Filming is now underway on a creature feature titled Daddy’s Head, Deadline has revealed this morning, which comes from writer-director Benjamin Barfoot (Double Date).
“Amp is handling world sales and will be shopping the project at the upcoming European Film Market,” Deadline notes in their report.
In the film, “A boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature. Something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.”
Julia Brown (World On Fire), Rupert Turnbull (Nativity Rocks), Nathaniel Martello-White (Small Axe: Mangrove) and Charles Aitken star.
“Daddy’s Head is one of the most singularly original genre films I’ve ever read,” said executive producer James Norrie. “Combining rich and textured characters dealing with grief and the heart-breaking longing that a child experiences when losing a parent with...
“Amp is handling world sales and will be shopping the project at the upcoming European Film Market,” Deadline notes in their report.
In the film, “A boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature. Something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.”
Julia Brown (World On Fire), Rupert Turnbull (Nativity Rocks), Nathaniel Martello-White (Small Axe: Mangrove) and Charles Aitken star.
“Daddy’s Head is one of the most singularly original genre films I’ve ever read,” said executive producer James Norrie. “Combining rich and textured characters dealing with grief and the heart-breaking longing that a child experiences when losing a parent with...
- 2/9/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Production began this week on Daddy’s Head, a psychological horror from writer-director Benjamin Barfoot (Double Date).
Mathew James Wilkinson (Yesterday) produces alongside Patrick Tolan (T.I.M) for Stigma films, with finance provided by Quickfire Films, Arthro Films, Shoutloud Creative, OnSight, and Capture.
Amp is handling world sales and will be shopping the project at the upcoming European Film Market.
Executive producers are Jan Pace and James Atherton for Quickfire, M J McMahon and Matthew Jones for Capture, Simon Marriott for Shoutloud Creative, James Owen for Arthro Films, Tony Maher for OnSight, and James Norrie, Nina Kolokouri, Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh for Amp.
The film’s full synopsis reads: A boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature. Something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.
Mathew James Wilkinson (Yesterday) produces alongside Patrick Tolan (T.I.M) for Stigma films, with finance provided by Quickfire Films, Arthro Films, Shoutloud Creative, OnSight, and Capture.
Amp is handling world sales and will be shopping the project at the upcoming European Film Market.
Executive producers are Jan Pace and James Atherton for Quickfire, M J McMahon and Matthew Jones for Capture, Simon Marriott for Shoutloud Creative, James Owen for Arthro Films, Tony Maher for OnSight, and James Norrie, Nina Kolokouri, Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh for Amp.
The film’s full synopsis reads: A boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature. Something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.
- 2/9/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“Happy Death Day” has officially turned its slasher movie crossed with “Groundhog Day” premise into a franchise with “Happy Death Day 2U,” a sequel that revives the original film’s premise with a new science fiction twist.
Lead actress Jessica Rothe returns along with pretty much all of the original cast. Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews and Charles Aitken are all back, along with writer/director Christopher Landon. “Happy Death Day” is now officially a horror franchise.
The question is, then, does “Happy Death Day 2U” follow in the footsteps of so many franchise films, including some horror flicks, in including a bonus scene after or during the credits? Does “Happy Death Day 2U” get into the post-credits scene game to tease a future movie in the series?
Also Read: 'Happy Death Day 2U' Film Review: Frightfully Clever Slasher Sequel is 2 Cool 2 B Forgotten
To answer your question directly: Yes,...
Lead actress Jessica Rothe returns along with pretty much all of the original cast. Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews and Charles Aitken are all back, along with writer/director Christopher Landon. “Happy Death Day” is now officially a horror franchise.
The question is, then, does “Happy Death Day 2U” follow in the footsteps of so many franchise films, including some horror flicks, in including a bonus scene after or during the credits? Does “Happy Death Day 2U” get into the post-credits scene game to tease a future movie in the series?
Also Read: 'Happy Death Day 2U' Film Review: Frightfully Clever Slasher Sequel is 2 Cool 2 B Forgotten
To answer your question directly: Yes,...
- 2/20/2019
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Stars: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle, Phi Vu, Donna Duplantier, GiGi Erneta | Written and Directed by Christopher Landon
Director Christopher Landon, along with stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard as Tree Gelbman and Carter Davis, respectively return to the Blumhouse produced sequel of 2017′s surprise underground horror hit Happy Death Day with Happy Death Day 2U. An absurdly extravagant and absurdly evolved sequel and a film that manages to dial up an already bizarre concept to eleven and still manages to reap the benefits of a fun, entertaining venture that manages to hold its head above an overly convoluted sea of insanity and narrative confusion but only just.
Leading lady Jessica Rothe has undoubtedly cemented herself as an action horror heroine. Rothe has such splendid emotional range and depth. Crafting significant layers to a character tormented in burning agony by both past and...
Director Christopher Landon, along with stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard as Tree Gelbman and Carter Davis, respectively return to the Blumhouse produced sequel of 2017′s surprise underground horror hit Happy Death Day with Happy Death Day 2U. An absurdly extravagant and absurdly evolved sequel and a film that manages to dial up an already bizarre concept to eleven and still manages to reap the benefits of a fun, entertaining venture that manages to hold its head above an overly convoluted sea of insanity and narrative confusion but only just.
Leading lady Jessica Rothe has undoubtedly cemented herself as an action horror heroine. Rothe has such splendid emotional range and depth. Crafting significant layers to a character tormented in burning agony by both past and...
- 2/19/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stars: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle, Phi Vu, Donna Duplantier, GiGi Erneta | Written and Directed by Christopher Landon
Happy Death Day‘s inspired slasher-version-of-Groundhog-Day premise proved a surprise hit for Blumhouse Productions back in October 2017, so it’s no surprise that a sequel has followed less than two years later. With the entire cast and director Christopher Landon back on board, the sequel finds increasingly clever ways to build on the first film without just resorting to more of the same (even if “more of the same” is the entire point of a time loop movie).
Initially, Happy Death Day 2U begins by focusing on a different character, namely science student Ryan (Phi Vu) – the roommate of heroine Tree’s (Jessica Rothe) now-boyfriend Carter (Israel Broussard) – who only had variations on a one-line cameo last time round. Here it’s Ryan who finds...
Happy Death Day‘s inspired slasher-version-of-Groundhog-Day premise proved a surprise hit for Blumhouse Productions back in October 2017, so it’s no surprise that a sequel has followed less than two years later. With the entire cast and director Christopher Landon back on board, the sequel finds increasingly clever ways to build on the first film without just resorting to more of the same (even if “more of the same” is the entire point of a time loop movie).
Initially, Happy Death Day 2U begins by focusing on a different character, namely science student Ryan (Phi Vu) – the roommate of heroine Tree’s (Jessica Rothe) now-boyfriend Carter (Israel Broussard) – who only had variations on a one-line cameo last time round. Here it’s Ryan who finds...
- 2/14/2019
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
(from left) Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, Israel Broussard as Carter and Phi Vu as Ryan in “Happy Death Day 2U,” written and directed by Christopher Landon. Photo Credit: Michele K. Short/Universal Pictures. © 2019 Universal Studios
In time for Valentine’s Day comes Happy Death Day 2U, a sequel to the 2017 horror/comedy Happy Death Day. College student Tree (Jessica Rothe) is back for another day of repeated deaths, but this time it is someone else stuck in the loop of a repeated day. Nonetheless, it is still fierce sorority girl Tree, who went through this before, who must solve the mystery and stop the murderous loop.
Audiences don’t really have to have seen the original to follow the story in the sequel, as Happy Death Day 2U provides a quick little recap of the first film, as Tree explains the situation to the new guy caught in the death day time loop.
In time for Valentine’s Day comes Happy Death Day 2U, a sequel to the 2017 horror/comedy Happy Death Day. College student Tree (Jessica Rothe) is back for another day of repeated deaths, but this time it is someone else stuck in the loop of a repeated day. Nonetheless, it is still fierce sorority girl Tree, who went through this before, who must solve the mystery and stop the murderous loop.
Audiences don’t really have to have seen the original to follow the story in the sequel, as Happy Death Day 2U provides a quick little recap of the first film, as Tree explains the situation to the new guy caught in the death day time loop.
- 2/13/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As a lifelong devotee of the slasher subgenre, Christopher Landon’s Happy Death Day was one of my favorite horror films of 2017, as its infectious charms and clever approach to mixing up the formula we’ve come to expect engrained itself deeply into my genre-loving soul. When a sequel was announced, I was thrilled and excited—naturally—but part of me wondered if the follow-up would succumb to sequelitis and give us fans just more of the same, especially considering how much this concept of looping time was a part of Happy Death Day’s story. But leave it to writer/director Christopher Landon to come up with a brilliant approach to figuring out how you give fans more of what they loved about the original, but still drastically change things up with Happy Death Day 2U, making it one of the most innovative and surprising sequels to come out in years.
- 2/12/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Everyone knows that Christopher Landon’s 2017 surprise hit “Happy Death Day” — a funny, fresh “Groundhog Day” for the horror set — chronicled the fallout of a screwy timeline loop that impacted just one person, but what “Happy Death Day 2U” presupposes is, what if that’s not true? At least, that’s how Landon’s sequel starts, approaching the repeating-day trope that drove the first film, imagining that another student of Bayfield University is stuck in a loop that restarts only after they befall a gruesome death. It’s a fine enough idea, but from the start, Landon’s own script is at odds with its aims, understanding too late that it detracts from what’s always been the best part of the newly minted franchise: star Jessica Rothe.
While the film’s opening scenes make it appear as if this iteration will focus on Carter’s (Israel Broussard) spacey roommate...
While the film’s opening scenes make it appear as if this iteration will focus on Carter’s (Israel Broussard) spacey roommate...
- 2/12/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Babyface is back! Happy Death Day 2U, the Groundhog Day of the Dead Slasher from Blumhouse is back for a sequel and DaniElle DeLaite talked to Jessica Rothe (Tree Gelbman), Israel Broussard (Carter Davies), writer/director Chris Landon and producer Jason Blum about the new film.
The film also stars Phi Vu, Rachel Matthews, Ruby Modine, Suraj Sharma, Charles Aitken and Steve Zissis.
Happy Death Day 2 U is out on the 13th of February, 2019. Here’s the interview.
Plot:
Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
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The film also stars Phi Vu, Rachel Matthews, Ruby Modine, Suraj Sharma, Charles Aitken and Steve Zissis.
Happy Death Day 2 U is out on the 13th of February, 2019. Here’s the interview.
Plot:
Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
The post Happy Death Day 2U Exclusive: Jessica Rothe, Jason Blum & more on the horror sequel appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 2/11/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Failure is not an option." The very first trailer of 2019 is a new trailer for this horror sequel. Universal Pictures has debuted the second official trailer for Happy Death Day 2U, Blumhouse's highly-anticipated sequel to their time-loop horror hit from last year Happy Death Day. Once again directed (and written) by Christopher Landon, the film continues with the hero discovering that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. Jessica Rothe also returns as Tree, with a full cast including Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Suraj Sharma, Steve Zissis, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Sarah Yarkin, and Caleb Spillyards. This actually looks pretty damn good - I think I need to do a double feature and watch both of these in February. And with that - Happy New Year! Let's get excited about 2019 movies. Here's the second official trailer for Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day 2U, direct...
- 1/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"I thought I ended the loop... But I'm back!" Universal Pictures has debuted the first full-length trailer for Happy Death Day 2U, Blumhouse's highly-anticipated sequel to their time-loop horror hit from last year Happy Death Day. Once again directed (and written) by Christopher Landon, the film continues with the hero discovering that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. Jessica Rothe also returns as Tree Gelbman, with a full cast including Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Suraj Sharma, Steve Zissis, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Sarah Yarkin, and Caleb Spillyards. This looks like a way more aggressive, intense version of the original, because she gets caught in yet another loop. But it's that sci-tech contraption at the end that really got my attention. What is that? Gotta find out. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day 2U, direct from YouTube: Jessica...
- 11/30/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Joseph Baxter Jan 18, 2019
Blumhouse horror sequel Happy Death Day 2U ups the ante and meta-minded horror, setting up a bloody Valentine's Day.
Happy Death Day may not have broken the box office with Avengers: Infinity War level might, but the Groundhog Day-influenced 2017 Blumhouse horror flick managed to achieve something impressive in its own right, manifesting as a big bang for the studio’s buck, with the micro-budgeted ($4.8 million) movie managing to reap $55.6 million at the domestic box office, which adds to a total of $122.6 million worldwide. Consequently, sequel prospects quickly glistened like frosting on a Happy Death Day 2U cupcake.
The sequel, titled Happy Death Day 2U, saw original film helmer Christopher B. Landon back in the director's chair, this time working off his own script. He's joined by a returning producer in studio head Jason Blum. Angela Mancuso and John Baldecchi return as executive producers, joined this time by Samson Mucke.
Blumhouse horror sequel Happy Death Day 2U ups the ante and meta-minded horror, setting up a bloody Valentine's Day.
Happy Death Day may not have broken the box office with Avengers: Infinity War level might, but the Groundhog Day-influenced 2017 Blumhouse horror flick managed to achieve something impressive in its own right, manifesting as a big bang for the studio’s buck, with the micro-budgeted ($4.8 million) movie managing to reap $55.6 million at the domestic box office, which adds to a total of $122.6 million worldwide. Consequently, sequel prospects quickly glistened like frosting on a Happy Death Day 2U cupcake.
The sequel, titled Happy Death Day 2U, saw original film helmer Christopher B. Landon back in the director's chair, this time working off his own script. He's joined by a returning producer in studio head Jason Blum. Angela Mancuso and John Baldecchi return as executive producers, joined this time by Samson Mucke.
- 3/16/2018
- Den of Geek
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Happy Death Day (horror; Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Laura Clifton; rated PG-13) Blade Runner 2049 (sci-fi adventure; Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, Jared Leto; rated R) The Lucky Man (action; Jesse James, Mariana Paola Vicente; rated R) Same Kind of Different As Me (drama; Greg Kinnear, Renee Zellweger; rated PG-13) The Snowman (mystery-thriller...
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- 1/16/2018
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
Chicago – “Happy Death Day” has a “Groundhog Day” gimmick, but that’s about it, offering essentially an ‘80’s style slasher flick with the hope that with a little cosmetic window dressing will help it appeal to an audience in 2017… Live, Die, Repeat. That’s all this film offers with precious few improvements to justify its existence.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The story, such as it is, involves a self obsessed sorority sister named Tree (Jessica Rothe). She acts the way sorority sisters always do in movies like this, meaning she’s a bitch with a capital B, mean to her roommate, sleeps with her married professor, rude to her own father, and seems to live her life aiming for “Mean Girls” type perfection. She begins the day waking up in the dorm room of a college boy (Israel Broussard) she met after a few too many drinks the night before, and ends her...
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The story, such as it is, involves a self obsessed sorority sister named Tree (Jessica Rothe). She acts the way sorority sisters always do in movies like this, meaning she’s a bitch with a capital B, mean to her roommate, sleeps with her married professor, rude to her own father, and seems to live her life aiming for “Mean Girls” type perfection. She begins the day waking up in the dorm room of a college boy (Israel Broussard) she met after a few too many drinks the night before, and ends her...
- 10/14/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blumhouse’s spunky time-loop thriller Happy Death Day plays like a CW-ized Edge Of Tomorrow rehash with the heart of Scream Queens – except, like, totally without self-awareness. Whether Christopher Landon’s vision takes itself too seriously, not serious enough or just plain skimps on horror, Scott Lobdell’s story is basic with a capital “Blah.” That’s not to say fun isn’t had, it’s just all a collegiate Mean Girls schtick that never matches up to university slaughterers like Sorority Row. For a movie about temporal anomalies and never-ending birthday horrors, there’s something unjustly mundane about a glorified slasher drama without the decency to get wild with kills. Not that its PG-13 rating would dare show such bloodshed anyway…
Jessica Rothe stars as Tree Gelbman, a Kappa sorority girl who wakes up in Carter Davis’ (Israel Broussard) dumpy dorm room after yet another drunken blackout. She scurries...
Jessica Rothe stars as Tree Gelbman, a Kappa sorority girl who wakes up in Carter Davis’ (Israel Broussard) dumpy dorm room after yet another drunken blackout. She scurries...
- 10/11/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new horror film “Happy Death Day” from horror producer Jason Blum!
“Happy Death Day,” which opens on Oct. 13, 2017 and is rated “R,” stars Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken and Laura Clifton from director Christopher Landon, writer Scott Lobdell and horror producer Jason Blum (the producer of “Get Out,” “The Purge” and “The Visit”). Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Happy Death Day” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds...
“Happy Death Day,” which opens on Oct. 13, 2017 and is rated “R,” stars Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken and Laura Clifton from director Christopher Landon, writer Scott Lobdell and horror producer Jason Blum (the producer of “Get Out,” “The Purge” and “The Visit”). Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Happy Death Day” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds...
- 10/9/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blumhouse (Split, Get Out, Whiplash) produces an “original and inventive rewinding thriller” in Happy Death Day, in which a college student (Jessica Rothe) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. Er… original and inventive? Maybe not. Has anyone at Blumhouse seen Blood Punch?
Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and written by Scott Lobdell and Landon. The film also stars Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, and Laura Clifton. If you haven’t seen the trailer and poster yet, you can check them out right here.
Happy Death Day is released in cinemas on Friday 13th October (of course!)...
Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and written by Scott Lobdell and Landon. The film also stars Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, and Laura Clifton. If you haven’t seen the trailer and poster yet, you can check them out right here.
Happy Death Day is released in cinemas on Friday 13th October (of course!)...
- 9/22/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Jessica Rothe is ready to live, die, repeat in Happy Death Day, the latest stab at youth-oriented horror from Blumhouse. Looking like a giddy combination of Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, the Final Destination series and a few generic slasher movies tossed in for good measure, Happy Death Day follows a young woman named Tree (just go with it), played by Rothe, who keeps re-living the same day over and over again. As if that weren’t annoying enough to begin with, it also happens to be the day in which she’s murdered by a masked killer. The only apparent way to get out of the loop is to stop the murderer once and for all.
Directed by Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones helmer Christopher Landon, Happy Death Day also stars Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews and Charles Aitken. See if you can survive the Happy Death Day trailer,...
Directed by Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones helmer Christopher Landon, Happy Death Day also stars Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews and Charles Aitken. See if you can survive the Happy Death Day trailer,...
- 6/17/2017
- by Chris Evangelista
- The Film Stage
Blumhouse (Split, Get Out, Whiplash) produces an “original and inventive rewinding thriller” in Happy Death Day, in which a college student (Jessica Rothe) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. Er… original and inventive? Maybe not. Has anyone at Blumhouse seen Blood Punch?
Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and written by Scott Lobdell and Landon. The film also stars Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, and Laura Clifton. Check out the first trailer and poster below:...
Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and written by Scott Lobdell and Landon. The film also stars Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, and Laura Clifton. Check out the first trailer and poster below:...
- 6/15/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
"I've already lived through this day! Somebody's going to kill me tonight..." Universal has unveiled the first full-length trailer for a new original horror movie titled Happy Death Day, formerly/also known as Half to Death while it was still in development. Directed by Christopher Landon, the time-loop horror story is about a college student who relives the day of her murder until she finds out who the killer is. The film stars Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle, and Phi Vu. I'm always interested in time-loop movies (and we already had one this year - Before I Fall) and this looks like a fun horror twist on the concept. I want to see how she solves her own murder. Dive in. Here's the full-length trailer for Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day, direct from YouTube: Blumhouse produces an original and inventive rewinding thriller in Happy Death Day,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Happy Death Day Trailer Christopher Landon‘s Happy Death Day (2017) movie trailer stars Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, and Charles Aitken. Happy Death Day‘s plots synopsis: “A college student Tree (Jessica Rothe, La La Land) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she [...]
Continue reading: Happy Death Day (2017) Movie Trailer: A Groundhog Day Horror Film That Looks Hilarious...
Continue reading: Happy Death Day (2017) Movie Trailer: A Groundhog Day Horror Film That Looks Hilarious...
- 6/15/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
With two movies earning way more than $100 million at the U.S. box office — “Split” and “Get Out” — Blumhouse is already having one hell of a 2017. But could it have another horror blockbuster on its hands? They very well could with “Happy Death Day,” a college-set horror film that puts a murderous spin on the “Groundhog Day” plot device.
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Jessica Rothe plays a college student who is murdered on the night of her birthday, but every time she dies she simply wakes up and starts the same day over again. Only when she finds out the identity of the killer will her never-ending cycle of death come to an end. Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Israel Broussard and Rachel Matthew co-star.
“Happy Death Day” is directed and co-written by Christopher Landon, who last worked with...
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Jessica Rothe plays a college student who is murdered on the night of her birthday, but every time she dies she simply wakes up and starts the same day over again. Only when she finds out the identity of the killer will her never-ending cycle of death come to an end. Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Israel Broussard and Rachel Matthew co-star.
“Happy Death Day” is directed and co-written by Christopher Landon, who last worked with...
- 6/15/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
"Am I in a dorm?!" Universal has debuted a very short teaser trailer for a new original horror movie titled Happy Death Day, formerly/also known as Half to Death while it was still in development. Directed by filmmaker Christopher Landon, the time-loop horror story is about a college student who relives the day of her murder until she finds out who the killer is. The film stars Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle, and Phi Vu. I'm always quite curious about time-loop movies (and we already had one this year - Before I Fall) and this one looks like it might be fun, taking us back to the days of Scream. The full trailer drops on Wednesday, until then - check out this tease. Here's the first teaser trailer for Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day, direct from YouTube: Blumhouse produces an original...
- 6/12/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Before “The Knick” scatters its characters to the four winds, Steven Soderbergh offers one last, literal reminder that he thinks outside the box. When coarse ambulance driver Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) seeks counsel from a priest, his feet protrude from the confessional, and though his voice remains as sharp as if he were beside us, Soderbergh replaces the traditional depiction of penance—faint light filtering through the partition, illuminating a face wracked by guilt—with a far more ambiguous one.
Via a series of long, still compositions, venturing into the barren aisles and empty pews, the camera edges toward the opposite end of the cavernous nave, returning to the image of the Irishman’s shoes only when he reaches his reason for being there. In his slightly forlorn brogue, Cleary asks for a prayer that the disgraced Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) accept his hand in marriage: He wants her to be his wife,...
Via a series of long, still compositions, venturing into the barren aisles and empty pews, the camera edges toward the opposite end of the cavernous nave, returning to the image of the Irishman’s shoes only when he reaches his reason for being there. In his slightly forlorn brogue, Cleary asks for a prayer that the disgraced Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) accept his hand in marriage: He wants her to be his wife,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
Meet Crane’s kindred spirit — in Benjamin Franklin-hating, if nothing else.
Sleepy Hollow has cast The Knick‘s Charles Aitken as the founding father’s arch enemy, TVLine has learned exclusively.
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Per the official character description — which you first read about in a recent Ask Ausiello — Dr. Japeth Leeds is “a twisted, mysteriously brooding genius” whose talents include alchemy. But he becomes so obsessed with besting Franklin that he turns to the Dark Arts.
Crane and Leeds come face to face again in modern-day Sleepy Hollow, after Ichabod learns that the doctor “paid the...
Sleepy Hollow has cast The Knick‘s Charles Aitken as the founding father’s arch enemy, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Photos Cancellation Jitters: 8 Shows in Danger
Per the official character description — which you first read about in a recent Ask Ausiello — Dr. Japeth Leeds is “a twisted, mysteriously brooding genius” whose talents include alchemy. But he becomes so obsessed with besting Franklin that he turns to the Dark Arts.
Crane and Leeds come face to face again in modern-day Sleepy Hollow, after Ichabod learns that the doctor “paid the...
- 12/24/2015
- TVLine.com
Though the first season of The Knick attracted some very positive reviews, the series drew very low ratings. Cinemax brought it back for a second season anyway. Will the numbers go up this time around? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a third season? Stay tuned.
The second season of The Knick continues to follow the troubled professional and personal life of Dr. John W. Thackery (Clive Owen), a physician who works at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York in the early 1900s. The rest of the cast includes Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown, Grainger Hines, Zaraah Abrahams, Charles Aitken, Latonya Borsay, Rachel Korine, Tom Lipinski, and Michael Nathanson.
Below are the show's TV ratings, typically the best way to tell if the series will...
The second season of The Knick continues to follow the troubled professional and personal life of Dr. John W. Thackery (Clive Owen), a physician who works at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York in the early 1900s. The rest of the cast includes Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown, Grainger Hines, Zaraah Abrahams, Charles Aitken, Latonya Borsay, Rachel Korine, Tom Lipinski, and Michael Nathanson.
Below are the show's TV ratings, typically the best way to tell if the series will...
- 12/22/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 7, “Williams and Walker”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
After four straight weeks of steady quality, it’s not much of a surprise how The Knick flounders away its seventeenth hour, but that doesn’t make it any less disappointing. When compared to the showstopping turn which occupied this same spot during the last season, the magnificent and racially charged “Get the Rope”, “Williams and Walker” becomes even more of a sore spot. If this were merely a recap, it could be summed up in a matter of two paragraphs or less but as it is not, let us dig into the meddling meat of The Knick‘s latest.
The central problem is first and foremost that not a lot happens here, especially considering the 57 minute run time. The Knick has had far better...
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
After four straight weeks of steady quality, it’s not much of a surprise how The Knick flounders away its seventeenth hour, but that doesn’t make it any less disappointing. When compared to the showstopping turn which occupied this same spot during the last season, the magnificent and racially charged “Get the Rope”, “Williams and Walker” becomes even more of a sore spot. If this were merely a recap, it could be summed up in a matter of two paragraphs or less but as it is not, let us dig into the meddling meat of The Knick‘s latest.
The central problem is first and foremost that not a lot happens here, especially considering the 57 minute run time. The Knick has had far better...
- 11/28/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 6, “There Are Rules”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
After a veritable barrage of bad news over the last few weeks, The Knick seems to be on a more redemptive arc this week, and it’s a nice change of pace. This season has undoubtedly been stronger than the first, but it’s also been a lot rougher. “There Are Rules”gives us a small break from that kind of punishment, as it mixes in a bit more good to go with the bad.
The episode opens with Thackery (Clive Owen) trying to broaden his horizons at a sort of carnival-bazaar, where he bears witness to the thrills and thralls of hypnosis, as well as the rare medical occurrence of Siamese twins. While the hypnosis track leads to another great comedic touch when Cleary...
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
After a veritable barrage of bad news over the last few weeks, The Knick seems to be on a more redemptive arc this week, and it’s a nice change of pace. This season has undoubtedly been stronger than the first, but it’s also been a lot rougher. “There Are Rules”gives us a small break from that kind of punishment, as it mixes in a bit more good to go with the bad.
The episode opens with Thackery (Clive Owen) trying to broaden his horizons at a sort of carnival-bazaar, where he bears witness to the thrills and thralls of hypnosis, as well as the rare medical occurrence of Siamese twins. While the hypnosis track leads to another great comedic touch when Cleary...
- 11/21/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
Not to get too political or even too sensitive, but on Friday night, just a few days after bombings in Beirut and during bloody and gruesome terrorist attacks on Paris, it was a little difficult to watch Cinemax’s “The Knick.” When a subway explosion went off in the New York City of 1901, the Knickbocker hospital was littered and overflowed with a continuous stream of bloodied bodies. It’s drama of course, and nothing to do with terrorist acts, but the maimed body count, and extreme level of panic and chaos certainly added an extra chilling layer to the evening’s episode. The accidental subway explosion is of course the same subway plan that Henry Robertson (Charles Aitken) has secretly invested into without his father, Captain August Robertson’s (Grainger Hines), knowledge. There’s something percolating here too with the Robertson’s and their money. Henry wants to sell a...
- 11/16/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The Knick, Season 2, Episode 5, “Whiplash”
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
As I’ve been noting throughout The Knick‘s entire run, this is a show with a shocking propensity for gruesome imagery, and “Whiplash” is the most egregious and stomach-churning example to date.
Of particular note is a series of scenes that shows Thackery (Clive Owen) pulling back the protective layer which covers the brain and prodding it with a series of electrical currents in order to stimulate certain areas of the brain. It’s worth mentioning, of course, that the patient is alive and awake during the process. While the brain feels no pain, as Thackery reminds his fellow doctors, the scene is particularly disturbing when Thackery exploits the patient’s emotions to demonstrate the operation of the brain. While forceps dangle with scalp tissue firmly clasped,...
Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax
As I’ve been noting throughout The Knick‘s entire run, this is a show with a shocking propensity for gruesome imagery, and “Whiplash” is the most egregious and stomach-churning example to date.
Of particular note is a series of scenes that shows Thackery (Clive Owen) pulling back the protective layer which covers the brain and prodding it with a series of electrical currents in order to stimulate certain areas of the brain. It’s worth mentioning, of course, that the patient is alive and awake during the process. While the brain feels no pain, as Thackery reminds his fellow doctors, the scene is particularly disturbing when Thackery exploits the patient’s emotions to demonstrate the operation of the brain. While forceps dangle with scalp tissue firmly clasped,...
- 11/14/2015
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
I spent much of the first season of "The Knick" wondering why Steven Soderbergh had chosen this, of all shows, to be his next passion project. Here was an Oscar-winning director, doing his first TV project in a decade (following HBO's short-lived "K Street"), understandably being given carte blanche by Cinemax to direct, shoot, and edit every episode himself, and he had for some reason picked a show with a relatively novel setting (a New York hospital circa 1900) but filled with stock characters, including a drug-addled anti-hero in Clive Owen's surgeon John Thackery, and other devices familiar from the last 15 years of cable drama. It looked fantastic and had great performances from Owen, Andre Holland (as a black surgeon whose skills aren't properly appreciated in a less enlightened era), and others, but it was hard to shake the feeling that the writing (mainly by creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler...
- 10/15/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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