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Happy Death Day is one of the few widely loved horror titles by genre fans that happen to fall within a PG-13, teen-focused demographic, and it has even earned itself two Blumhouse-produced films to date Still, despite its first-film traction, the lackluster box-office numbers that came attached to the film's sequel Happy Death Day 2U,[...]

Before the trendy PG-13 horror movie M3GAN dominated the box office, the teen-friendly slasher film Happy Death Day earned itself solid love from moviegoers — leading to a sequel with about half of the traction that its predecessor established. Even so, the 2019 black comedy horror flick Happy Death Day 2U became a hit with its[...]

The status of Happy Death Day 3 has remained mostly uncertain, but the original film's cult-following already led to the birth of a franchise (which resulted in an unusual sequel, Happy Death Day 2U), so anything seems possible. There has been the occasional optimism from the creative team and stars of the franchise about the chance[...]

When Happy Death Day was released in 2017, box office analysts couldn't have expected that it would go on to earn over $125 million worldwide, with a micro-budget (in comparison) of under $5 million The financial success of the PG-13 horror flick eventually spawned a desire for a sequel, and the initial film began to[...]

When a horror movie is announced to be PG-13, there's almost always a fleet of genre fans with something to say. Films like the second remake of Black Christmas or Happy Death Day are examples of genre films that faced that critique very early on The film Black Christmas hit a massive roadblock with moviegoers and a[...]

The director enjoyed the meta, self-aware aspects of horror in Freaky and Happy Death Day The two films have very similar ranges in heightened comedy and unexplainable events that typically create a lighter, bloodier atmosphere for a knife-wielding psychopath. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures Landon recently spoke to Collider about Freaky (which just made over $4 million in[...]

The trailer for drama All My Life debuted this morning, starring Happy Death Day's Jessica Rothe and Crazy Rich Asians Harry Shum Jr Based on a true story of a couple falling in love, getting some pretty terrible news, and scrambling against time, this one looks to be packing an emotional punch It is also[...]

Happy Death Day three has a working title according to creator and director Christopher Landon The Blumhouse Groundhog Day-style horror film grossed a ton of money, as did the sequel, although less than the first Fans were confused by what was given to them in part 2, but it is starting to find an audience[...]

Happy Death Day was a great horror film for one reason, and that is Jessica Rothe The actress carried the film, and without her, it would not have been nearly as good as it was The sequel Happy Death Day 2 U was pretty bad, but again, not because of Rothe She is quite talented[...]

Happy Death Day is one of the better horror films to come out in the last few years This has everything to do with the cast, especially Jessica Rothe, who is brilliant as a coed who is forced to relive the same day over and over again until she can solve her own murder at[...]

Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day 2U) is set to join Gone Girl author/screenwriter Gillian Flynn's upcoming Amazon Studios adaptation of British series Utopia, joining a cast that includes John Cusack (High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank), Rainn Wilson (The Office), Sasha Lane (American Honey), and Javon "Wanna" Walton (Euphoria)[...]

Happy Death Day 2U, the low budget comedy horror sequel to the even lower budget comedy horror movie Happy Death Day written by Scott Lobdell, seems to have done well enough over the last week with a $26 million opening weekend. Instead, it seems that Lobdell is launching a new film-and-comics franchise called Odin. He posts on Instagram: For[...]

Apparently New Year's Day is a hot trailer drop/announcement date now, with several different studios releasing trailers and teasers for upcoming properties. Like this brand new trailer for the upcoming Happy Death Day 2U, featuring the return as the creep AF babyface killer from Blumhouse: https://youtu.be/WtNOmmka6QwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Happy Death Day 2U –[...]

The first trailer for Happy Death Day 2U, sequel to the surprisingly popular Happy Death Day, is here. Blumhouse's official Twitter account just posted the trailer this morning: Happy Friday 2U Watch the new trailer for #HappyDeathDay2U 🎂👶🔪 #hdd2u pic.twitter.com/F3x5mRPscN — Blumhouse (@blumhouse) November 30, 2018 The film will be directed by Christopher Landon, and sees the return of[...]

Endeavor Content won a bidding war for the rights to the book, with Happy Death Day writer-director Christopher Landon producing with an eye to direct The publisher, Quirk Books, will also produce Awkward writer Jenna Lamia will pen the script. The story, set in 1988, follows the relationship of two best friends, Abby and Gretchen After[...]

If you loved Happy Death Day, you may wanna clear your calendar for Valentines Day 2019 The already-in-the-works sequel film, which will be called Happy Death Day 2U, is apparently looking at February 14th as their release date. Blumhouse Productions ended up with a surprise hit on their hands with the Groundhog Day-esque whodunnit, raking in one of[...]

We see masks from other Purge films, the killer's mask from Happy Death Day, and I am not sure but possibly a Michael Myers mask (Blumhouse is producing the new Halloween film if you didn't know), so that was a neat treat for us Blumheads (feel free to use that everyone) Pete declines to help[...]

That Happy Death Day sequel is still happening, and we just got some news about returning cast members Universal/Blumhouse raked in an impressive close to $123M worldwide with their low budget horror ode to Groundhog Day.  The film, while a familiar premise, was original enough in it's hero and execution. Jessica Rothe, who played main character Tree[...]

Happy Death Day, written by the Red Hood And The Outlaws comic book writer  Scott Lobdell and directed by Paranormal Activity helmer, Christopher Landon, is another of the time-loop series, but the hook this time is that at the end of each day our heroine, Tree Gelbman (played by La La Land's Jessica Rothe), is killed by a[...]

The other day we posted the teaser trailer for Happy Death Day, a new film from Blumhouse pictures and comic writer Scott Lobdell Now we have the full trailer and we see that it's a horror / thriller take on Ground Hog's Day where a young woman name Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wakes up on[...]

X-Men writer, co-creator of Generation X and Divine Right, and current writer of Red Hood And The Outlaws and No World, comes a new movie starring Jessica Rothe, Happy Death Day. Directed by Christopher Landon, the movie sees a college student reliving the day she is murdered until she discovers her killer's identity. I'm calling it "Groundhog Slay". The[...]