Filmmaker Christopher Landon addresses the box office underperformance of his 2019 film Happy Death Day 2U. The film is a sequel to 2017's Happy Death Day and made $64 million worldwide against its $9 million budget. While that is a fairly respectable total for a low-budget film, Happy Death Day 2U was seen as a disappointment when compared to its predecessor. The original Happy Death Day was able to make $125 million worldwide on an even smaller $4.8 million budget, making it a bona fide breakout hit. 5xy5j

Netflix's Texas Chainsaw Massacre serves as a direct sequel to the similarly-titled horror classic which came out more than 50 years before. Much like 2018's Halloween, the sequel includes several new characters but also brings back iconic villain Leatherface and final girl Sally Hardesty from the original movie.

With the recent news that there might be a continuation to the Happy Death Day franchise somewhere down the line, here’s why the future of the series should be a TV show and not another movie. In a recent interview with Collider, Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum has gone on record stating that "I have a plan. Put it this way. I'm not saying goodbye to Happy Death Day. I'll say it like that." Looks like the genre-hopping Happy Death Day is not dead after all and there is indeed a plan in the works. But is another feature-length sequel the right choice for the franchise moving forward?

This week, Amazon Prime Video is adding a selection of new movies that include crime, romance, and comedy, as well as a huge slate of older movies and complete television series. While many studios are pushing their releases back to movie theaters for larger theatrical releases as places reopen around the COVID-19 pandemic, many audiences are still choosing to wait for streaming releases of new movies. This week, Amazon Prime subscribers have plenty of new content to enjoy from the comfort and safety of their own couches.

She's best known for her scene-stealing role in Happy Death Day, but which other movies and TV shows is Rachel Matthews known for? Rachel Matthews is descended from a long line of actors, with her grandfather being Michael Landon, who is best known for Little House On The Prairie and Highway To Heaven. Her mother Leslie Landon also played various roles in Little House On The Prairie, while her uncle is Christopher Landon, a director with a long association with the Paranormal Activity series, in addition to helming horror-comedy Freaky in 2020.

Freaky director Christopher Landon'sHappy Death Day franchise is a rare series beloved by both horror and rom-com fans alike for its unique premise, but how many times does series heroine Tree (Jessica Rothe) die in Happy Death Day and its sequel Happy Death Day 2 U? Released in 2017, Happy Death Day was a low-budget horror-comedy with a killer hook. Thanks to its ingeniously simple genre-fusing conceit, the movie went on to become a runaway success and spawned a sequel in the form of 2019's more sci-fi oriented Happy Death Day 2 U.

What happened in Happy Death Day 2U's Blu-ray deleted scene and why was it cut from the movie? Described as Groundhog Day meets Scream, Christopher Landon’s 2017 time loop slasher Happy Death Daystars Jessica Rothe as Theresa “Tree” Gelbman – a college student who is murdered by a masked killer on her birthday but finds herself repeatedly reliving the day until she is able to discover her killer’s identity. The movie was a big hit critically and commercially and a sequel – Happy Death Day 2U, also directed by Landon – followed in 2019.

Here's why Happy Death Day's killer wears a distinctive baby mask - and what they also wore instead. Blumhouse has emerged in the last decade or so as a leader in the horror genre. They produced huge hits like Halloween 2018, Get Out, The Purge franchise, Upgrade, and many more. That's not to say they haven't produced their fair share of duds too, as Fantasy Island or Ouija has shown, but their high-concept, low-budget model has certainly paid off in most cases.

The black comedy horror-slasher film Happy Death Day is about college student and sorority girl Tree, who relives her birthday over and over again, with each time ending in her death. The film was successful; it grossed $125 million against a $4.8 million budget. It was so successful, in fact, that it spawned a sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, a year and a half later.

While it's not a bad movie, Happy Death Day 2U's sci-fi twist gets in the sequel's own way, and makes the plot too hard to follow at times. Released in October 2017, the first Happy Death Day earned positive reviews from critics, and was a sizable box office hit for Blumhouse, earning $125 million worldwide on a budget just under $5 million. Any film with that kind of profit margin was a lock for a sequel, and sure enough, Happy Death Day 2U materialized in February 2019.