(CelebNMusic247-News) Insidious Chapter 2 Scares Itself a Part 3
Insidious Chapter 2 killed the competition with the box office this weekend pulling in over $40 million in North America, making it one of the largest horror genre openings ever.
Entertainment One (eOne), FilmDistrict and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) made the official announcement that Insidious 2 will be having a sequel. The news follows the extremely successful opening weekend of Insidious Chapter 2
Here’s the drop:
Oren Peli will produce the third film with Blum and Steven Schneider, Brian Kavanaugh Jones, Peter Schlessel, Lia Buman and Xavier Marchand.Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse said:
“FilmDistrict, eOne and SPWA have been incredible partners on the Insidious franchise.”
“We are all so grateful for how audiences embraced James Wan and Leigh’s latest film and are excited to see what Leigh has in store for the third chapter.”
The second film, Insidious: Chapter 2, grossed eight times its budget over this past weekend and ends with a cliffhanger setting up a new direction for the franchise. A sequel was inevitable. Now Blumhouse, FilmDistrict and Sony are wasting no time in letting fans know the series will continue.
While director James Wan won’t return to direct (“I am finished with the horror genre,”he recently said), writer Leigh Whannell (left) will return to pen the third part. Whannell wrote the first two films in addition to co-starring.
But writer Leigh Whannell and director James Wan admitted that they’re NOT sure where to go with the third installment of the Insidious franchise:
Here is was they told Slashfilm:
Whannell: I wouldn’t say there’s a scene in this movie that points to anything.
Wan: I will say the expansion on this world that we’ve created. I think if you’re a horror fan you would know that the continuing aspect of potential future films is that we could create a potentially rich horror world, a very rich horror world that we can pull so many stories from.
Will you go see the third installment of Insidious 2?
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