Fangoria, the long-running horror fan magazine, is once again under new management, which plans to use the Fangoria brand as the focus of a full-court multimedia blitz. Tara Ansley, CEO of Wanderwell Entertainment, and Abhi Goel, a tech entrepreneur, have purchased Fangoria and the rights to all its back material from its previous owner, Dallas Sonnier.
Ansley and Goel’s plans for Fangoria include the planned launches of a podcast network, a production studio, and several digital imprints. Fangoria’s sister publications, Gorezone and Starlog, have also changed hands in the deal. Ansley, posting on LinkedIn, says that the new ownership intends to “develop projects based upon [Fangoria‘s] porfolio that champion new and diverse creators… across multiple platforms, starting in 2021.”
Ansley has a strange body of work for someone who just became the co-owner of the world’s leading horror magazine. She’s been working in film and TV production since 2008, and made her debut as a producer with the 2017 dark comedy Tragedy Girls, starring Deadpool’s Brianna Hildebrand. Since then, she’s produced the 2019 romantic comedy Summer Night, and Beast Beast, a small-town coming-of-age story that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Ansley’s next film project is My Dead Dad, a drama about a man who inherits an apartment complex from his estranged father, which is currently scheduled for a 2020 release.
She doesn’t lack for enthusiasm, however. Ansley posted on her personal Twitter that “if a little girl who grew up wanting to be in [Fangoria] can one day co-own Fangoria, that goes to show you that we can all really do anything if we keep banging our heads into the walls long enough.” Interestingly, Ansley’s various announcements about the Fangoria acquisition, at time of writing, all focus heavily on using the brand to push new creators, rather than simply seeing what intellectual property can be mined from its archives. It’s an unusual take.
It should be noted that Ansley and Goel’s stated plans for Fangoria aren’t much of a departure at all from the magazine’s history. Fangoria was founded in 1979 as a monthly fan magazine that focused on fantasy film, but soon changed its focus to covering current and upcoming horror movies. It quickly became a must-read among horror fans and professionals, with many copies of Fangoria even appearing in various horror films (like Friday the 13th Part III, above). At the height of its success, Fangoria also ran a film production company, its own awards show (the Chainsaws), a radio talk program, and a very short-lived line of comics.
Like many other monthly magazines, however, the 2010s were rough on Fangoria. It ceased print publication in 2015 and made an attempt to shift to a digital format, burning through several editors in chief in the process. Fangoria was subsequently acquired by Sonnier via his entertainment company Cinestate, the studio behind films such as Bone Tomahawk and Dragged Across Concrete, in February of 2018. The print edition was relaunched as a quarterly magazine, labeled “Volume 2,” in October of the same year.
Fangoria‘s editorial staff is not affected by the company’s change in ownership, and according to its editor-in-chief, Phil Nobile Jr., is still scheduled to release its next print issue this October.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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