If you're gonna properly release a movie then you should probably release the movie properly. I haven't looked much into Magic Mike's overseas release, how's that gonna go that might be comparable to Evil Dead Rise?
I haven't read the book but after I saw the film I looked up things that happened in the book and there some things that are very different. A major part is apparently a Shyamalan change as it seems to have been closer to the book in the earlier drafts by the co-writers.
I liked it. Some really good performances, a great first act, and it just about manages to not quite stretch itself too thin with the runtime. Within seconds I could tell that the two co-writers must've taken charge on the dialogue because it's not as clunky or weird as usual for Shyamalan (though there are a couple lines here and there). That becomes both a positive and a negative because it takes away some of the idiosyncrasies of a Shyamalan movie with his strange ways of writing characters. As a whole the movie feels a bit more generic as a result than something like Old, but it is a tighter watch that won't make the audience go "what?" as often. It gets too heavyhanded at times but thankfully he pulls away more than something like Signs (the closest film of his I can compare this to). It's a solid little thriller that doesn't pretend it's anything more than that.
I'm sure there will be some pushback now after the novelty has worn off, but I'm very excited to see what Akela Cooper will do when tasked with expanding on her own ideas. I'm expecting them to go crazier, but the further they go, the further that % will drop from the first lmao. Though unlike most horror films of this nature, that's a hell of a lot of goodwill going into the sequels.