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Chiwetel Ejiofor & Renate Reinsve Get Liminal on ‘Backrooms’ Posters; Trailer Tomorrow
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Venom: The Last Dance) and Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) are trapped in the Backrooms on a pair of posters for the liminal horror film.
In the movie, a strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. Discover more in the trailer tomorrow.
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired viral video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date. Will Soodik (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”) penned the script.
Mark Duplass (Creep), Finn Bennett (“True Detective: Night Country”), Lukita Maxwell (“Shrinking”), and Avan Jogia (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City) round out the cast.
A24 produces alongside James Wan’s Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment, and 21 Laps Entertainment.
Backrooms will be released in theaters May 29 via A24. Keep an eye on Bloody Disgusting tomorrow for the trailer.
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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