Paranormal Activity has moved up its Broadway opening date to Tuesday, August 25, at the August Wilson Theatre, several weeks earlier than previously announced.
Beginning August, a new live Broadway immersion into paranormal activity will occur ..
Early word is that the special effects will blow people away..
Paranormal Activity has moved up its Broadway opening date to Tuesday, August 25, at the August Wilson Theatre, several weeks earlier than previously announced.
The previously announced first preview performance of Friday, August 14, remains in place. The production will play a strictly limited 20-week run.
The synopsis: “James (Knight) and Lou (Álvarez) move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.” The original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity “reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30. Prior to Boston, Paranormal Activity played engagements at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Center Theater Group at The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C., and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. A production in Toronto at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre began performances on June 9 and will run through July 5.
No ideas are bad! Except all of the ideas so far in the previous several Halloween movies. So think different..
This week brought disappointing news for horror fans. The long-planned and heavily rumored Halloween television series centered around Michael Myers is apparently dead before it ever even began.
Word coming from insiders suggests that the Moustapha Akkad family believes another Halloween movie makes more sense than a television series, and honestly, that is probably the right call. There also appears to be lingering friction involving David Gordon Green and the family, largely because they were not particularly thrilled with the recent Blumhouse Productions trilogy. While the films gave us a fantastic soundtrack and certainly had their fans, that final movie was, quite frankly, abysmal. Wrecked. Terrible.
The truth is, Michael Myers feels like a character built for the big screen. He belongs in dark theaters, not on a smaller screen or viewed on a phone. But there is a problem. If we look back over the last twenty years, most of the Halloween films simply have not been very good.
That said, I think there is one silver lining buried inside Halloween Kills that filmmakers should seriously consider exploring.
If you remember the opening sequence of Halloween Kills, we were suddenly back in the 1970s. Michael Myers had survived his confrontation with Dr. Loomis and was still on the loose that same terrifying night. Those first several minutes were incredible. The aesthetics were perfect. The gritty atmosphere captured the spirit of the original film almost flawlessly, and for a brief moment it felt like we were watching a continuation of John Carpenter’s original vision.
That is exactly where this franchise should go next.
I think fans are hungry for something new, and ironically the freshest idea might actually be continuing the original Halloween night itself. Pick up directly after the events of the 1978 film and follow the chaos unfolding across Haddonfield as the town realizes a serial killer is still roaming the streets.
The beauty of this idea is that it does not even need to center around Laurie Strode. Remember, originally Michael Myers was not hunting Laurie because she was family. That idea came later. In the original film, she was simply random. Wrong place, wrong time.
So why not embrace that again?
Keep Michael random. Keep the other characters from the original movie in the background while the Haddonfield massacre continues through the night. Show the town descending into chaos as police scramble, citizens panic, and Michael continues his rampage.
What makes this even more interesting is that this version of Michael Myers existed before he fully evolved into the supernatural force the sequels turned him into. There was still mystery there. He had survived six gunshot wounds from Loomis, hinting at something unnatural, but he still largely felt human.
That tension worked.
Honestly, if they made a movie like this, I would not even care if Michael dies again by the end. Bring him back later if you want. It does not matter.
The original Halloween remains the best film in the franchise, even if time has softened some of its horror impact for modern audiences. But a new movie that fully embraces that 1970s gritty Haddonfield atmosphere, exactly what we briefly saw in Halloween Kills, could absolutely work.
And here is the interesting part. If you ask true Halloween fans, those opening minutes of Halloween Kills are still often ranked among the best moments in the entire modern franchise.
One final thought, and this might be unpopular.
If someone wanted to revisit Halloween III: Season of the Witch and give us a modern remake?
I would be all for that too.
Because despite not featuring Michael Myers, Halloween III had something the franchise desperately needs right now.
An original idea.
And maybe that is exactly what horror fans have been waiting for all along.
It’s been rated badly ..its numbers are reflecting its reputation…
Every week we fall victim to the same thing that everyone else does. The race at the box office, the summer season and comparing how much money a movie is making. But yet forgetting if a movie’s good or not.
A lot of people who have seen Supergirl don’t like it, a lot of critics lambasted it but some fans on rotten tomatoes are giving it some decent ratings. That being said the movie is going to finish probably under $40 million dollars for opening weekend, and that’s most likely going to be factored as a failure for the film.
In the weeks leading up to this moment, there have been a lot of predictions which continue to downgrade expectations lower each time, and now that the film has been released the real numbers are coming in and it’s not pretty.
But as a fan of Masters of the Universe, it’s not easy living through a box office moment like this.. some true fans will defend the movie till the end while others will probably be realistic in how good it really is. As for the rest of the box office toy story is ruling the day, the film will maintain its number one status and number three will be the return of the Jackass movie.. they’re all a little bit older and they’re relying on nostalgia from 20 years back to prop them up just one more time.
Notable that back rooms and obsession are lingering with still decent money..
We don’t know if they’ll be a Masters of the Universe part 2 but we sure don’t think there will be a second Supergirl…
The spirit of 26 feels a bit off compared to the spirit in 76..
I would genuinely love to know what it felt like for people who lived through major celebrations of this country in decades past, because celebrations right now feel a bit… off.
Queue the Patriotic Charlie Brown voice: It seems like everyone is supposed to be excited. Mattress companies and car dealerships are running their America 250 specials, Walmart has their made in other countries red white and blue products out, and yet there just seems to be something missing surrounding this enormous anniversary for the United States.
Maybe it is just me? If you are feeling it too, maybe it is just you! Of course, for every person feeling that way, there are probably plenty of others proudly hanging decorations and embracing the American 250 celebration with excitement and genuine patriotism. But something feels different.
When you look back through old fishwrappers and faded pieces of history from previous eras, it always feels like celebrations were bigger. Communities seemed more connected. The pride looked more visible. Maybe nostalgia distorts things, but history often paints that picture, with the Bicentennial seemingly being the most brilliant of all celebrations.. even black and white newspapers seemingly are filled with the patriotic colors..
We are fond of these old videos.. and there are plenty more still to be found.. Imagine the hidden videos still tucked away in basements or attics that we don’t even know exist yet!
But all of the images equally give a shock to the senses.. how much things have changed.. progress led to problems. Not all boats were lifted in rising tides and when the water levels are low, we all feel trapped in a daze of old glory mixed with a sense of patriotism in a past sense.. nostalgia has been replaced with anger..
Or maybe this is part of something larger. Perhaps it is simply the slow decline of small town America. Here in northeastern Pennsylvania, many towns have become hollow versions of what they once were. Industry faded. Populations shrank. Traditions quietly disappeared. There was a time when school bands filled long parade routes, floats moved through packed streets, and celebrations felt like the heartbeat of entire communities. That is not necessarily a reflection on the people living there today, but more the changing atmosphere that happens when communities slowly lose population, industry, and identity.
It was a huge deal. I graduated HS in 1976 and my memory of it is that it was mostly just a huge commercialization ploy. There was Bicentennial everything. From toothpaste to special edition cars if they could paint it red, white, and blue, they did. I have no idea the amount of “special edition” Bicentennial crap that was sold with the idea that it would someday become collectible. I suppose some of it actually did but most of it ended up in a landfill.
Another noted the interesting juxtaposition of the bicentennial right after traumatic national events.. After Vietnam and Watergate, the USA was feeling pretty down and the Spirit of 76 made people overall just feel a little better..
One more post from the Ask Old People thread:
It was pretty huge. It wasn’t just the actual birthday, but there was a big wave of subtle/not-so-subtle patriotism leading up to and continuing after 1976. It may have been fueled in part by people desperate to feel good after the turbulent 60s and getting out of Vietnam. There was certainly a lot of Red White and Blue branding going on – for example, Wonder Woman premiered in April 1976.
I’m a little concerned about 2026 – Waving a flag seems to mean something different today than it did in 1976 and it’s hard for me to picture a unified celebration.
That part rings true.. 2026, waving a flag seems to have a whole new meaning.. It seems divisive when it should not be.. It just all feels strange at the moment..
One of the scenes in television history has always been the final episode of The Wonder Years, where Kevin Arnold reflects on the closing chapter of his life in the 1960s and 1970s, including the death of his father, all while beautiful melancholy music plays against scenes of a Fourth of July celebration in his hometown. Fireworks. Americana. Family. Nostalgia. It captures it all:
I think that nostalgic view dominates how people imagine pride itself or great American celebrations. Maybe those moments really were bigger than life.
Maybe these moments never existed quite the way we imagine them, and we were simply led to believe they did. Or perhaps the truth is stranger…. those celebrations once existed exactly as we remember them, but somehow they do not exist in the same way anymore.
So how are you feeling, America?
Soaring with pride?
Or quietly drifting somewhere between nostalgia and sadness at 250?
