Tag: Escape Room
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Box Office Predictions: Night Swim to continue strong January horror trend
Traditionally the first month of the year has been a dumping ground as studios have steered clear of the residual glow of the holiday blockbusters and the prestige films audiences try to catch up on before the awards begin to air. January may not be the best time to launch your new $300 million budgeted…
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‘Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’ Set for China Cinema Release
Columbia Pictures’ 2021 horror-thriller “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” has been given official approval to release in cinemas in mainland China. It will launch on Saturday April 2, 2022.Directed by Adam Robitel, it is the sequel to the psychological thriller “Escape Room” that terrified audiences around the world in 2019. In the new installment, six…
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Isabelle Fuhrman Had ‘Free Rein’ With Her Performance In Orphan: First Kill [Exclusive]
In Lauren Hadaway’s “The Novice,” Isabelle Furhman plays an obsessed collegiate rower who will do anything to rise to the top, a role that makes heavy demands of anyone brave enough to step into it. /Film’s own Shania Russell sat down with Furhman (“Escape Room“) to talk about “The Novice” and Furhman’s dedication to the…
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‘Escape Room 2’ First Look: The Deadly Game Expands in a ‘Tournament of Champions’
After being made on a budget of just $9 million, the suspenseful puzzle thriller Escape Room went on to be a major box office success, raking in over $155 million worldwide. That was more than enough for Sony Pictures to get a sequel off the ground immediately, and now we’re finally getting a hint at…
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‘Escape Room 2’ Moves Up Release to July
“Escape Room 2” has moved up its release to July.The sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller will now debut on July 16, 2021, nearly six months earlier than its planned release date of Jan. 7, 2022.With the box office beginning to revive after the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s possible that “Escape Room 2” moved up in…
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‘No Escape’ Trailer: It’s ‘Saw’ Meets ‘Escape Room’ in Gory Social Media-Themed Thriller
If you stick a social media star in a torture room, does he make a noise? A lot of noises, and most of them violent screams, according to the No Escape trailer, a new film from the director of Escape Room. No, not the hit 2019 film, an earlier, little-seen 2017 film directed by Will…
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‘The Grudge’ Remake Scares Up $1.8 Million at Thursday Box Office
“The Grudge,” Sony’s horror remake of the 2004 box office hit, kicked off the new year by bringing in $1.8 million at the Thursday box office from 2,393 screens. It opens on 2,642 screens this weekend.“The Grudge” is the first and only new wide release of 2020 so far, and Sony’s Screen Gems is predicting…
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Sequel Bits: ‘Bond’, ‘Fast and Furious’, ‘Bad Boys’, ‘Avatar’, ‘Zombieland’, ‘Tremors’, ‘Escape Room’, ‘Dogma’
In this edition of Sequel Bits: Phoebe Waller-Bridge might come back to write Bond 26. The Dwayne Johnson/Vin Diesel Furious feud has apparently ended. Bad Boys For Life gets a poster. James Cameron really is still making those Avatar sequels, and there’s an image to prove it! A
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‘Escape Room’ Director Teams With Sam Raimi For New Supernatural Thriller
Escape Room looked like little more than a cheap Saw knock-off on paper, but the finished product turned out to be surprisingly fun. Now, Escape Room director Adam Robitel has caught the attention of Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert and their Ghost House Pictures, who will produce Robitel’s new untitled supernatural thriller for Escape Room…
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Rock Salt Releasing Picks Up World Rights to South African Horror ‘8’ (Exclusive)
Cannes — Rock Salt Releasing has acquired world sales rights for South African director Harold Hölscher’s “8,” a horror film that plays on African folklore and mythology to tell a dark story of atonement.Produced by Man Makes A Picture with Rolling Thunder, pic stars Tsamano Sebe (“Of Good Report”), Inge Beckmann (“Escape Room”), Garth Breytenbach…