Violet McGraw Joins Anything But Ghosts With Bryce Dallas Howard
Violet McGraw has joined Anything But Ghosts, the Curry Barker film that already has bryce dallas howard, Aaron Paul, and Cooper Tomlinson attached. The cast addition lands after production wrapped in Vancouver, BC, so the project now looks more locked than open-ended.
Vancouver Wrap Tightens the Cast
The film has already finished shooting, which makes McGraw’s addition notable for what it says about the package around Barker’s next feature. Focus Features is distributing the movie, and this is its second collaboration with Barker after buying Obsession out of TIFF Midnight Madness for more than $10 million.
Barker directed Anything But Ghosts and co-wrote it with Tomlinson. That places McGraw into a production that already had its creative spine in place before the latest cast news surfaced, with the ensemble built around Barker, Tomlinson, Paul, and Howard rather than a late-stage retooling.
McGraw’s 2024 Run
McGraw returned to the big screen in M3GAN 2.0 last year and rejoined the MCU as young Yelena Belova in Thunderbolts*. She also reunited with filmmaker Mike Flanagan for The Life of Chuck, which won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival.
That run gives Barker a cast member who has moved across horror, comic-book material, and prestige festival fare in quick succession. She first broke through in The Haunting of Hill House, and more recently starred opposite her sister Madeleine in The Curse of the Necklace, which the McGraw sisters also produced.
Focus Features and Barker
Focus Features backing Barker again matters more than the casting itself. A distributor that paid more than $10 million for Obsession is clearly willing to keep financing his lane, and putting McGraw into the follow-up broadens the film’s appeal beyond the core horror crowd Barker has already reached.
Anything But Ghosts now reads like a finished ensemble package rather than a project still being assembled. For viewers, that usually means the real wait is no longer about who is in it; it is about when Focus Features decides to put the finished film in the market.
