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Category: horror
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THE BOX OFFICE ABOUT TO BECOME A ‘LOUD PLACE’: HORROR SAVES THE THEATER!
This could be the first $100 mil box office weekend I. A year..
Heading into this Memorial Day weekend, more than 70% of theaters are open and Hollywood has two blockbuster releases: “Cruella” and “A Quiet Place Part II.”
The last time the box office topped $100 million over the weekend was March 6, 2020. In non-pandemic times, Memorial Day weekend has averaged around $200 million in ticket sales.
It is very fitting that horror will bring back box office life again!
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Meagan Navarro WRITES:
Krasinski cites the movies that influenced both A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II, how that journey transformed him into a major horror fan, and why he now believes horror is the best medium for storytelling. “Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.”
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Horror fixing the box office!
Horror bringing life to the pandemic box office!
The newest film in the “Saw” horror franchise is expected to top the weekend box office, likely bringing in twice as much money as the top movie last weekend amid a broader rise in moviegoing!
“Spiral: From the Book of Saw,” a film from Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Twisted Pictures, is estimated to generate $14.8 million in domestic ticket sales this weekend. That’s expected to lift the overall box office, pushing it to one of its strongest weekends in 2021, according to research from Boxoffice Pro.
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Think of the children!! FACES OF DEATH getting a remake
The original claimed it was banned in 48 countries! But that didn’t stop your friend but somehow getting a hold of the VHS and sneaking your classmates into his living room to get grossed out for 113 minutes. The childhood rite of passage of the 1980s, though disjointed and horrid, is making a strange comeback.
This is how Borys Kit from the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER pens it,
Legendary Entertainment, currently basking in the box office glow of hit Godzilla vs. Kong, has picked up the rights to the title with the goal of launching a new horror franchise. Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, the team behind the 2018 psychological thriller Cam, will write and direct, respectively. Producing will be Susan Montford and Don Murphy of Angry Films, who are behind Legendary’s fast-tracked multiplatform Buck Rogers reboot, are producing. Cory Kaplan will co-produce while Rick Benattar of BT Productions will exec produce. John Burrud, the producer of the original movies, will also work on the new iteration.
The original version filmed in 1978 had the premise of traveling the world to see the most gruesome and detestable ways to perish. Death abounded in the film. .While many of the scenes of the movie were staged, it did not matter for the mostly young audience of kids in the Reagan era. And with each parental or adult warning to stay away from Faces of Death..
Much has changed since the 80s. While the revulsion of this film shocked parents who found out their kids saw it, the internet has opened the door to countless chances to see even worse. And real .. So how will the filmmakers create a new plotline that relates to our modern age of the 21st century? This is the possible plotline outlined by the Hollywood Reporter:
The new plot revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content and who herself is recovering from a serious trauma, who stumbles across a group that is re-creating the murders from the original film. But in the story primed for the digital age of online misinformation, the question is: Are the murders real or fake?
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Those who did not live through the last two decades of the 21st century may not realize how both magical and stunningly limited it was. Few who watched the Faces of Death actually knew the movie wasn’t real.. we all squirmed and closed our eyes thinking what we were seeing was some elicit footage of actual murder and death from the planet. Little did we know how amazing the marketing was even then.
At the time, the movie got awful reviews. Really, really bad reviews. But then the film made more than $35 mil in the box office and become a 30-year cult classic that most kids watched in groups secretly as they became a teenager.
The ‘banned in 40 countries’ claim probably was not true. Plus the idea that everything in the movie was real footage also was not true. But In their book Killing for Culture, authors David Kerekes and David Slater note that the movie had the inclusion of an extreme fatal accident; “the shattered remains of a cyclist are seen under a semi-tractor trailer. The camera pans long enough to capture paramedics scooping up blood clots, brain matter, and clumps of hair from the tarmac – this incident is authentic and culled from newsreels.”
The film was banned in the UK. It was banned in New Zealand. Australia refused to classify it.
One of the events that created a firestorm of controversy happened in November 1986, when a fourteen-year-old Rod Matthews bludgeoned his classmate Shaun Ouilette to death with a baseball bat. The idea to kill Ouilette was supposedly conceived after Matthews viewed Faces of Death, curious what it would be like if he were to actually kill someone..
And the rest.. was history..
The 1980s were a run time, mostly filled with antsy feelings from adults over the Satanic Panic and movies like this.
This newspaper article from 1986 shows how people were worried about teenagers being infatuated with some of the more horrendous sides of life.. An ‘expert’ quoted in the article summarized it by saying that since we live in a violent time, this is just another example of symptom of that.
Compared to our time now, some may consider this film to be tame.
But it sure wasn’t then…
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No better way to go back to the movies than with horror!
The Oscars never credit the genre.. The critics ignore it.
But so often horror unites us together.. we can scream together.. laugh together.. get angry together. And be scared together.
And after the past year, we have sure been scared. So why not do it together again in a movie theater..
A QUIET PLACE II is promising to do just that..
Emily Blunt And John Krasinski’s is paving the way for film to return to the theater.
The trailer has dropped in:
From the press:
Picking up after the chaotic events of A Quiet Place, the Paramount sequel sees the surviving members of the Abbott family leaving the comfort of the farm they called home. As creatures still stalk the wilderness, Evelyn (Emily Blunt,) Reagan (Millicent Simmonds,) and Marcus (Noah Jupe) venture into uncharted territory. With the family’s latest addition of a newborn in tow, the danger factor is just a little higher this time around, in a world where sound could equal death. The sequel also introduces some new humans (Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou,) who are still rather mysterious, but look to be forces of good, as Evelyn tries to convince them that finding other survivors is the only way to stay alive.
We have not seen numbers like this in months, but there are some indications that A QUIET PLACE II may earn as much as $60 to $80 mil Memorial Day Weekend.
After a year of shuddered theaters and closed down box offices, that is immense cash.
It will be fascinating to see how many head to theaters. Some are banking on a gigantic return on investment.. others ponder the possibilities.
But regardless of the venue, filmmakers want to makey the money.. that’s the name of the game.
So in that light, 45 days after opening A Quiet Place: Part II will be headed to Paramount +…
They have you covered. . .
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Stranger Things gets stranger at 6am! New trailer drops
Hit Netflix show Stranger Thinbs has dropped a new trailer, as promised at 6 AM. The big theme of this one shows us that “11, are you listening“ could be a theme. And also, Dr. Brenner is returning to give the children a “less than“Hit Netflix show stranger things has dropped a new trailer, as promised at 6 AM. The big theme of this one shows us that “11, are you listening“ could be a theme. And also, Dr. Brenner is returning to give the children a “lesson.”
There are a number of Internet sleuths who are trying to figure out if this trailer somehow has a hidden meaning, perhaps even the 2022 release date. Thus far no official word from Netflix or the gang from Hawkins Indiana, but it’s really cool to think of the amount of prelude footage that could’ve been filmed prior to the original show that might be utilized in this.
And don’t forget one more important player that will be in the puzzle, Robert Englund will be appearing in this season as well.
This is gearing up for one of the most anticipated release dates and programs in Netflix history and will undoubtedly cause a stir amongst those desperately trying to find every clue in every trailer that gets released.