New Cursed Pic and MPAA Info
Good news: here's the newest pic from Cursed.
Bad news: I won't see it until mid Summer. No, the film has not been bumped back. Well, actually, it kind of has. The version Dimension Films will release on February 25th will be the re-edited (sans Craven) PG-13 version. The film received that rating for "horror violence/terror, some sexual references, nudity, language and a brief drug reference." The version that has been screened for the past several months has been stated as being a very hard R with many beheadings and lots of gores. Obviously, Dimension believes this will earn the film more money at the box office. However, they need to consider this: Hide and Seek, an R-rated horror-thriller, just opened to $22 million this past weekend. It should end up making $55-65 million when all is said and done if you give it the standard horror opening-to-final gross multiplier. The reported final budget for Cursed is - amazingly! - only $38 million. Dimension recently re-edited Darkness to the dismay of the director and that only made $22 million with a PG-13 rating. You do the math.
What does all this mean? Unless the film receives mostly positive reviews, I'm holding out till Summer when the unrated edition comes to DVD.
Bad news: I won't see it until mid Summer. No, the film has not been bumped back. Well, actually, it kind of has. The version Dimension Films will release on February 25th will be the re-edited (sans Craven) PG-13 version. The film received that rating for "horror violence/terror, some sexual references, nudity, language and a brief drug reference." The version that has been screened for the past several months has been stated as being a very hard R with many beheadings and lots of gores. Obviously, Dimension believes this will earn the film more money at the box office. However, they need to consider this: Hide and Seek, an R-rated horror-thriller, just opened to $22 million this past weekend. It should end up making $55-65 million when all is said and done if you give it the standard horror opening-to-final gross multiplier. The reported final budget for Cursed is - amazingly! - only $38 million. Dimension recently re-edited Darkness to the dismay of the director and that only made $22 million with a PG-13 rating. You do the math.
What does all this mean? Unless the film receives mostly positive reviews, I'm holding out till Summer when the unrated edition comes to DVD.
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