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Happy Death Day is a 2017 American black comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon, and written by Scott Lobdell. It stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard. The film was produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner.
- Happy Death Day 2U
Happy Death Day 2U is a 2019 American science fiction black...
- Jessica Rothe
Jessica Ann Rothenberg (born May 28, 1987), [1] [2] better...
- Israel Broussard
Isaiah Israel Broussard (/ ˈ b r uː s ɑːr d /; [1] born...
- Christopher Landon
Christopher Beau Landon (born February 27, 1975) is an...
- Scott Lobdell
Scott Lobdell (/ ˈ l ɒ b d ɛ l /; [1] born 1960) is an...
- Tree Gelbman
Tree Gelbman was a featured character in "The Horrors of...
- Ruby Modine
Ruby Wylder Rivera Modine (born June 20, 1991) is an...
- List of Films Featuring Time Loops
2017: Rob is caught in a time loop as he keeps waking up...
- Rachel Matthews
A native of Los Angeles, Matthews was born in 1993, the...
- Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American...
- Happy Death Day 2U
Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American composer of film, television, and video game scores.
- Plot
- Production
- Music
- Release
- Reception
- Future
College student Ryan Phan wakes up in his car on September 19. Returning to his dorm room, he walks in on his roommate Carter and Carter's girlfriend, Tree. He resumes work on an experimental quantum reactor with fellow students Samar and Dre to try to slow down time. After Bronson, the school dean, shuts down the project for causing several power ...
Development
Ahead of the first film's release, director Christopher Landontalked about the possibility of a sequel, focusing on why Tree went into the time loop stating "The whole idea for my sequel is actually already in this movie". Actress Jessica Rothe in an interview in 2018 stated that while most horror sequels retread the original, Landon's pitch instead "elevates the movie from being a horror movie into a Back to the Futuretype of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off,...
Casting
Most of the original actors returned, including Rothe, Modine, Broussard, and Matthews. In addition, Suraj Sharmaand Sarah Yarkin were cast.
Filming
Principal photography on the film began on May 14, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana.In November 2018, Ben Baudhuin was confirmed to be the film's editor.
On February 15, 2019, Back Lot Music released the original motion picture soundtrack for the film, with music produced by Bear McCreary. The soundtrack did not feature Lizzo's cover of "Stayin' Alive". On January 2, 2019, Back Lot Music released a cover of "Stayin' Alive" performed by Lizzoas a stand-alone promotional single for the movie. The song...
Happy Death Day 2U was released on February 13, 2019. It was originally scheduled to be released one day later, on Valentine's Day. However, the film was rescheduled after a request from Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jaime was a victim of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which took place exactly one year prior. The film was released di...
Box office
Happy Death Day 2U grossed $28.1million in the United States and Canada, and $36.5million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $64.5million, against a production budget of $9million. In the United States and Canada, Happy Death Day 2U was released alongside Isn't It Romantic, and was projected to gross $17–20million from 3,207 theaters in its opening weekend. Opening without Tuesday night previews, the film made $992,000 on its first day, Wednesday, and $2.7million on Valentine's Da...
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 209 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A funnier follow-up with a sci-fi bent, Happy Death Day 2U isn't as fiendishly fresh as its predecessor, but fans of the original may still find this a sequel worth celebrating." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore...
Novelization
On February 26, 2019, Blumhouse Books released a novelization written by Aaron Hartzler titled Happy Death Day & Happy Death Day 2U, to coincide with the second film's release.
Regarding the possibility of a third film, writer and director Christopher Landon has stated that he "definitely [has an idea for] the third movie in [his] head", while producer Jason Blum has said that if "enough people see this movie, we're gonna make a third movie, we want to make a third movie". In March 2019, following the film's less-than-pro...
Bio. In the sleepy port town of Bellingham, Washington, sixteen-year-old aspiring composer Bear McCreary imagined and wrote his own films, just so he could score them. A chance encounter led him to film-music legend Elmer Bernstein, who moored his boat in Bellingham harbor.
An interview with Bear McCeary on the score of Outlander season two, and the French connection. Bear McCreary's score for Outlander season one, is so hauntingly beautiful, he received an Emmy nomination for it in 2015.
May 2, 2018 · Below, we discuss McCreary’s composing idols and origins, how the projects he chooses reflect his tastes, his aversion to being typecast or developing a distinctive style, his composing process...
Composer: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Bear McCreary is a degreed graduate of the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music (in 'Composition and Recording Arts'). Bear McCreary was one of a small and select group of proteges of the late, many-honored film composer Elmer Bernstein.
