Mason Thames and Mel Gibson’s ‘Monster Summer’ Sets Streaming Release (Exclusive)
Monster Summer will soon be available for streaming during an appropriate season.
Director David Henrie‘s coming-of-age adventure film is set to make its streaming debut via Paramount+ With Showtime on July 1, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Mason Thames, Mel Gibson, Kevin James, Lorraine Bracco and Patrick Renna star in the movie that Pastime Pictures released theatrically last October, just in time for Halloween.
Monster Summer centers on a group of friends teaming with a retired police detective to save their island from a mysterious presence.
Henrie helmed the film from a script by Cornelius Ulian and Bryan Schulz. Producers include Mark Fasano, James Henrie, John Blanford and Dan McDonough.
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Thames can currently be seen in theaters as the star of director Dean DeBlois’ Universal live-action film remake How to Train Your Dragon, alongside Nico Parker and Gerard Butler. Thames is also known for the 2022 release Black Phone and stars later this year in the features Black Phone 2 and Regretting You.
Gibson recently directed Lionsgate’s Mark Wahlberg-led thriller Flight Risk and is preparing to shoot the sequel to The Passion of the Christ.
In an interview with THRthat published earlier this month, Thames shared insight into the types of projects he would hope to land in the future.
“I would love to do another superhero film — a DC film or a Marvel film,” the 17-year-old actor said at the time. “I used to go to the theater with my dad as a kid to watch all the Marvel movies, and that kind of feeling is pretty cool. So maybe I’ll get to do one of those one day.”
