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Box Office Updates: ‘Friday the 13th 2’ Vanishes, ‘Saw VII’ Locked Down
File this one under WTF as Warner Bros. Pictures has removed Friday the 13th Part 2 in 3D from its release calendar and has now filed it under TBD. The sequel to the Platinum Dunes remake being scripted by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift was intended to hit theaters on Friday, August 13, 2010. In other news, Lionsgate has locked down the previously rumored October 22, 2010 date for Saw VII in 3D. David Hackl (Saw V) returns to direct with a screenplay by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton. No story details have been released.
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‘They Follow’ – Jackie Earle Haley, Michael Gandolfini and More Join the ‘It Follows’ Sequel
Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and director David Robert Mitchell are reuniting for It Follows sequel They Follow, and Deadline brings us the latest casting news this week.
Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children, A Nightmare on Elm Street), Justine Lupe (Succession), Anna Mirodin (Ivan), Jayne Taini (Unbelievable), Michael Gandolfini (Daredevil: Born Again), Tom Pecinka (Stereophonic), Melora Walters (Magnolia), Ben Krieger (Song Sung Blue), Natalie Shinnick (The Brutalist) and Jan Hoag (The Fabelmans) have joined the cast this week.
Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice) has also been confirmed to join They Follow.
Deadline notes in their report this afternoon, “Plot details for the long-anticipated sequel are under wraps, other than it taking place a decade after the events of the original film.”
They Follow is expected to enter production this Summer. Stay tuned for updates.
In the first movie, Maika Monroe’s Jay Height is a young woman followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter. In the sequel, the threat is now EVERYWHERE.
“It’s very dark,” Monroe recently teased. “We’re pushing the boundaries on this one for sure.”
“It’s very different from the original,” Monroe told Discussing Film. “The original is a little more heightened and dramatic, and this is really quite grounded and follows the story of these two women that are mentally dealing with a lot. I thought it was really an interesting take on it.”
NEON and Good Fear Content are producing They Follow.
They Follow will feature a new score from Disasterpeace.


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