Escape Room 2 | Sony | July 16, 2021 | Adam Robitel returning to direct

[That One Girl]

https://deadline.com/2019/02/escape-room-2-movie-in-development-sony-deborah-ann-woll-1202565184/

 

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In the wake of Columbia Pictures amassing close to $119M at the worldwide box office off the $9M horror feature Escape Room, the studio is moving forward on the development of a sequel, Deadline has learned.

 

Adam Robitel will return to direct Escape Room 2, as well as writer Bragi F. Schut and producer Neal H. Moritz.

 

[filmlover]

Release date is April 17, 2020.

[Eric Duncan]

17 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Release date is April 17, 2020.

Only 15 months between installments? I'm pretty sure only the Planes movies had a shorter gap between installments

[filmlover]

14 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Only 15 months between installments? I'm pretty sure only the Planes movies had a shorter gap between installments

It's typical for horror sequels to get quickly cranked out. Scream 2 came a year after the first, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer came a year and a month after its predecessor. Happy Death Day 2U is in theaters right now and the first one hit screens just 16 months ago.

[That One Girl]

The Saw movies released one movie per year for a while

[Blaze Heatnix]

11 hours ago, CoolEric258 said:

Only 15 months between installments? I'm pretty sure only the Planes movies had a shorter gap between installments

 

We had seven Saw movies in seven years. I think that's a record.

[Eric Duncan]

 

[JB33]

I actually like that date better. We all know that August can be a good month for smaller films like this to leg it out. Plus, the first one had a pretty underrated run of its own in January. Wonder if this will increase?

[Blaze Heatnix]

The first movie is fun. It's a surprise. I enjoyed it.

 

Hope to see some characters back. 

[The Horror of Lucas Films]

I can see it increasing, first movie was well received.

[Krissykins]

Yeh the first was a pleasant surprise. 

 

I always forget Escape Room made $155m worldwide! 

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Filming starts on October 28th and wraps on January 20th

https://productionlist.com/production/escape-room-2/

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[Neucentro]

Filming started January 7. The first one was fun. Some of the escape room designs (esp. the upside down billiard room) were quite creative.

[Eric Duncan]

https://deadline.com/2020/02/escape-room-2-sony-release-date-change-2020-christmas-1202870886/

 

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Sony’s Escape Room 2 is jumping its release date from Aug. 14 to Wednesday Dec. 30 this year. Adam Robitel, who directed the first $9M production, returns to helm here. The first movie last year grossed $57M stateside, and $155.7M WW with 22% of that latter number coming from China. Originally, Escape Room 2 was dated on April 17 of this year.

 

Escape Room 2 moves away from a crowded late summer weekend against Disney’s The One and Only Ivan, Universal’s Bob Odenkirk action thriller Nobody and Atom Monster/Starlight Culture/New Line’s James Wan horror feature Malignant (which by the way, Sony, is very smart). Nothing is opening wide on the Wednesday before Jan 1, 2021, but Escape Room 2 comes in the wake of such holiday programmed pics as Disney/20th Century Studios’ The Last Duel, Paramount/Skydance’s The Tomorrow War, Universal’s News of the World, DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods 2, and Warner Bros.’ Tom & Jerry movie.

 

While I understand the release date change has nothing to do with the coronavirus, it’s a better bet to go much later with this movie than sooner in China. Even though the PRC film board doesn’t decide until much later which Hollywood pics get into the country, no doubt, once the market opens back up, there’s apt to be a flood of event pics, both delayed and current.

 

[JB33]

Weird date. Usually nothing releases in late December like that. Have to think it's because usually it would have dropped on January 8 but for the two horror films already occupying that date (The Devil's Light, Untitled Blumhouse).

 

Still, very odd choice. 

[filmlover]

 

[JB33]

Still a weird date. The previous two years January 1 landed on a Friday were in 2016 and 2010 - both times there were no wide releases. Usually the first wide release of the year falls on the 8th.

 

I guess there are going to be a lot of weird dates with the release schedule being completely shuffled around.

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