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The Black Phone: Directed by Scott Derrickson. With Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies. After being abducted and locked in a basement, a boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.
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In 1978, a local serial child abductor and murderer only known as "The Grabber" prowls the streets of a suburb in North Denver. Finney Blake and his younger sister Gwen live in the area with their abusive, alcoholic father Terrence, whose wife committed suicide after having a series of disturbing psychicdreams. Finney is frequently bullied and hara...
Development
The Black Phone emerged from filmmakers Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill's adaptation of Joe Hill's short story of the same name, published in the horror anthology 20th Century Ghosts (2005). Derrickson came across 20th Century Ghosts shortly after its initial US release. The director was eager to conceive a film faithful to "The Black Phone", which fascinated him in its framing of a conventional serial killer story, but struggled to produce ideas of his own devising. He shelved the pro...
Casting
Agents scouted hundreds of child actors for The Black Phone's starring roles. They ultimately hired Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw as the first significant casting choices, from auditions conducted on Zoom as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. McGraw was considered among four actresses, and when a prior commitment to Disney's Secrets of Sulphur Springs forced her to pull out, the producers postponed filming of The Black Phone by several months to accommodate her schedule. Casting f...
Filming
Principal photography began on February 9, 2021 in Wilmington, a seaport town in southeastern North Carolina, under the pseudonym Static. A private residence used for interior and exterior shots was the shoot's initial location. The production base was confined mostly to EUE/Screen Gems's local film studio, from sets portraying The Grabber's basement, and adjacent neighborhoods. Estimates to realize the shoot ran between $16–18 million, the budget partially funded by a $4.7 million transferab...
The Black Phone premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25, 2021. The film screened at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica for the 9th Beyond Fest that October and, in the next year, headlined New Orleans' Overlook Film Festival as the event's closing title. It finished its festival itinerary at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, part of the fest's late-nigh...
Box office
The Black Phone was considered a surprise box office success, as studios feared lower-budget films would not be profitable for theaters closed as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic control measures. The film finished its theatrical run grossing $90.1million in the United States and Canada (55.8% of its earnings) and $71.3million internationally (44.2%), for a global total of $161.4million. Of this figure, $67.8million was estimated to have been yielded by Blumhouse and Universal in net profit...
Critical response
The Black Phone opened to mostly favorable reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of 264 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.0/10. The website's consensus reads: "The Black Phone might have been even more frightening, but it remains an entertaining, well-acted adaptation of scarily good source material." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 65 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable" rev...
Hill pitched Derrickson follow-up ideas examining The Black Phone characters as early as June 2022. Derrickson discussed the possibility of a sequel further while embarking on the press tour for The Black Phone. The film's success lead to immediate negotiations that August, and by October 2023, Universal commissioned The Black Phone 2 with a schedu...
The Black Phone at IMDb13 de mar. de 2023 · In The Black Phone, The Grabber abducts six victims — here's a breakdown of who they are and everything the movie reveals about them. At the opening of The Black Phone, only three boys have been abducted by The Grabber, with abductions four and five quickly following, ultimately culminating in Finney being the final victim taken by ...
25 de jun. de 2022 · The script, which Derrickson co-wrote with his producing partner Robert Cargill, stars Ethan Hawke as The Grabber, a sadistic kidnapper who stalks young boys in suburban Denver in the 1970s.
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17 de mar. de 2023 · The Black Phone follows Finney (Mason Thames), a quiet 13-year-old boy who has a bully problem. When he's the sixth kid to be abducted by a serial killer named "The Grabber" (Ethan Hawke) and locked away in a soundproof basement, he does everything he can to safely find his way back to his little sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw).
27 de jun. de 2022 · Derrickson’s latest film, The Black Phone, based on Joe Hill’s short story of the same name, is about a 13-year-old boy named Finney (Mason Thames), who is abducted by a serial killer known...
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