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‘Paranormal Activity’ Franchise to Conclude Where it All Began… At Screamfest!
In some very cool news via Heat Vision, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension will premiere as the closing night of the Screamfest Horror Film Festival, playing in RealD 3D at the TCL Chinese Theatre Thursday, October 22, the day before its wide release.
What makes this so special is that Screamfest hosted the World Premiere of Oren Peli’s indie Paranormal Activity, where it was acquired, retooled, and eventually released through Paramount Pictures to great success.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is to be the final film in the franchise (for now), making this Screamfest premiere extra special, especially for those loyal festival goers who were there in 2007 for the first film’s debut.
“We are thrilled to have the Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension premiere close this year’s festival,” said Screamfest founder and festival director Rachel Belofsky. “We are so proud of Oren Peli and his success with the franchise. It’s great to have him back in the festival where it all began.”
The original movie, which Peri wrote and directed, had a platform release via “Demand It” fan screenings before going wide in 2009. In a nod to the importance of fans to the franchise, Screamfest, in a first, will simultaneously screen the movie in those original 12 markets
The markets include: Ann Arbor, MI; Baton Rouge, LA; Boulder, CO; Columbus, OH; Durham, NC; Lincoln, NE; Madison, WI; Orlando, FL; Santa Cruz, CA; Seattle, WA; State College, PA; and Tucson, AZ.
“It’s incredibly exciting, and somewhat surreal, to premiere the final installment of the Paranormal series at Screamfest where the first film premiered eight years ago,” said Peli “These films continued to be made because of the incredible fans that supported them from the very beginning, so I look forward to bringing the series back to its roots to honor them.”
Screamfest runs October 13 to October 22. Ghost Dimension is set to open October 23.
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‘The Whisper Man’ Official Poster – Netflix Serial Killer Thriller Stars Robert De Niro & Adam Scott
If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken. That’s the official tagline for The Whisper Man, a new serial killer thriller coming to Netflix next month.
Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Robert De Niro star in The Whisper Man. Based on Alex North‘s 2019 novel of the same name, the film will stream on August 28.
Check out the official poster below and expect the trailer soon.
In the film, “When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as The Whisper Man.”
The stacked cast also includes Michael Keaton, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Will Brill, and Acston Luca Porto.
James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen) directs Netflix’s upcoming movie The Whisper Man from a script by Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and Chase Palmer (IT).
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco, and Kassee Whiting produce the thriller for AGBO (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Extraction).
The Whisper Man is Rated R for “some bloody violence, disturbing images, suicide, language, and brief sexual references.”
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