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Franchise Tradition Continues With ‘Jigsaw’ Blood Drive
ALL types are welcome.
How much blood would you shed… to save a human life? Beginning with the original Saw, Lionsgate’s tie-in blood drives have become synonymous with the franchise, and we’re happy to report that this year’s brand new installment is continuing this most noble of Halloween traditions.
The franchise has to date collected 120,000 pints and saved 360,000 lives!
Over the weekend, Lionsgate’s Tim Palen announced that the forthcoming Jigsaw Blood Drive will be open to EVERYONE; the nurse-themed advertising campaign includes openly gay model Shaun Ross and transgender club diva Amanda Lepore, stressing that all types are welcome to pitch in to this particular drive.
“All Types Welcome is a condemnation of blood donation rules set by the Food and Drug Administration that prohibit most gay or bisexual men from giving; before donating, they have to forgo same-sex sexual encounters for at least a year, a contentious precaution resulting from concerns about HIV,” notes the NY Times.
The Jigsaw Blood Drive starts on October 5 in New York and expands to 25 cities in the following weeks. Donating will nab you a free ticket to see Jigsaw in theaters, as an added incentive. Locations can be found on JigsawBloodDrive.com.
Jigsaw arrives in theaters on October 27.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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