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Hey, Chicago, We’ve Got Exclusive Tickets to See ‘The Gorge’ Early with Director Scott Derrickson In Person!
Bloody Disgusting is giving their fans an early chance to see Apple TV+’s highly anticipated survival thriller The Gorge, right here at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre!
Join us on Sunday, February 2 at 6:00 PM CST for an exclusive screening and stick around afterwards for an in-person Q&A with director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Black Phone) and The Losers’ Club producer and co-host Randall Colburn. Seats aren’t guaranteed. This is first come, first serve, so plan to arrive early.
Doors open at 5:30 PM CST. Chicago’s Music Box Theatre is located at 3733 N Southport Ave. You can’t miss it: the towering, neon sign and bright, vintage marquee can be seen for a mile. It’s a magical sight. Also magical is the main theater’s twinkling, star-covered ceiling, all of which will pair nicely with the titular abyss and the horrors that await within on screen.
Plan accordingly and secure your spot early!
The action sci-fi horror movie with a heavy dose of romance debuts on Apple TV+ on February 14, 2025.
In The Gorge, “Two highly-trained operatives (Teller and Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy.
“When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.”
Sigourney Weaver also stars.
Miles Teller is set to executive produce in addition to starring. Zach Dean (The Tomorrow War) wrote the script. Hailing from Skydance Media, The Gorge is produced by David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger for Skydance, alongside Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Sherryl Clark through Crooked Highway as well as Adam Kolbrenner, Zach Dean and Gregory Goodman. Miles Teller executive produces.
The genre bender has been rated PG-13 for: “Intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, some suggestive material and thematic elements.”
Derrickson has been keeping busy in horror lately; the filmmaker is also directing The Black Phone 2, which will be released in October 2025.
Watch the first official trailer for The Gorge below, which introduces the unlikely pair that will fall in love…then fight for their lives against a strange new enemy.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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