“See you at the Oscars,” Richard Brener, President & Chief Creative Officer of New Line Cinema, joked Tuesday at CinemaCon, where Warner Bros showed an extended seven-minute look at Final Destination: Bloodlines. “Two brother think they have to figure out a way to thwart Death,” Brener said. “What could go wrong?” Oscar maybe not, but there’s a lot of hope for the first Final Destination in 14 years: The pic’s trailer ranks as the second most watched for a horror movie after It with 178.7 million global views.
The Final Destination franchise through five movies counts more than $660M at the global box office. The long look at the fan-favorite franchise tonight sees peanut-allergic Bobby Campbell attempting to retrieve a peanut butter cup from a hospital vending machine urged on by his brother, who plans to revive him. “If I am going out, it’s not going be on those unsalted bitches,” Bobby said, rejecting Erik’s first choice of a deadly snack.
He’s reluctant to take a bite, but does. “Technically, I am gong to let you die, but I am going to bring you back,” says Erik.
It doesn’t go as planned and it’s nasty. There’s a magnetic force. There is blood. The blurb for the pic directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B.
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