The Warner Bros wave at the box office continues this weekend with New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines, the first sequel in 14 years in the 25-year-old horror franchise, eyeing a series record start between $35M-$40M at 3,400 locations.
The global outlook for Bloodlines is $70M with 74 territories going with U.S.
The Zach Lipovsky-Adam B. Stein directed R-rated feature is very strong with women under 25 both in unaided awareness and first choice, followed by guys under 25. The best Final Destination opening to date belongs to 2009’s The Final Destination which posted a $27.4M 3-day. Through five movies, the Final Destination titles have minted north of $666M worldwide.
The first installment in the series was written by Jeffrey Reddick, and intended to be an X-Files episode, but he flipped it into a spec script. The set-up entails a group of people who escape death after one of them has a premonition that a tragic catastrophe is about to occur. However, each of them dies by bizarre circumstances. The sixth film centers around a college student with violent nightmares, who returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.
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