It sounds like there’s a dispute between Slender Man’s producers and Sony over the proper marketing strategy for the upcoming horror film.
Per Variety, as a result of this disagreement, the producers have begun shopping the film around to other studios in search of a higher offer, though we’ve yet to hear of any studio agreeing to do so yet.
While Sony reportedly wants to frame the film’s release as a low-budget horror romp in the vein of the successful Blumhouse model (think Split or Happy Death Day), the producers allegedly have more faith in the film’s potential for success and want to see the studio pump more money into the marketing campaign, as well as see it debut on more screens.