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Warner Bros. Has Launched an Academy Awards Campaign for ‘IT’

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Why the hell not, right?!

Andy Muschietti’s IT has proven to be a monster at the box office, as well as a critical hit, but what’s the cap to the film’s smash hit success? Will it win any Academy Awards?!

Well, we won’t know if it’s even nominated in any categories until next year, but we do know that Warner Bros. has just launched a “For Your Consideration” campaign for this year’s most successful horror movie. Along with Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The LEGO Batman Movie and Wonder Woman, WB wants Academy members to consider IT.

The studio is asking IT to be considered for the following categories:

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Supporting Actress – Sophia Lillis
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Production Design
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Sound Editing
  • Best Sound Mixing
  • Best Makeup & Hairstyling
  • Best Original Score

Of course, it’s rare for horror movies to even be nominated, but the recent Oscars success of Mad Max: Fury Road has shown that the Academy is beginning to step outside the box and honor more genre fare. And given just how good IT is, we expect it’ll be nominated in *at least* one of these categories next year.

Granted, we don’t expect it’ll get a Best Picture nomination, but at the very least, a Best Makeup & Hairstyling nomination, and possible win, seems both fair and likely.

We’re pulling for you, Pennywise!

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ Rated “R” for “Horror Violence” and “Language”

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April 24, 2024

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We are now less than one month away from the release of Lionsgate’s The Strangers: Chapter 1, the first film in a brand new reboot trilogy from director Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master, Deep Blue Sea). It’s coming to theaters May 17, 2024.

The Strangers: Chapter 1 has officially been rated “R” this week for…

“Horror violence, language and brief drug use.”

For the sake of comparison, Bryan Bertino’s original home invasion film was rated “R” for “violence/terror,” while Prey at Night was rated “R” for “horror violence and terror throughout.”

Madelaine Petsch (“Riverdale”), Froy Gutierrez (Hocus Pocus 2), Rachel Shenton (The Silent Child), Ema Horvath (“Rings of Power”) and Gabe Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) star.

Based on the original 2008 cult horror franchise, the project features Petsch, who drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.

Here’s the full official synopsis: “After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.”

Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2) is directing from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (The Freak Brothers, Due Date). Lionsgate will distribute worldwide.

The Strangers began in 2008 with Bryan Bertino’s original home invasion horror movie, a terrifying film that introduced three masked killers who returned 10 years later with The Strangers: Prey at Night in 2018. The first film took place in a remote house in the woods while the sequel brought the murderous Man in the Mask, Dollface and Pinup Girl into a trailer park.

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