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New Image from Next Year’s ‘The Grudge’ Catches a Glimpse of Something Horrifying
The Grudge is set to bring the franchise back to life on January 3, 2020, and director Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of My Mother, Piercing), producer Sam Raimi and stars Betty Gilpin (“Glow”) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) all took part in a panel at New York Comic Con today to preview and promote the film. In the wake of the NYCC panel, a new image has been released.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any of the video shown off at NYCC will be making its way online, but you can at least check out the spooky shot below. What are we looking at here?!
“I never get to be this fucked up in a movie,” Lin Shaye teased during the panel. Raimi noted, “The key is injecting new life through performers and a director of this caliber.”
In the new movie, which takes place during the events of The Grudge 2004, “A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.”
The cast also includes Andrea Riseborough, John Cho, Demián Bichir and Jacki Weaver.
The Broadway stage production of Paranormal Activity can’t wait to scare audiences and is acting accordingly; Deadline reports that the opening date has been bumped up several weeks.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage is coming to Broadway for a limited 20-week engagement. The first preview performance scheduled for Friday, August 14, at the August Wilson Theatre, remains in place. Now the play will officially open on Tuesday, August 25, moving up from its initial September 15 launch date.
The official synopsis: “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.”
Directed by Felix Barrett and written by playwright Levi Holloway, the stage show weaves “an original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30.
Both the Broadway and Boston casts will feature Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran, and Andrea Syglowski. Understudies will be Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding.
Álvarez will play Lou, and Knight plays James.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage premiered at the Leeds Playhouse in the UK before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, where it received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination this year for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Original Paranormal Activity stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat attended the Paranormal Activity play last year, and they both shared their thoughts over on Instagram.
Katie Featherston raved, “What a truly fun night seeing the new Paranormal Activity at the Ahmanson Theatre! We had a blast- so scary and so fun. The design and production was amazing and the cast did a fantastic job. Congrats to all involved!”
There’s also a brand new movie on the way.
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