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Release Date Shifts: ‘Darkest Hour’ on Christmas, ‘World War Z’ Begins a Year Later

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Summit Entertainment is pulling something strange with their alien sci-fi horror The Darkest Hour (set report from Moscow) by apparently avoiding a holiday filled with Steven Spielberg films. Originally slated to open on December 23 against Spielberg’s Adventures of Tintin, the Chris Gorak-directed 3D end of the world chiller now opens on December 25, Christmas Monday. Oddly enough, the following Friday Darkest Hour will do battle with yet another Spielberg film, War Horses, a World War 1 drama from DreamWorks. I guess they’re hoping to win the holiday “week”? I personally find this a bit odd considering the films are all aimed at different audiences. Why would you lose out on THREE days during a holiday weekend? That’s like leaving $40 million on the table – not to mention the film will still lose out to Tintin in its second week of release. Sounds beyond idiotic to me…

In other news, Paramount Pictures is raising the dead a year later as they’ve locked down a December 21, 2012 holiday release for Marc Forster’s World War Z starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale and Bryan Cranston. The pic follows United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt) as he tries to stop a global Zombie pandemic.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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