MastersFX Creature Shop Strikes Deal With Arcana Entertainment to Produce Genre Films Based on Arcana’s Characters (Exclusive)

Canada-based Arcana owns more than 5,000 characters “that transcend gender, age and cultural and geographic boundaries,” the company says

Todd Masters
Mastersfx chief Todd Masters with "Corrective Measures" characters/ Mastersfx & Arcana Entertainment

MastersFX creature shop and Arcana, a comic and graphic novels publisher as well as an animation and live action studio, have signed a new multipicture deal to create and produce genre feature films based on Arcana’s vast library of characters and IP, the companies announced on Monday.

Currently Arcana and MastersFX are in development on “American Wasteland,” the second of their planned joint venture films and based on an Arcana graphic novel property, the companies revealed to TheWrap via email.

“American Wasteland” tells the story of truck driver Cletus McCoy trying to save his mother from a vampire apocalypse.

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