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If you’re looking for a heart-pounding, suspenseful way to spend an evening, you must check out the best escape room movies. These edge-of-your-seat thrillers will have you trying to piece together clues and solve puzzles along with the characters on screen. And, once you’ve seen one, you’ll be hooked. If you take any escape room puzzle movie, it is filled with thrill and excitement.

The “Escape Room” movie series is about a group of five strangers who find themselves working together to get out of a series of dangerous and elaborate puzzle rooms. If anyone can’t get out, they’ll die. The sole player who survives the rooms to the end is the winner. There are puzzles and death traps galore!

You’ll love these psychological thrillers if you’re a fan of movies such as The Cube, the saw movies, Fermat’s room, or the Netflix series Squid Game.

Game Master Exposed In Exclusive Extended Cut Of Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions With Over 25 Minutes Of All-new Footage Including Alternate Beginning And Ending!

Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions is the sequel to the box-office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this installment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive…and discovering they’ve all played the game before. Thenever-before-seen Extended Cut, available on Blu-ray and Digital, reveals the masterminds behind Minosand features even more deadly escape roomswith over 25 minutes of all-new footage!

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• Theatrical and Extended Cuts of Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions

• Go Inside the Minos Escape Rooms•Meet the Players

• Director Adam Robitel on Raising the StakesDIGITAL

• Go Inside the Minos Escape Rooms•Meet the Players

• Director Adam Robitel on Raising the Stakes

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“Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” Columbia Pictures’ psychological horror sequel, earned $1.2 million in Thursday night previews at the box office from early shows starting at 3 p.m. in 2,382 locations. The film will open on approximately 2,815 screens this weekend.

The second “Escape Room” film is projected by Sony to earn $7-8 million in its opening weekend, which would be a good start on a budget of $15 million.

For reference, the first “Escape Room” movie from 2019 ultimately grossed $155 million at the worldwide box office. It made $2.3 million in its Thursday preview start in 2019 and would go on to open to $18.2 million.

“Space Jam: A New Legacy” is also opening this weekend both in theaters and HBO Max, but did not open in Thursday night previews.

“Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” is directed by Adam Robitel and is the story of six people unwittingly trapped in a series of dangerous and deadly escape rooms.

Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Indya Moore, Holland Roden, Thomas Cocquerel, Carlito Olivero, Deborah Ann Woll | Written by Will Honley, Maria Melnik, Daniel Tuch, Oren Uziel | Directed by Adam Robitel

Director Adam Robitel reunites with surviving cast members Taylor Russell and Logan Miller for this sequel to 2019’s puzzles-and-deathtraps franchise-starter. Unfortunately, the film fails to learn any of the lessons from the previous movie and opts for a passable retread rather than bringing anything new to the table.

After a “previously-on-Escape Room” recap, the film picks up not long after the events of the first film, with survivors Zoe (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) desperate to expose Minos, the shadowy company behind the escape room deathtraps. However, they have underestimated their enemy, because no sooner do they arrive in New York than they find themselves trapped on an electrified subway carriage, alongside four other previous escape room survivors, one...

Ahead of its July 16th theatrical release from Sony Pictures, new images have been revealed from Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, the sequel to 2019's Escape Room.

Directed by Adam Robitel from a screenplay by Will Honley and Oren Uziel and Maria Melnik & Daniel Tuch and a story by Will Honley and Christine Lavaf & Fritz Bohm, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is produced by Neal H. Moritz and executive produced by Adam Robitel, Karina Rahardja, Philip Waley.

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Indya Moore, Holland Roden, Thomas Cocquerel, and Carlito Olivero.

"Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is the sequel to the box office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this installment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive…and discovering they’ve all played the game before.

Updated: Escape Room 2 will now open on July 16 instead of next year, where it had been scheduled for the first weekend of 2022. Sony already has the Kay Cannon-directed Camila Cabello musical Cinderella on July 16. For now, that movie will stay there as Sony monitors overseas markets.

There’s a chance that both Escape Room 2 and Cinderella will stay on that date given that they are targeted at different demographics. Warner Bros also has its HBO Max release Space Jam 2 on July 16 as does Searchlight with its Sundance horror acquisition The Night House.

Previously, January 25: Sony/Screen Gems Escape Room 2 will now open on Jan. 7, 2022.

The sequel to the $155M-plus horror film was recently taken off the theatrical release calendar. Previously Sony had the movie set to open on Dec. 30, 2020, then prior to that, Aug. 14, and then even before that date, April 17.

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“Escape Room 2” has moved up its release to July.

The sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller will now debut on July 16, 2021, nearly six months earlier than its planned release date of Jan. 7, 2022.

With the box office beginning to revive after the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s possible that “Escape Room 2” moved up in the schedule to compete within the summer blockbuster timeframe. The first “Escape Room” was a hit at the box office, earning $155 million. “Godzilla vs. Kong” recently raked in the largest box office gross during the pandemic with $31 million, and this past weekend featured a fierce box office battle between “Mortal Kombat” and “Demon Slayer,” signaling to the industry that moviegoers are certainly eager to return to theaters.

The first “Escape Room” film follows six strangers who are brought together to participate in an escape room game, but soon learn they are pawns in a puzzle that could lead to life or death.

Set in a world of witches and shapeshifters, Molly Knox Ostertag's graphic novel series The Witch Boy is being adapted by Netflix as an animated musical with Minkyu Lee (Adam and Dog) as the director and the band Haim onboard to write music for the movie.

Below, we have official details from Netflix (a release date has yet to be revealed) as well as visual development art for The Witch Boy movie:

Netflix’s newest animated musical feature, The Witch Boy, will be directed by Oscar-nominated director Minkyu Lee (Adam and Dog)

The film is based on the Nyt best selling graphic novel series of the same title by Molly Knox Ostertag. It will be produced by Vertigo Entertainment and released by Netflix.

Three-time Grammy Award nominated band Haim is attached to write music for the film.

Directed by: Minkyu Lee

Written by: Maria Melnik

Produced by: Roy Lee, Miri Yoon,...

Minkyu Lee’s world of sorcery and shapeshifting will take center stage in The Witch Boy, Netflix’s newest animated musical feature film.

Hailing from the Oscar-nominated Adam and Dog director and based on Molly Knox Osterag’s New York Times bestselling novel series of the same name, The Witch Boy takes place in a secret, magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters. The Lee’s protagonist, Aster, is surprised to discover his emerging witch powers. But when a mysterious force endangers his world, he must embark on a journey to learn the truth behind himself, his powers and all the magic around him.

The Witch Boy will also feature original music by the Grammy-nominated sister trio Haim. Maria Melnik writes the script with Roy Lee, Miri Yoon and Ryan Harris producing. Vertigo Entertainment produces the feature and Netflix releases.

“It has been...

Rock band and three-time Grammy Award nominees Haim will write the original music for a new animated feature for Netflix called ‘The Witch Boy.”

Minkyu Lee, who is Oscar-nominated for his animated short “Adam and Dog,” will direct “The Witch Boy” based on the best-selling graphic novel series of the same name by Molly Knox Ostertag.

“The Witch Boy” is set in a secret, magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters. But one boy, Aster, is surprised to discover his emerging and extraordinary witch powers. When a mysterious danger threatens his world, Aster must embark on a journey to uncover the truth behind himself, his powers and everything that is magical.

Maria Melnik wrote the screenplay. Vertigo Entertainment is producing the film, along with Roy Lee, Miri Yoon and Ryan Harris.

“It has been a lifelong dream of mine to create an animated...

Netflix announced production on The Witch Boy, an animated musical feature based on the graphic novel series of the same title by Molly Knox Ostertag.

It will be directed by Minkyu Lee from a screenplay by Maria Melnik (Escape Room), and feature original music from three-time Grammy nominated band Haim. The Witch Boy will be produced by Roy Lee, Miri Yoon and Ryan Harris through Vertigo Entertainment and released by Netflix.

Set in a magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters, The Witch Boy follows Aster, who discovers he has emerging witch powers. “It has been a life-long dream of mine to ...

Netflix announced production on The Witch Boy, an animated musical feature based on the graphic novel series of the same title by Molly Knox Ostertag.

It will be directed by Minkyu Lee from a screenplay by Maria Melnik (Escape Room), and feature original music from three-time Grammy nominated band Haim. The Witch Boy will be produced by Roy Lee, Miri Yoon and Ryan Harris through Vertigo Entertainment and released by Netflix.

Set in a magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters, The Witch Boy follows Aster, who discovers he has emerging witch powers. “It has been a life-long dream of mine to ...

The ReFrame coalition has awarded 26 feature films released in 2019 with its ReFrame Stamp, which recognizes the top 100-grossing gender-balanced narrative and animated features. The list, which grew from 20 total films that earned the stamp a year ago, includes Booksmart, Captain Marvel, Harriet, Hustlers and Oscar Best Picture nominee Little Women.

This reflects gains for women in the important roles of director, department heads, and women of color leads and co-leads. With an aim to increase the number of women of all backgrounds working in film, TV, and media, the ReFrame Stamp, which is showcased in end credits and appears on IMDb, serves as a mark of distinction for projects that have demonstrated success in gender-balanced hiring. Additional points are awarded to content that has women of color in key positions.

This year’s list included 12 women directors (12 percent) in the top 100 films at the box office compared to 4 in 2018, with...

With Escape Room unlocking more than $150 million worldwide on an estimated $9 million production budget, it came as no surprise when it was revealed that Columbia Pictures was developing a sequel to the film,which has now been pushed back several months on the release calendar.

According to Exhibitor Relations, the sequel to Escape Room (currently known as Escape Room 2) is now slated to come out on August 14th, 2020, moving it back nearly four months from its initial April 17th, 2020 release date.

As previously revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Escape Room 2 is currently in the works at Columbia Pictures, with Adam Robitel, co-writer Bragi F. Schut, and producer Neal H. Moritz returning for the sequel.

Plot details for the sequel are being kept under wraps, but viewers of the first film may have an idea of where things will pick up in Escape Room 2, as the original movie...

Sony Pictures' psychological thriller, Escape Room, arrives next month on Blu-ray and Digital. See what bonus features it includes within..

Escape Rooms are usually a fun, challenging time spent with friends to gain memories and solve clues in a team-growing environment. Some are fabricated in themes like a Sherlock Holmes mystery, others count down the end of the world, etc. What if one was real, though, and the cost of not solving the puzzle in time meant your life?

Last year, Sony Pictures explored that idea with Escape Room. On April 9, 2019 you can re-live the intense thriller when it arrives on Digital. If physical copies are more your style, the Blu-Ray and DVD will follow a few weeks later, on April 23, 2019.

For full details on everything Escape Room will include, see below...

You’re invited to play for your life when the twisted survival thriller, Escape Room, unlocks on...

With a sequel already in development after a successful run at the box office, Adam Robitel's Escape Room is coming to Digital on April 9th, followed by an April 23rd Blu-ray and DVD release via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The Escape Room Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital releases will come with a bunch of bonus feature goodies for viewers to dive into, including an alternate opening, alternate ending, and six deleted scenes. Read on for the full release details, and in case you missed it, listen to our Escape Room episode of Corpse Club and read Heather Wixson's review and two-part interview with Robitel.

From the Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – You’re invited to play for your life when the twisted survival thriller, Escape Room, unlocks on Digital April 9, and on Blu-ray and DVD April 23 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Capturing the adrenaline-fueled essence of the popular mystery-solving rooms,...

With Escape Room bringing in nearly $119 million on an estimated production budget of about $9 million, it may come as no surprise that Columbia Pictures is now developing a sequel to Escape Room.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel to Escape Room (currently known as Escape Room 2) is in the works at Columbia Pictures, with Adam Robitel, co-writer Bragi F. Schut, and producer Neal H. Moritz returning for the sequel.

Plot details for the sequel are being kept under wraps, but viewers of the first film may have an idea of where things will pick up in Escape Room 2, as the original movie certainly set up an intense escape room scenario for the survivors of the first movie.

Directed by Robitel from a screenplay by Schut and Maria Melnik, the first Escape Room stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, and Yorick van Wageningen.

Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, Nik Dodani, Adam Robitel, Kenneth Fok, Yorick van Wageningen | Written by Bragi F. Schut, Maria Melnik | Directed by Adam Robitel

Adam Robitel’s 2019 film Escape Room is Sony’s attempt at crafting a cheap money making franchise in small budgets and big returns in the same vein as Lionsgate’s enormously successful but varying degree of quality Saw series. Running at just under one hundred minutes, ninety of which are engrossingly tense and aggressively atmospheric with a delightful b-movie quality that no doubt entertains but sadly falls off the wayside with an irksome sequel bait set up that jumps the shark to a stilted degree.

Not to discredit Escape Room for all it proposes in entertainment value but it is derived unconditionally from the bowels of James Wan’s Saw of 2004. Not necessarily the most damning of comparisons...

Exclusive: Veteran manager/producer Brad Kaplan has joined Link Entertainment as a partner. Kaplan, who comes from Primary Wave Entertainment, will work out of Link’s West L.A. offices which were expanded last month in part to make room for the company’s growing literary department.

“We have had the privilege to work with Brad in the past and he has been a friend for over 15 years,” the Link partners said in a statement. “He is one of the smartest and most genuine people we have had the pleasure to collaborate with. As we expand our literary/production division, we couldn’t ask for a better partner. We have always admired Brad’s incredible taste in both clients and material”.

Kaplan started his career at Silver Pictures where he worked as a production executive and worked on such films as Lethal Weapon 4, Conspiracy Theory, Executive Decision and The Matrix.

Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, Nik Dodani, Adam Robitel, Kenneth Fok, Yorick van Wageningen | Written by Bragi F. Schut, Maria Melnik | Directed by Adam Robitel

Directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key), entertaining thriller Escape Room puts an inspired horror movie spin on the current trend for locked puzzle rooms. The franchise-friendly result is like a toned-down version of the Saw movies. In a good way.

After an opening teaser, we’re introduced to three apparently unrelated characters – shy brainbox student Zoey (Lost In Space‘s Taylor Russell), convenience store slacker Ben (Logan Miller) and arrogant businessman Jason (Jay Ellis) – who each receive a mysterious cube-shaped puzzle box. After solving the puzzle, they’re invited to partake in a state-of-the-art escape room in downtown Chicago, where the prize for escaping is $10,000. In the waiting room, they meet their fellow competitors: ex-soldier Amanda...

Escape Room Movie Review: When Saw meets The Game

Escape Room movie review is out. Jumping to cash on the escape rooms trend, the movie is directed by Adam Robitel known for Insidious: The Last Key and The Taking Of Deborah Logan. Is Escape Room worth entering, find out in the movie review of Escape Room?

Important lesson learnt after watching Escape Room

When a slasher like Saw meets The Game for PG -13 audience, things are unfortunately not the same.

What is the story/plotline of Escape Room?

A psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to find the clues or die.

Analysis

Respecting the genre and avoiding to be labeled as a spoiler (The makers had a pre release screening but an embargo on reviews going live only by Friday morning in India after 10:00 a.m) makes sense to them.

Hugely popular short video platform, TikTok has teamed with Sony Pictures Entertainment to promote the studio’s psychological thriller “Escape Room.”

The film features six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control. They must use their wits to find and follow the clues, or die.

Sony recreated settings from the film, including a shrinking room and an ice room, in Madrid, Spain. These were used for a creator event pitching 30 key opinion leaders from 17 countries against TikTok talent from the U.K., Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, Malaysia and Spain.

As they participated in the challenges, both groups recorded their experiences, creating 75 pieces of video content, and sharing with their fans on TikTok’s official “Escape Room” movie page. Participating TikTok creators included the magician, Magic Singh, comedian Karol Konk and makeup artist and body painter Vicky Banham.

The event ended with a scavenger hunt around Madrid’s landmarks,...

As far as PG-13 horror films released in January go, Escape Room exceeds expectations despite a fairly sloppy (yet efficient) set-up which traces three of the six players that make their way to an anonymous Chicago dockside warehouse ready to play an immersive game for $10,000 in prizes.

While character development comes in the form of flashbacks that do find a link between the characters, the real star of the film is the elaborate set pieces, which push the psychological intensity right up to the PG-13 limit. Directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key) from a script by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik, Escape Room delivers a few genuine white-knuckle moments. In the film’s best-directed sequence we find an inverted bar where the floor–or ceiling–literally falls out beneath the players; another highlight places our leads in a small room influenced by 1980s video art that inspired...

“Aquaman” is ringing in the new year by topping the domestic box office for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $30.5 million.

The aquatic adventure starring Jason Momoa has also become the highest grossing DC title overseas with $649.3 million to date after earning $12.4 million from 79 international markets on Friday. That beats “The Dark Knight Rises,” which previously held the position with $636.8 million internationally. This weekend’s projected domestic haul would mark a roughly 42% decline, with “Aquaman” having taken in $887.6 million globally.

The weekend’s only wide release among a slew of holdovers, Sony’s “Escape Room,” will spar with the third frame of “Mary Poppins Returns” for second place with about $16 million each. That number marks a debut above earlier estimates for “Escape Room.”

The psychological horror pic, which opened at 2,717 North American locations, pocketed $7.7 million on Friday, including $2.3 million from Thursday previews.

Adam Robitel directed “Escape Room...

The third frame of “Aquaman” is again leaving rivals under water at the North American box office, with about $25 million for the first weekend of the year, early estimates showed on Friday.

“Mary Poppins Returns” has been forecast to finish with about $20 million, while Sony’s launch of the thriller “Escape Room” is coming in above expectations at about $15 million at 2,717 sites, although the studio is adhering to a $10 million to $12 million range. Sony’s fourth frame of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is heading for fourth with about $13 million, followed by Paramount’s third weekend of “Transformers” prequel “Bumblebee” with $11 million.

“Aquaman” is heading for a decline of about 52% this weekend at 4,125 domestic locations. The Warner Bros. tentpole, starring Jason Momoa, has dominated the domestic market since it opened on Dec. 21 with $222 million in its first 13 days in North America. “Aquaman” has hit a worldwide total of $846 million, led by $277 million in China.

“Escape Room” has opened with a respectable $2.3 million in 2,386 North American locations on Thursday in previews starting at 4 p.m.

Sony’s psychological thriller, which centers on six strangers in immersive rooms that turn out to be deadly traps, is expanding to 2,717 sites on Friday with forecasts in the $10 million range. Directed by Adam Robitel from a script by Bragi Schut and Maria Melnik, “Escape Room” stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine and Nik Dodani.

The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz and Ori Marmur and carries a modest $9 million budget. “Escape Room” is the only wide opening of the weekend. Reviews have been mixed with a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Aquaman” should win the weekend handily for its third consecutive box office crown with around $25 million to $30 million at 4,125 locations. The Warner Bros. tentpole, starring Jason Momoa, has dominated the domestic market...

One of my favorite activities is to go with a few friends and do an Escape the Room game. I’ve done them in multiple states across the country, and even done one in Dubai. They’re an absolute blast. So, despite the iffy Trailer and troubling release date, I was looking forward to Escape Room. Maybe it could surprise? I’d even heard a bit of positive buzz. Then, earlier this week…I saw it. Alas. This is a standard issue garbage January release, truly meant to be dumped. In fact, even though it’s early, I wouldn’t be surprised at all for it to end up in 12 months gracing my Bottom Ten list for 2019. This film is a horror/thriller hybrid that mixes in adventure concepts. A cold open shows us one unlucky individual in Ben (Logan Miller) desperately trying to escape a room with its walls literally closing in.

Later tonight, Adam Robitel’s Escape Room will be arriving in theaters, and to mark the occasion, Daily Dead recently caught up with the director to talk about his latest genre offering. A twisty little experiment in psychological horror that follows a group of participants trapped inside an Escape Room experience where their lives are constantly hanging in the balance, Escape Room was written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik, and stars Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell, Tyler Labine, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, and Nik Dodani.

Yesterday, we brought you the first part of our interview with Robitel, and he discussed coming aboard the project, the film’s intricate production design, and more. For this second interview installment, the director chatted about the cast of Escape Room, sequel potential, and how a modern horror classic inspired one key element utilized in the film.

Everyone in the cast is really...

The premise is simple: A group of folks who don’t know each other receive a mysterious box in the mail. Inside this elaborate gift — think the Hellraiser cube, only a wee bit more benign — is an invite for a free session at an exclusive Chicago escape room. They show up on the appointed date and time, all of them trying to figure out why a corporate hotshot (Insecure‘s Jay Ellis), a shy college student (Taylor Russell), an Iraqi War Veteran (Deborah Ann Woll), a trucker (Tyler Labine), a...

As someone who has spent a good amount of time in various escape rooms over the last few years (and I’ve probably lost more than I’ve won), Adam Robitel’s Escape Room was—as the kids these days are saying—completely my jam. From the high-energy script to the excellent ensemble assembled onscreen to the wondrously intricate production design and breathtaking set pieces, Escape Room delivered everything I was hoping for and more, making it the perfect way to kick off a brand new year of horror.

The setup for Escape Room is pretty much what you’d expect if you’ve seen just one trailer: six strangers find themselves in the mix of a mysterious escape room scenario, all driven by different reasons for accepting the challenge. But the group quickly realizes this contest of will and wit has far grander stakes than they could have ever imagined,...

“Escape Room” filmmaker Adam Robitel has carved out a funny little niche for himself as the director of the first wide-release movie of the new year, two years running. Robitel rang in 2018 with “Insidious: The Last Key,” a functional but forgettable shocker in the “Insidious” franchise. Which was, in retrospect, perfectly fitting for a disturbing year, one that we somehow managed to collectively get through but which many of us would prefer never to talk about again. Maybe he was onto something.

Here’s the good news: “Escape Room,” Robitel’s latest New Year’s gift to the world, is a definite improvement. This gimmicky William Castle-inspired thriller is 10 pounds of silly in a five-pound bag, but you know that going in. It’s a movie about escape rooms that literally kill you, and if you’re willing to buy into that premise, it’s about as good as...

Long before puzzle hounds and adrenaline junkies were spending their own money and time solving real-world escape rooms, the horror space was dramatizing it on the big screen. From the obvious — the “Cube” cult favorites, the still-spinning “Saw” franchise — to enduring classics like, well, just about any haunted house film worth its screams, movies about overcoming terror with logic have always been a staple of the genre. Now that people can experience the madness of escape rooms for themselves, it’s only fitting that the film industry has taken note and churned out its own thriller about said rooms — entitled simply “Escape Room.”

This isn’t the first horror movie of its type: Not to be confused with 2017’s “Escape Room,” which also centered on the eponymous experience veering out of control, or last year’s “No Escape Room,” which added a supernatural twist to the same general scenario, Adam Robitel...

2019’s theatrical genre releases are kicking off with a bang this weekend, as Adam Robitel’s Escape Room is set to captivate audiences starting this Thursday night. A twisty little experiment in psychological horror that follows a group of participants trapped inside an Escape Room experience where their lives are constantly hanging in the balance, Escape Room was written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik, and stars Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell, Tyler Labine, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, and Nik Dodani.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Robitel about his experiences on Escape Room, and he chatted about the directorial leaps in his career which has led to him taking on the ambitious thriller. Robitel also talked about the evolution of the script for Escape Room as well as how integral the production design on the film was to the story, and the challenges of creating...

Want a chance at winning a million dollars?! Columbia Pictures’ Escape Room movie is giving You a chance to use your puzzle-solving skills and a chance to enter to win a trip to Los Angeles and a shot at $1,000,000! And don’t miss the new movie Escape Room, only in theaters January 4th!

In the Escape Room Movie Million Dollar Challenge Sweepstakes, gamers, horror fans, and puzzlesolvers alike can enter an immersive digital experience at EscapeRoomMovieChallenge.com. To survive all three (3) 360° movie-themed escape rooms you must solve a series of puzzles utilizing clues and custom interactive riddles. Survivors will be able to enter for a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles, go through a real escape room, and have a shot at $1,000,000! No Purchase, Payment Or Puzzle Completion Necessary. See the Official Rules at EscapeRoomMovieChallengeRules.com

Escape Room is a psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves...

"Find the clues or die." That is the crucial rule to follow in Columbia Pictures' Escape Room, the new movie from director Adam Robitel, and to celebrate the film's upcoming release, an official tie-in movie challenge game has been launched, giving fans a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles, experience a real escape room, and potentially win $1,000,000.

Press Release: Culver City, December 14, 2018 – Want a chance at winning a million dollars?! Columbia Pictures’ Escape Room movie is giving You a chance to use your puzzle-solving skills and a chance to enter to win a trip to Los Angeles and a shot at $1,000,000! And don’t miss the new movie Escape Room, only in theaters January 4th!

In the Escape Room Movie Million Dollar Challenge Sweepstakes, gamers, horror fans, and puzzle-solvers alike can enter an immersive digital experience at EscapeRoomMovieChallenge.com. To survive all three (3) 360° movie-themed escape rooms you...

Tagline: "Find the Clues or Die." The upcoming horror thriller Escape Room should not be mixed-up with other films. This version, from director Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan), should not be confused with Peter Duke's film, of the same name, nor Will Wernick's Escape Room. Besides the unoriginal title, Escape Room (2019) brings six characters together, in a trap filled room. As the temperature heats up, the characters are forced to find solutions to more and more complex puzzles. Escape Room was written by Bragi F. Shut and Maria Melnik. As well, the cast consists of: Tyler Labine (Tucker and Dale vs Evil), Deborah Ann Woll and Taylor Russell. The film's first sweat drenched trailer is hosted here. Recently, the film's theatrical release date has been changed. Originally, this title was set to show on February 1st. Now, Escape Room will show, in theatres, this January 4th. Home entertainment...

Joseph Baxter Oct 19, 2018

Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll and Lost in Space’s Taylor Russell tackle a surreal maze with killer consequences in Escape Room.

Escape Room, a psychological thriller from Sony Pictures, might just become a refreshing entry for the horror genre’s current phase of jump-scare ghost movies. Moreover, it’s the kind of film that inspires education and creative thinking, utilizing the ultimate form of duress: an elaborately violent death.

Fans of Netflix TV will know some of its primary players, such as Lost in Space co-star Taylor Russell and Daredevil co-star Deborah Ann Woll. They are joined here by Tyler Labine (New Amsterdam), Nik Dodani (Murphy Brown), Logan Miller (The Walking Dead) and Jay Ellis (Insecure) as part of a group who volunteer to participate in an experimental maze in which – unbeknownst to them – their ability to solve problems will keep them alive.

Escape Room Trailer...

Sony made a pair of tweaks to its winter release schedule today, moving Escape Room up from February 1 to January 4 and Miss Bala from January 25 to that newly vacated February 1 date.

Escape Room (fka The Maze) is a psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to survive. Directed by Adam Robitel from a script by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik, the film stars Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis and Nik Dodani. On its new date, Escape Room will go up against Aviron’s crime drama Three Seconds and Ld Entertainment’s thriller Jacob’s Ladder.

Miss Bala stars Gina Rodriguez as a woman whose friend goes missing in Tijuana and finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game being played by the CIA, the DEA and a charismatic young crime boss (Ismael Cruz Cordova). Anthony Mackie,...

Exclusive: Quantum And Woody, an adaptation of the Valiant Entertainment comic that has Avengers: Infinity War helmers Anthony Russo and Joe Russo and Spy’s Mike Larocca attached to executive produce via their Agbo, is in early development at TBS, I understand. Ant-Man And The Wasp‘s Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari are writing the pilot for what could be a franchise series, though it’s early days.

Quantum And Woody is part of the Valiant Entertainment stable of comics which is owned by Dmg Entertainment and remains one of the key superhero publishing troves not currently tied to a major studio. That could change as Dmg is understood to be taking meetings around town for a bigger scenario deal.

Co-created by writer Christopher Priest and illustrator Mark Bright, Quantum And Woody was originally published in 1997 and draws inspiration from the characters played by Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in...

Sure, all the superhero movie news surrounding Sony lately is about their expansion of the Spider-Verse films. But just as the studio continues to milk their Marvel property, they are also working to build their own shared universe thanks to Valiant Comics. They’ve already announced that Vin Diesel will be starring in the upcoming “Bloodshot,” and the next film that is being developed in the shared universe is based on the hit Valiant comic book series “Faith.”

According to Deadline, Sony has signed writer Maria Melnik to write the upcoming adaptation.

Continue reading Sony Developing Film Based On Plus-Sized Female Superhero ‘Faith’ at The Playlist.

Sony and Valiant Comics are teaming up to make the ‘sci-fi-loving geek with telekinetic superpowers’ Hollywood’s first plus-sized superhero

Hollywood is breaking new ground with its first plus-sized superhero, as a film featuring Faith Herbert, Aka Zephyr, from Valiant Comics’ Harbinger stories gets underway.

According to Deadline, Sony have hired writer Maria Melnik (American Gods) to work on the project. The film is part of a 2015 deal the studio made with Valiant to develop movies from the publisher’s stable of characters. (Sony currently has the Vin Diesel starrer Bloodshot in development.)...

In today’s film news roundup, Sony is developing a movie about superhero Faith Herbert, Stack House Productions moves forward with two projects and Orion dates Taylor Schilling horror-thriller “The Prodigy.”

Projects Launched

Sony Pictures is developing a movie version of “Faith,” based on the Valiant Comics series of the same name with Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe and Dan Mintz attached to produce for Sony Pictures.

The studio has hired “Escape Room” writer Maria Melnik to write the script. The “Faith” comics are centered on Faith Herbert, a geeky teen obsessed with comics and science fiction, in addition to having the power of flight and telekinesis. Created by writer Jim Shooter and David Lapham, she is a member of the Harbinger Renegades and first appeared in 1992.

Sony and Valiant began collaborating in 2015 on developing a “Bloodshot” movie, based on the Valiant character. The studio signed Toby Kebbell this week to...

As part of Hollywood's never-ending quest to make certain that all types of heroes are eventually represented on the big screen, it's been announced that Sony Pictures has tapped American Gods scribe Maria Melnik to write a film centered on Valiant Comics own plus-sized superheroine, Faith. In the comics, Faith Herbert is a happy-go-lucky, science and fan-fiction loving woman who wields... Read More...

Exclusive: Women have already become staples of the superhero movie game, but now the genre will have its first plus-size female heroine. Sony Pictures is moving forward with a live action adaptation of the Valiant Comics superhero story Faith, and the studio has hired American Gods scribe Maria Melnik to write the film.

The hero is Faith Herbert, a jubilant, comics-and-science-fiction loving geek who also happens to have telekinetic superpowers. Toby Jaffe and Neal Moritz will produce via their Original Film banner with Dan Mintz of Dmg Entertainment.

Sony Pictures made a 2015 deal with Valiant Entertainment that already has led to the Dave Wilson-directed Bloodshot, a hoped for franchise launch to star Vin Diesel alongside Baby Driver‘s Eiza Gonzalez, Outlander‘s Sam Heughan and Toby Kebbell. The hero ensemble Harbinger is also on the drawing board. Sony has made superheroes a priority, just setting Jared Leto and director...

Sony is developing a feature adaption of Valiant Entertainment's Faith.

The comic book follows an aspiring geeky teen Faith Herbert who is obsessed with comics and sci-fi, and also happens to be a telekinetic superhero. Up-and-coming writer Maria Melnik has been tapped to pen the superhero feature that will be produced by Neal Moritz and Dan Mintz.

Melnik's credits include American Gods and upcoming action thriller The Escape Room, which hails from Sony and Moritz' Original Film. She is repped by Wme and Link.

Faith is the latest superhero development for the studio. News broke Wednesday that Jared Leto would be leading ...

Sony is developing a feature adaption of Valiant Entertainment's Faith.

The comic book follows an aspiring geeky teen Faith Herbert who is obsessed with comics and sci-fi, and also happens to be a telekinetic superhero. Up-and-coming writer Maria Melnik has been tapped to pen the superhero feature that will be produced by Neal Moritz and Dan Mintz.

Melnik's credits include American Gods and upcoming action thriller The Escape Room, which hails from Sony and Moritz' Original Film. She is repped by Wme and Link.

Faith is the latest superhero development for the studio. News broke Wednesday that Jared Leto would be leading ...

Sony Pictures is in talks with Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll and Taylor Russell to star in The Maze, the Adam Robitel-directed thriller. The film is in the vein of The Game, an elevated psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, who must use their wits to survive. Bragi Schut wrote the first script draft and Maria Melnik did the rewrite. Neil Moritz and Ori Marmur are producing for Original Film. Robitel is CAA…...

Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller and Taylor Russell will star in the thriller The Maze.

The Sony project will be directed by Insidious: Chapter 4 director Adam Robitel. The project is described as in the vein of the 1997 David Fincher film The Game, an elevated psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to survive.

Neal Moritz and Ori Marmur are producing via Original Films. Maria Melnik, a staff writer on series American Gods, wrote the latest draft while Bragi F. Schut wrote an earlier draft of the...

Ron Hogan Jun 12, 2017

Emily Browning continues to impress in American Gods. Here's our review of the latest episode...

This review contains spoilers.

1.7 A Prayer For Mad Sweeney

It’s strange to think that Emily Browning might just become the breakout star of American Gods, but here we are. You’d expect someone like Ricky Whittle to blow up, or perhaps Corbin Bernsen will get that career renaissance I spoke about last week. Maybe Omid Abtahi will translate the beatific charm of Salim into a big career, or Chris Obi will become a household name after displaying both calculated menace, kindness, and comic timing, usually in the same scene. And yet, Emily Browning, who played the lead in several huge-budget movies, is poised to make a career leap with performances like her most recent in A Prayer For Mad Sweeney.

The tale of Essie McGowan (Emily Browning playing a second role...