Tag: The Exorcist
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‘Exorcist: Believer’ Moves a Week Earlier to Avoid Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Film
Well, “Exorswitft” was a short-lived phenomenon; the nickname for the dual release of “The Exorcist: Believer” and Taylor Swift’s concert film is no more.That’s because Universal and Blumhouse’s spooky sequel “The Exorcist: Believer” has moved up its release date — losing its deliberately timed debut on Friday the 13 (of October) to instead land in…
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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Movie Storms Past $10 Million in Ticket Sales
Swifties around the world are still recovering from the news that Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour would be hitting theaters this October. This understandable caused much excitement across social media and forced The Exorcist: Believer to move up its release date a week early to make room for Taylor Swift’s massive fanbase. The concert film…
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First ‘Totally Killer’ Images: Kiernan Shipka Evades Blood Soaked Mayhem
Between the on-screen adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s and the first installment of David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist trilogy, Blumhouse has its hands filled with big-name tickets arriving this Halloween season. Adding yet another title to the lineup, the studio is producing Prime Video’s upcoming feature Totally Killer. Starring The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s…
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My friend Billy: Mark Kermode remembers The Exorcist director William Friedkin
The Observer film critic on his hero, who died last week aged 87, a man dedicated to telling stories his way and who had a wicked sense of humourIn his excellent 1990 biography, Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin, writer Nat Segaloff quotes the Oscar-winning film-maker as wryly observing: “You know…
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William Friedkin Wanted To Make These Projects, but Never Did
There should be no doubt that William Friedkin was one of the best filmmakers who ever lived. He crafted an all-time horror classic with The Exorcist, a crime caper for the ages with The French Connection, and used his cult classic Sorcerer as a metaphor for his thoughts about the Vietnam War. Truly, he was…
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William Friedkin’s Grimiest Movie Changed Film and TV Forever
The New Hollywood movement opened up doors for bleaker storytelling in American cinema. Specifically, it allowed, in the wake of the Hays Code dissolving, for authority figures like cops to finally be depicted as out-and-out baddies on film. The darker complexities of reality, where authority figures often become evildoers, could be brought to life on…
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The Exorcist’ Had a Real-Life Murderer in Its Cast
There are many reasons people are talking non-stop about The Exorcist again. Apart from it being one of the greatest horror movies of all time, its 50 anniversary is fast approaching, and a direct sequel, The Exorcist: Believer will hit theaters just in time for Halloween. On top of all that, it was sadly announced…
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William Friedkin, director of ‘The French Connection,’ dies at 87
The director’s latest film is set to premiere at the Venice festival.William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning American director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died aged 87.According to the New York Times, Friedkin’s wife Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures, said the filmmaker died of heart failure and pneumonia at his home…
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Remembering William Friedkin and The Exorcist, the Pinnacle of Horror
Even as the history of horror is vast and there are rather outstanding works still emerging in the present day, there are only an esteemed few as flooring as William Friedkin’s 1973 film The Exorcist. Many continue to attempt to compare themselves to what he achieved in his cinematic masterwork, but only a select few…
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Stephen King, Ellen Burstyn, and More Pay Tribute to William Friedkin
Tributes are pouring in after the passing of celebrated filmmaker William Friedkin, who was the creative genius behind fan-favorite features like The Exorcist and French Connection. With a legacy such as his, it comes as no surprise that the Oscar-winning director is in the thoughts and prayers of friends, family, and millions of fans worldwide…