About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures ... Read allAbout to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past.About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past.
- Awards
- 7 nominations
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- TriviaFor Drew Barrymore's cameo, Parker Finn explained that the idea came about as part of an effort to conjure what he referred to as "credibility" for the story's lead character. When the audience meets Skye Riley at the start of the story, we are meant to recognize her as an established, world-renowned star and that's something you can simply sell by having her be interviewed by a well-known real-world talk show host. In Finn's words, "I really, in building this pop star of Skye Riley played by Naomi Scott, wanted to lend credibility to the character and sort of blur the lines between reality and fiction and make her feel almost like she really existed in our world. And so I had this idea of introducing her on a talk show, but I was like, I want to do a real talk show." Drew Barrymore has been hosting The Drew Barrymore Show since 2020, and Parker Finn said he wrote the early scene with her in mind. He wrote to her, including the script pages, hoping that she might take the part, and he was delighted to get a yes. The writer/director continued: "I love Drew Barrymore and I wrote the scene and then I sent it to her and I also wrote a letter to her and she was so gracious and said yes, and it was it was such a like fun dream to get to work with her and to do that."
- GoofsWhile the film takes place in New York City, when Skye and Gemma are driving out of the city to Staten Island, the very last part of the shot is with mountains in the background...clearly upstate NY where the movie was shot.
- Quotes
Paul Hudson: [Skye is looking at him] What?
Skye Riley: What?
Paul Hudson: What? Ah, Jesus Christ. Are you crying right now?
Skye Riley: I-I'm not crying. Are you crying? Hm? Huh? Hey-Hey I'm fucking talking to you!
[Paul turns on the music she turns it off]
Skye Riley: Are you fucking kidding me? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Paul Hudson: What the fuck is wrong with me? What the fuck is wrong with you, huh?
Skye Riley: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know Paul. Why don't you tell me since I can't do anything right.
Paul Hudson: Jesus Christ! I swear.. I swear to fucking God you are so..
Skye Riley: What, what, I'm so fucking what?.. Say it, say it, what am I? Tell me, I am so fucking...
Paul Hudson: You're a fucking psycho!
Skye Riley: Oh, yay!
Paul Hudson: Yeah.
Skye Riley: Psycho.
Paul Hudson: And scumbag. You're fucking crazy.
Skye Riley: I'll show you crazy
Paul Hudson: Oh yeah?
Skye Riley: You wanna fucking see crazy?
[She smacks and while he's driving]
Paul Hudson: Yeah, yeah, stop it
Skye Riley: Fucking crazy?
Paul Hudson: Stop it! What are you doing?
Skye Riley: Huh?
Paul Hudson: Stop, stop it!
Skye Riley: Huh? Is it crazy?
Paul Hudson: Yes, that is crazy! You fucking psycho! Jesus fucking Christ! I'm fucking driving!
Skye Riley: I fucking hate you!
Paul Hudson: Good! Good! Because I fucking hate you too! I fucking.. you crazy bitch!
[He starts laughing]
Paul Hudson: You psycho bitch!
[He starts to fake cry]
Paul Hudson: Aw, you gonna cry? Are you gonna cry now and oh God. Oh, you look so fucking ugly when you cry it's horrible, I can't..
[he pretends to vomit]
Paul Hudson: I can't..
[he pretends to cry and vomit again]
Paul Hudson: Help me God.
[She immediately proves him right by angrily grabbing the steering wheel from him]
Paul Hudson: What the fuck are you doing? What are you doing? Jesus!
[They swerve off the road]
Paul Hudson: OH MY GOD!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Project: Episode dated 17 October 2024 (2024)
- SoundtracksUpstate
Written by Glenn Herweijer, Ben Sumner, Nicholas Michael Hill (as Nicholas Hill) & Stu Brootal
Courtesy of APM Music on behalf of Sony Music Publishing
As for issues, as mentioned previously it's quite similar to the first movie. I was hoping for the formula to get changed up a little, but it follows the same blueprint. Also, as this movie is almost completely standalone, it treads some similar ground in terms of lore and learning about what the "entity" is. So if you've seen the first movie, you'll get some repetitive aspects there.
It's still solid enough on its own though. There are some very creepy sequences, great gore, and Naomi Scott being the absolute shining star of the movie. It's definitely worth seeing just for her performance alone.
- thecanadian-23317
- Oct 18, 2024
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- Also known as
- Cười 2
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- Budget
- $28,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $68,940,921
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $23,021,692
- Oct 20, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $138,040,921
- Runtime2 hours 7 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1