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Pink Villa
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Final Destination Bloodlines Day 16 India Box Office: Supernatural horror sequel adds Rs 75 lakh ahead of third weekend
Final Destination: Bloodlines continues its steady run at the Indian box office. On Day 16, the supernatural horror film added Rs 75 lakh to its collection, bringing its total earnings to Rs 47.75 crore. Despite a drop from its initial weeks, the film remains a popular choice among genre fans and franchise loyalists. The film opened to a strong response, earning Rs 31.75 crore in its first week, followed by Rs 15.25 crore in Week 2. Day 16's collection, while modest, signals that the film still has some hold at the box office heading into its third weekend. Here's a quick highlight of the film's earnings so far. India Box Office Collection — Final Destination: Bloodlines Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, Final Destination: Bloodlines is the sixth entry in the long-running horror franchise and serves as a standalone sequel to Final Destination 5 (2011). The film follows a college student, played by Kaitlyn Santa Juana, who begins experiencing premonitions inherited from her grandmother and sees death coming for her family. She must now race against time to defeat fate. The film also features Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd. Originally planned for release on HBO Max, the film ultimately received a theatrical rollout following production delays due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. It was filmed in Vancouver between March and May 2024. Final Destination: Bloodlines released in US cinemas on May 16 and was met with positive reviews from both critics and fans. Many praised its clever writing, tense atmosphere, and inventive death sequences. The film has since grossed USD 191.7 million globally, becoming both the best-reviewed and highest-grossing entry in the Final Destination franchise to date. In India, despite competition from several summer releases, the film continues to attract horror fans and may extend its run with stable weekend numbers. All eyes are now on how it performs during weekend 3.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Final Destination: Bloodlines Review: I've Been Waiting 14 Years For This, And It's Just What I Wanted
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 'Formulaic' is typically not a word any movie-goers wants to find in a review thanks to a negative connotation, but allow me to argue for the Final Destination franchise as an exception: in the case of this series, there is a clear formula that brings success. At the top of the list is a massive disaster that arrives via a protagonist's vision. Then there is the collection of conflicting personalities who deal with the news of their impending demise with variety. And finally, Death, an incorporeal villain, must abide by a certain design while also unfurling complicated, shocking, and creative executions. Final Destination: Bloodlines Release Date: May 2, 2025Directed By: Zach Lipovsky and Adam SteinWritten By: Guy Busick & Lori Evans TaylorStarring: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Teo Briones, Alex Zahara, Rya Kihlstedt, Gabrielle Rose, Brec Bassinger and Tony ToddRating: R for strong violent/grisly accidents, and languageRuntime: 110 minutes It's a specific simplicity that I can get behind, and it's why I've now counted myself as a fan of the Final Destination films for a quarter-century now (my appreciation for the full totality of the series only interrupted by the unfortunately awful The Final Destination). If a new chapter can tick all of those boxes, I'm going to be satisfied – grinning ear to ear as pieces of delicate Rube Goldberg-esque machinations fall into place and result in blood flying and body parts being eviscerated. Thankfully, that's the darkly joyful experience offered for genre fans with director Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein's Final Destination: Bloodlines. For reasons that aren't immediately apparent, the series has been in hibernation for the last 14 years, with 2011's Final Destination 5 (a box office success) being a superlative installment with a brilliant twist and serving up a 'leave them wanting more' vibe. That movie had previously been the title that I deemed to be the best sequel, but it has now been usurped. It's not often that this is something you can say about the sixth chapter of a franchise, but Final Destination: Bloodlines offers up some clever and sinister ideas that blend beautifully with the familiar, and it makes bold moves that enrich the canon. It's a work that feels organically grown from decades of fan appreciation on behalf of the filmmakers and wholly worth the wait. As is tradition, the film begins with a devastating, intense, and violent disaster – specifically a deadly incident at the opening of a ritzy restaurant at the top of a skyscraper in 1968 – but in a twist, the event is not just a vision of the sequence's central figure (Brec Bassinger). It's also revealed as the recurring nightmare of Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), a college student who has no idea what dream means but knows that it has something to do with her mysterious never-discussed grandmother. Taking a break from school to reunite with her family and get some answers, Stefani learns that her mother's mother Iris (Gabrielle Rose) successfully stopped the skyscraper collapse in the late 1960s, but she has spent the decades since then convinced that Death is targeting not only her and everyone she saved, but also the descendants who never should have been born. The protagonist finds herself properly convinced of the danger and Death's design, and she tries to convince her uncle (Alex Zahara), her cousins (Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore), her brother (Teo Briones) and her estranged mother (Rya Kihlstedt) of the blood-soaked reality before it is too late. The Final Destination movies have never really put a major emphasis on connecting threads between the sequels before (a side effect of each installment slaughtering its collection of characters), but it can be said that all of the right lessons were taken away from the surprise loop-back ending of Final Destination 5 in the making of the latest sequel. In Final Destination: Bloodlines, a specific effort is made by screenwriters Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor to connect dots in the franchise to create a bigger picture that was never really envisioned prior, and it's a tremendous balancing act of both major revelation and maintaining mystery that works incredibly well. It adds dimensions to the 'Death's design' concept that are far more complex than what's in the film's predecessors, but it's never so complicated that it sucks the fun out the endeavor. There are easter eggs galore for fans to feast on – both in the story and in the props/production design, and it even manages to pull off what I would have previously thought would be impossible: it provides a satisfying backstory for the ever-mysterious William Bludworth, played by late genre legend Tony Todd, and it even packs some powerful emotion in the orchestration of a goodbye to the character. It answers a great number of big questions within the canon while also keeping the door open for the future. The new film's 'in' to Final Destination storytelling is rock solid, but what fans are inarguably looking for in Bloodlines are plenty of slow-building horror sequences, and once it lines up all of its potential victims, it doesn't disappoint. It's a hallmark of these movies to try and instill fear from every day activities (the ultimate example being that it's impossible to drive behind/past a logging truck without thinking about the opening sequence of Final Destination 2), and it's pulled off with disgusting aplomb again here. Backyard barbecues, tattoo parlors, MRI machines and more will all now inspire some subconscious wariness thanks to simple, ping-ponging circumstances that escalate to gnarly bloodshed on screen. Multiple sequences are downright disgusting, but Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein know that they are playing to a different breed of sick puppy than those who enjoy, for example, the Saw movies, and all of the horrific mayhem is properly pulled off with a funny flourish. The randomness of death in the real world is a cruel joke, but in the Final Destination universe, one is invited to be in tune with the devilish sense of humor, and Bloodlines perfectly gets that part of the assignment. It's not an outright horror comedy, but it understands how these films wink at the audience. Special effects are a perfect tool for getting this across, as there is a Raimi-esque understanding that a character getting a face full of blood splatter can be its own kind of hilarious. From the opening sequence where people are smashing through glass and being set on fire to sequences where characters are being impaled, cut to ribbons, and crushed, there is a lot of movie magic going on that is both disgusting and (for the right kind of audience member) enchanting. I will never understand why the Final Destination franchise was kept on ice for as long as it was, but now that it's back, I never want it to go away again. Bloodlines offers the precise blend of disgusting, fun, and clever that has made this series a favorite among horror fans, and while I still don't love how long I had to wait, it can be said that it was worth it.
Sydney Morning Herald
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Log trucks, tanning beds and pool drains: The most outrageous Final Destination deaths
And though the overall premise remains largely the same across each film, audiences can rarely predict what will happen next. Every instalment delivers at least three major twists, the biggest of which was the revelation that the fifth film was actually the prequel to the very first. So, in honour of what Final Destination does best, here are six of the franchise's most outrageous deaths (so far). Proceed with extreme caution. Death by train (Final Destination) Few horrors nail misdirection like Final Destination. In the original, the ill-fated teens believe they've cracked death's code, thus determining who will die next. After their car becomes trapped on a train line and the presumed doomed person can't open the door or undo his seatbelt, the theory seems confirmed. But death is devious. Another character manages to pull his classmate from the tracks before the train hits. As they argue over why death skipped him, a metal sheet is swept up by the passing train, decapitating an entirely unexpected character. Death by log truck (Final Destination 2) Many millennials have an irrational fear of driving behind log trucks. This scene is why. A young woman has a premonition in which she foresees dozens of people become roadkill after a metal chain snaps on a cargo truck, sending massive logs hurtling along the highway (to hell). Carnage ensues. A motorcycle rider is crushed by his own bike, cars collide and catch fire. And the pièce de résistance: one of the logs rams right into a policeman's windshield, taking his head clean off. Death by tanning bed (Final Destination 3) Tanning beds have been cancelled for a while now, largely due to the increased risk of skin cancer. But one could argue that Final Destination 3 had a small part to play. A trip to the tanning salon goes horrendously wrong, as two women become trapped inside their booths and are slowly burned to a crisp. Like most Final Destination deaths, it's triggered by a series of freak coincidences – a discarded drink, a tube of tanning lotion wedged under the door. Inside the claustrophobic death chambers, the temperature rises so high that their goggles melt into their eye sockets. As they say, beauty is pain. Death by pool drain (The Final Destination) Pool vents are already unsettling – what's inside those dark voids? This scene turns those troubling questions into an all-out phobia. A man is pulled onto a pool drain bottom-first after the pressure system malfunctions. His body creates a vacuum, resulting in his insides being sucked out. Even the Final Destination crew couldn't stomach showing the final moment on-screen, but did reveal the guts geyser that followed. Death by laser eye surgery (Final Destination 5) For many, the eye is not to be messed with. A woman's trip to the ophthalmologist goes haywire after an electrical malfunction increases the laser's intensity. Trapped in the chair by a clamp and speculum, the laser blasts her eye, as well as the hand she desperately tries to shield herself with. She eventually frees herself, but then stumbles out the window where she falls to her death. In a cruel footnote, her undamaged eye pops out of its socket and is crushed by an oncoming car. Death by MRI (Final Destination: Bloodlines) All it took was one pesky clipboard and a peanut snack to seal two men's fates. In the most recent film, a hospital's MRI machine is accidentally set to 'research level', pulling anything metallic towards it. This includes a man's nose, nipple and phallus piercings, as well as a wheelchair that smashes into his back. The machine's force keeps pulling on the man and chair until he eventually folds backwards like a human taco. The other man, seemingly spared, is suddenly impaled in the head by a flying vending machine spring.
The Age
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Log trucks, tanning beds and pool drains: The most outrageous Final Destination deaths
And though the overall premise remains largely the same across each film, audiences can rarely predict what will happen next. Every instalment delivers at least three major twists, the biggest of which was the revelation that the fifth film was actually the prequel to the very first. So, in honour of what Final Destination does best, here are six of the franchise's most outrageous deaths (so far). Proceed with extreme caution. Death by train (Final Destination) Few horrors nail misdirection like Final Destination. In the original, the ill-fated teens believe they've cracked death's code, thus determining who will die next. After their car becomes trapped on a train line and the presumed doomed person can't open the door or undo his seatbelt, the theory seems confirmed. But death is devious. Another character manages to pull his classmate from the tracks before the train hits. As they argue over why death skipped him, a metal sheet is swept up by the passing train, decapitating an entirely unexpected character. Death by log truck (Final Destination 2) Many millennials have an irrational fear of driving behind log trucks. This scene is why. A young woman has a premonition in which she foresees dozens of people become roadkill after a metal chain snaps on a cargo truck, sending massive logs hurtling along the highway (to hell). Carnage ensues. A motorcycle rider is crushed by his own bike, cars collide and catch fire. And the pièce de résistance: one of the logs rams right into a policeman's windshield, taking his head clean off. Death by tanning bed (Final Destination 3) Tanning beds have been cancelled for a while now, largely due to the increased risk of skin cancer. But one could argue that Final Destination 3 had a small part to play. A trip to the tanning salon goes horrendously wrong, as two women become trapped inside their booths and are slowly burned to a crisp. Like most Final Destination deaths, it's triggered by a series of freak coincidences – a discarded drink, a tube of tanning lotion wedged under the door. Inside the claustrophobic death chambers, the temperature rises so high that their goggles melt into their eye sockets. As they say, beauty is pain. Death by pool drain (The Final Destination) Pool vents are already unsettling – what's inside those dark voids? This scene turns those troubling questions into an all-out phobia. A man is pulled onto a pool drain bottom-first after the pressure system malfunctions. His body creates a vacuum, resulting in his insides being sucked out. Even the Final Destination crew couldn't stomach showing the final moment on-screen, but did reveal the guts geyser that followed. Death by laser eye surgery (Final Destination 5) For many, the eye is not to be messed with. A woman's trip to the ophthalmologist goes haywire after an electrical malfunction increases the laser's intensity. Trapped in the chair by a clamp and speculum, the laser blasts her eye, as well as the hand she desperately tries to shield herself with. She eventually frees herself, but then stumbles out the window where she falls to her death. In a cruel footnote, her undamaged eye pops out of its socket and is crushed by an oncoming car. Death by MRI (Final Destination: Bloodlines) All it took was one pesky clipboard and a peanut snack to seal two men's fates. In the most recent film, a hospital's MRI machine is accidentally set to 'research level', pulling anything metallic towards it. This includes a man's nose, nipple and phallus piercings, as well as a wheelchair that smashes into his back. The machine's force keeps pulling on the man and chair until he eventually folds backwards like a human taco. The other man, seemingly spared, is suddenly impaled in the head by a flying vending machine spring.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Final Destination Bloodlines Gives Tony Todd a Proper Goodbye
Final Destination Bloodlines ended up being the last role for Tony Todd, who died of cancer in November at 69. Because Todd knew he was ill going into filming, directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein wanted to give him and his character, William Bludworth, a proper goodbye. Despite his illness, Todd urged the directors to 'not write him out of the movie,' saying he wanted to participate. Stein and Lipovsky shared what it meant to work with Todd in an interview with GamesRadar+. 'When he got there on set, he was so incredibly joyful and excited to be there, and excited to meet the new cast and basically give Bludworth not only a proper ending, but a proper beginning,' Stein said. 'And a proper explanation for who his character is as a person.' William Bludworth first appeared in Final Destination as the coroner who explains the rules of death to the teenagers who face it. Bludworth would also make appearances in Final Destination 2 and Final Destination 5. In Bloodlines, Stein made sure to work with Todd to develop Bludworth's farewell. 'We really worked closely with him to not only give a goodbye in the movie for his character to the other characters, but to craft what we thought might be a goodbye to the audience, because these Final Destination movies take several years to make,' says Stein. 'We knew this would probably be his last Final Destination movie. We didn't realize it would be his last movie. We wanted him to be able to say goodbye. We asked him in that final moment to put it in his own words. You know, put the script away. What do you wanna say to your fans? What has all this been about? You know, what is life about?' Stein called Todd's appearance 'inspirational,' citing that the late actor spoke 'directly from the heart to the audience.' Final Destination Bloodlines arrives in theaters on May 16, 2025. (Source: GamesRadar+) The post Final Destination Bloodlines Gives Tony Todd a Proper Goodbye appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
