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‘Superstition’: Death Comes In Threes at Cannes
Ingenious Media’s Superstition: The Rule of 3’s (formerly Superstition: Final Chance) has wrapped production in Georgia and will complete filming in Louisiana, reports Variety, who adds that BCL Finance Group has signed a deal to complete the financing package.
Directed by Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz (Martyrs), “The story takes place after two unrelated deaths occur on a university campus, with a co-ed and her friends unwittingly pulled into participating in the Dead Pool — an online game based on the superstition that death comes in threes, in which students place bets on who will die next. What starts as an immature joke soon turns to terror, when she learns her “selection” has died in an automobile accident, then discovers that her friends are being killed one by one, making her the prime suspect.”
The cast includes Amanda Cerny (The Deleted), Shad Moss, Ludacris, Lauren Alysa McClain, Terayle Hill, Taylour Paige, and Tyga. Final Destination‘s Jeffrey Reddick penned the screenplay.
The film is the first in a planned franchise of feature-length thrillers with themes of addiction to social media and technology, desensitization toward violence in a society that now runs on a 24-hour news cycle and a culture that breeds isolation, paranoia and fear.
Bassick, Cohen and Jordi Rediu will serve as producers; Laundon will exec produce.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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