Director James Wan, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures Celebrate Friday the 13th With Special Encore, Big Screen Showings of “The Conjuring”
BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#TheConjuring–Director James Wan, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures are giving
horror movie fans a special treat this Friday, May 13, with encore, big
screen showings of Wan’s chilling 2013 box office hit “The Conjuring” in
13 cities across the U.S. and Canada.
These free screenings will take place at haunted or “spooky” venues in
Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Miami, Washington, DC, Salem (MA),
Vancouver, Dallas, Austin, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis and
Sacramento/Ione (CA). In addition to seeing “The Conjuring,” audiences
will be treated to a special, taped greeting from Wan as well as a
behind-the-scenes, sneak peek from his new film, “The Conjuring 2.” All
attendees at these Friday the 13th showings will receive a
“The Conjuring 2” mini movie poster and 13 “lucky” winners selected at
random at each showing will receive passes to attend a local preview
screening of “The Conjuring 2,” prior to the new film’s nationwide
release on June 10.
In Los Angeles, fans will see “The Conjuring” at an outdoor screening at
the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In Chicago, fans will see the film at
the haunted Music Box Theater and in Sacramento/Ione it will be screened
at Preston Castle, a reform school for boys built in 1894, just to name
a few examples.
New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller “The Conjuring 2,” with James
Wan once again at the helm following the record-breaking success of “The
Conjuring,” brings to the screen another real case from the files of
renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. Reprising their roles,
Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air,” TV’s “Bates Motel”) and
Patrick Wilson star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most
terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a
single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by
malicious spirits.
Rounding out the cast are Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon
McBurney and Franka Potente. The screenplay is by Chad Hayes & Carey W.
Hayes & James Wan and David Leslie Johnson, story by Chad Hayes & Carey
W. Hayes & James Wan. Peter Safran and Rob Cowan, who previously
collaborated on “The Conjuring,” are producing with Wan. The executive
producers are Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Walter Hamada and Dave
Neustadter.
New Line Cinema presents a Safran Company/Atomic Monster Production, a
James Wan film, “The Conjuring 2.” Scheduled for release on June 10,
2016, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner
Bros. Entertainment Company. This film has been rated R by the MPAA for
terror and horror violence.
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Contacts
Warner Bros. Pictures
Erin Orr, 212-636-5270
erin.orr@warnerbros.com
