg as Dracula’s daughter and her human husband, plus Kathryn Hahn, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Asher Blinkoff, Brad Abrell, Fran Drescher, Jim Gaffigan, and Molly Shannon. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the fourth Hotel Transylvania is directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon from a screenplay by Amos Vernon, Nunzio Randazzo, and Genndy Tartakovsky (who directed the prior three films and co-wrote the third film).
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Created by comedy writer Todd Durham, the billion-dollar Hotel Transylvania franchise to date includes three theatrical films, three graphic novels, two short films, and a television series. The first film, Hotel Transylvania, was released September 2012, Hotel Transylvania 2 was released September 2015, and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation was released July 2018. The films have grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide.
ABOUT DRACULA
Count Dracula was introduced in Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. Considered the archetype vampire, in the novel he is also the origin of werewolf legends. Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler, who was also known as Dracula, and by Sir Henry Irving, an actor for whom Stoker was a personal assistant.
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ABOUT FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, often informally referred to as simply "Frankenstein," debuted in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley's title draws a comparison between the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, and the mythological figure Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire.
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