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‘Escape Room 2’ Release Moved Up To This Summer

Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room 2 has changed its release date several times. A new date has now been announced. Columbia Pictures has moved up the release from January 2022 all the way up to July 16, 2021. That’s right, it’s coming early. Escape Room‘s Logan Miller and Talyor Russell will both be returning and will star alongside Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Holland Roden (“Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block”), Indya Moore (“Pose”), Thomas Cocquerel (“The 100”), and Carlito Olivero (“East Los High”). The 2019 original film follows six strangers who participate in an escape room game, but soon learn they are locked in a game of life or death. Together they aim to solve clues and riddles in order to move from one room to the next, discovering that they must reveal their biggest secrets and work together to survive. After escaping the game, the two survivors talk about getting even which we assume will be part of the plot of the sequel.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 28, 2021

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Scott Derrickson’s ‘The Black Phone’ Scores An Early 2022 Release Date

Scott Derrickson, that is a name you should be very familiar with, after all, he is the writer-director behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Doctor Strange. Derrickson is back with the upcoming horror The Black Phone which is currently in post-production and now has an early 2022 release date! Ethan Hawke (Sinister) and James Ransone (Sinister, It: Chapter Two) lead the cast that also includes Jeremy Davies (“Hannibal”), Mason Thames (For All Mankind), and Madeleine McGraw (American Sniper). In the film, “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.” Derrickson and Robert Cargill (Bermuda, Doctor Strange,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 28, 2021

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Terror Films And FilmIsNow Team Up For The Release Of Twenty-Three Horror Films

Indie genre distributor TERROR FILMS has teamed up with YouTube AVOD platform FILMISNOW for the release of a massive slate of horror films, Twenty-three to be exact. FILMISNOW, a leading European YouTube network that encompasses ten movie-related channels. Combined, the channels have a total of over 8.5 million subscribers! They are an international company that specializes in movie-related content including production, distribution, and movie marketing – in four different languages. FILMISNOW entered the AVOD market at the beginning of 2020 and already has over 300 titles online, with more on the way. TERROR FILMS President Joe Dain spoke of this partnership recently, saying “this is one of many steps we have been taking to pave the way for more direct platform relationships, to expand our digital footprint, and to improve revenue streams for our filmmakers. This collaboration also helps us chip away at our need for 3rd party film aggregators.“ The initial launch will feature twenty-three films from this genre

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 28, 2021

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‘Sound Of Violence’ Trailer Teases Music Can Be Deadly

Following its world premiere at 2021’s SXSW, Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence is receiving its home release. Jasmin Savoy Brown (the upcoming Scream revival, HBO’s “The Leftovers”), Lili Simmons (Showtime’s “Ray Donovan”, “Banshee”, Bone Tomahawk), James Jagger (HBO’s “Vinyl”, The Outpost), and Tessa Munro (CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”) star. In the film, “Alexis recovered her hearing after witnessing the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing tones of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis’ unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won’t let anything stop her, not

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 27, 2021

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Chris Pratt Is Ready To Fight In The First Look At Amazon’s ‘The Tomorrow War’

Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) is ready to fight in the first images for the Amazon Original film The Tomorrow War, about a group of time travelers on a mission to deliver a message that could save the world and prevent a war with an alien race. “In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrives from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is a high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 27, 2021

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“Nine Perfect Strangers” Seek Help In Hulu’s New Series Starring Nicole Kidman

During the 93rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday, the first ominous trailer for “Nine Perfect Strangers” was unveiled, giving Hulu subscribers the first look at the upcoming limited series, based on the best-selling novel by Liane Moriarty. “Nine Perfect Strangers” “is set at a health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Nicole Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine “perfect” strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.” Talk about an all-star cast, the series features Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”) with the guests of the resort being played by Melissa McCarthy, Luke Evans, Regina Hall, Grace Van Patten, Bobby Cannavale, Asher Keddie, Michael Shannon, Samara Weaving, and Melvin Gregg. Hulu has yet to announce the premiere

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 27, 2021

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New ‘Berserkers’ Trailer Unleashed To Celebrate Release

Jacob Mulliken‘s high-intensity horror film Berserkers is slashing its way onto DVD and Digital today (April 27) and we’ve got a brand new trailer! Filled with horror, action, and insanity, Berserkers follows four friends who must fight for their lives when everyone in their hometown is turned into bloodthirsty maniacs, only to find themselves escaping to a post-apocalyptic wasteland as a virus slowly engulfs the world. Dave Petti (Bob Roberts), Rebecca Gruss (The Knick), and James Quinn (The Dark Knight Rises) star in Berserkers, available on DVD and Digital on April 27, 2021, from Wild Eye Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 27, 2021

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This May A Mother Fights To Save Her Child In The Horror-Thriller ‘Son’

How far would a mother go to save her child? That question is explored in writer-director Ivan Kavanagh’s (Never Grow Old, The Canal) new horror-thriller, Son, set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this May. In Son, after a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura’s home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Andi Matichak (Halloween franchise, Assimilate), Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Into the Wild, Milk), and Luke David Blumm (The King of Staten Island) star in this intense film filled with horror, mystery, about a family stalked by a cult. Son arrives on Blu-ray and DVD

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 26, 2021

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Scout Taylor-Compton Starring In 90s Style Slasher ‘Scream Bloody Murder’

Halloween‘s Scout Taylor-Compton stars in Scream Bloody Murder, a joint venture of Safier Entertainment, PhilaDreams Films, and Cult Cinema LLC. The slasher, which marks the feature directorial debut of Shawn C. Phillips, is in the vain 90s horror classics such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Compton stars alongside Robert LaSardo, James Duval, Vernon Wells, Kelly Reiter, and Lauren Francesca in Scream Bloody Murder, set to begin filming this May. Producers Jared Safier and Thomas Walton previously teamed with Scout Taylor-Compton for the upcoming studio film, Room 9. We also see the producers re-teaming with Johnny Hickey from the horror movie, Habitual. It’s going to be a love letter to 90s slasher films in the style of Scream and. The movie will also have elements of films like Mean Girls as well as Revenge of the Nerds. So it will have some humor mixed in as well to the film.” Director Shawn C. Phillips states. Will

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 26, 2021

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‘Resident Evil’s’ Constantin Films Adapting ‘The Walk’ For A Feature Film

Constantin Films, the production company behind the Resident Evil franchise, is adapting The Walk, based on Lee Goldberg’s best-selling 2004 novel of the same name, which centers on a studio executive as he makes a journey through a post-apocalyptic California. In The Walk, described as a “part-adventure, part-horror, and part-comedy,” follows TV Network Studio Executive Marty Slack, making his way from downtown LA to the San Fernando Valley to reach his wife after an apocalyptic earthquake destroys the state. During his journey, he must reluctantly team up with an “unusual traveler” to survive, Deadline reports. Wildfires rage out of control. Floodwaters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets. There’s no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he’s prepared. He’s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 26, 2021

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