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The Boy 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

The Boy comes to life on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 3 via Scream Factory. The 2016 horror film is presented in 4K from the original elements with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.

William Brent Bell directs from a script by Stacey Menear. Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Ben Robson, Jett Klyne, and James Russell star.

Special features include: a new commentary by film critics Julia Cunningham and Emily Higgins; new interviews with Bell, Menear, cinematographer Daniel Pearl, doll designer Todd Masters, and doll handler Tannis Hegan; and the trailer.

Village of the Damned 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

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Exclusive: The music-driven project Mixtape, which landed on the 2009 Black List, is finally turning up the volume at Netflix.

Outer Banks and The Archer director Valerie Weiss has come aboard to direct, with a number of actors joining the cast including two-time Emmy winner Julie Bowen, Gemma Brooke Allen, Nick Thune, Jackson Rathbone and newcomers Olga Petsa, Audrey Hsieh and Diego Mercado.

Stacey Menear penned the original script with revisions by The Half of It‘s Alice Wu.

In Mixtape, on the eve of Y2K, orphaned, awkward 12-year-old Beverly Moody (Allen) discovers a broken mixtape crafted by her teen parents. Raised by her grandmother Gail (Bowen), a former teen mom herself who finds it painful to speak about her late daughter, Beverly sees this mixtape as a chance to finally learn more about her parents. So she sets out on a journey to find all the songs on the tape.

Stars: Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery, Ralph Ineson, Anjali Jay, Oliver Rice, Natalie Moon, Daphne Hoskins, Joely Collins | Written by Stacey Menear | Directed by William Brent Bell

Katie Holmes stars in this sequel to 2016’s little-seen creepy doll horror The Boy. It’s directed by William Brent Bell, who clearly has an affinity for this sort of thing, because in addition to helming the original film, he’s just signed on to direct Esther, a prequel to 2009’s superficially similar Orphan.

Brahms begins with a poorly staged prologue in which Liza (Holmes) and her young son Jude (Christopher Convery) are traumatised by a home invasion. The attack leaves Jude unable to speak, so Liza and husband Sean (Owain Yeoman) decide to get away from it all and holiday in the guest house of a mansion in the north of England. They’re there all of five minutes before Jude...

If you missed it in theaters, you can return to Heelshire Mansion when Brahms: The Boy II is released on VOD on April 3rd ahead of its Blu-ray and DVD release on May 19th.

According to Blu-ray.com, the Blu-ray/DVD release of Brahms: The Boy II will include an "alternate ending" and "deleted and alternate scenes."

We have a look at the cover art below (via Amazon), as well as pricing details for the VOD release of the film, and in case you missed it, check out our Q&a with co-star Christopher Convery.

"STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment will release Brahms: The Boy II on Friday, April 3 for (Est) electronic sell thru on all premium platforms at the suggested retail price of only $9.99.

In Brahms: The Boy II, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their...

Actress Katie Holmes, who plays Liza in the horror movie "Brahms: The Boy II", was freaked out by the doll and said working on the film was incredible unnerving.

"It was creepy. It was really creepy every single time. They did such a good job with that doll and I mean, I didn't want to be alone with the doll. It was weird. By the end, it was like, 'Am I waiting in line behind a doll at catering? I might be. I think this thing really is alive'," Holmes told Bloody Disgusting, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

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The actress said she is drawn to the horror genre because of the "communal experience" that comes with watching a scary movie at the cinema.

"Well, what I love about the genre is it's really fun to go and see...

How terrifying is it when your child befriends a possessed doll! Actress Katie Holmes who plays Liza talks about how unique and daunting it was to play the role of a mother in the much-awaited sequel of The Boy.

She says,??Liza is such a universal character, she is a loving mother who is very protective because she was so vulnerable and ready to be scared. It was a fun role to play and be in a hyped state of emotions.?

I'm such a big fan of this genre. I love working with Stacey Menear, I was really excited to be making this movie with them. I feel like it is very terrifying and it has many elements of classic movies, so I'm very excited. We just finished it about 3 weeks ago.??

The movie is?plotted around a family that moves into a new house with no knowledge of its dark past.

Confusion is baked right into the title. Four years after “The Boy” scared up a few bucks at the box office, director William Brent Bell and screenwriter Stacey Menear return with a new vision of what fresh terrors said boy will enact on yet another unsuspecting family. Why “Brahms”? That’s the doll’s name, or the boy’s name, which might remind moviegoers of the nutso line-blurring in “The Boy.” However, “Brahms” also indicates what Bell and Menear really hope to accomplish: and the possibility of continuing a franchise for a film that never expected have one.

There wasn’t much original in Bell and Menear’s first crack at the creepy-doll horror genre, but “The Boy” had a sense of humor and a grasp on its wackily warped mythology that earned a few real chills and a couple of genuine laughs. None of that for “Brahms: The Boy II”; instead,...

It’s a hard to believe that several millennia after the invention of the written word, there are still some sentences that have never been put in print. Case in point: “Brahms: The Boy II” is the “Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker” of horror.

Those are words that were probably not designed to go together, and yet here we are, in the year 2020, and the comparison seems weirdly apt. Much like the latest “Star Wars,” William Brent Bell’s sequel to his unexpectedly successful — and genuinely scary — 2016 horror-thriller seems determined to undermine all smart storytelling of the film that preceded it, to the detriment of both.

“Brahms: The Boy II” takes the best elements from “The Boy” and reverses course so abruptly, it practically leaves skidmarks on the screen. It’s not just a subpar sequel; it retroactively injures an otherwise superior film.

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Brahms: The Boy II favors a benefit not all sequels can boast: the retaining of original creative parties. Writer Stacey Menear and director William Brent Bell both return in their respective roles after 2016’s The Boy, yet I’m not positive their initial cinematic experience left a lasting impression. Granted, Brahms’ second familial infiltration does dare to be different – by completely retconning The Boy’s canonical third act. Please, weaponize creativity, but ensure continuity flows between franchise entries. We’re not even on “Part Iiv” where Brahms blasts into space or the prequel where Brahms goes to old-timey English college. You can’t even keep your storytelling straight for two consecutive films?

Brahms’ newest targets are city folk looking to escape metropolitan hustles and recent traumas. One night while Sean (Owain Yeoman) worked late, wife Liza (Katie Holmes) and son Jude (Christopher Convery) found themselves victims of a violent break-in.

Stars: Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery, Ralph Ineson, Anjali Jay, Oliver Rice, Natalie Moon, Daphne Hoskins, Joely Collins | Written by Stacey Menear | Directed by William Brent Bell

Katie Holmes stars in this sequel to 2016′s little-seen creepy doll horror The Boy. It’s directed by William Brent Bell, who clearly has an affinity for this sort of thing, because in addition to helming the original film, he’s just signed on to direct Esther, a prequel to 2009′s superficially similar Orphan.

Brahms begins with a poorly staged prologue in which Liza (Holmes) and her young son Jude (Christopher Convery) are traumatised by a home invasion. The attack leaves Jude unable to speak, so Liza and husband Sean (Owain Yeoman) decide to get away from it all and holiday in the guest house of a mansion in the north of England. They’re there all of five minutes before Jude...

Harrison Ford’s “The Call of the Wild,” the family adventure based on the classic Jack London novel, earned $1 million in box office previews on Thursday.

Ford stars in the film alongside a furry, but CGI, companion in the form of a dog named Buck. But though the film is the biggest new wide release of the weekend, it will likely fall short of another live-action and CGI hybrid family movie, “Sonic the Hedgehog,” heading strong into its second weekend. “The Call of the Wild” is also the first movie released under the new name 20th Century Studios, with Disney recently renaming the old Fox studio.

The studio is projecting an opening in the $15 million range for “The Call of the Wild.” Compare that to another adventure with a winter release, albeit with a real dog. “A Dog’s Way Home” from last January, debuted to $11.3 million after earning $535,000 in its previews.

“Sonic the Hedgehog” is off to the best start ever for a video game adaptation with a $70 million 4-day opening weekend. Now it is expected to stay No. 1 even with new competition from “The Call of the Wild,” the first 20th Century Fox film that will be released by Disney under the rebranded name 20th Century Studios.

It’s the start of what will be a slower late February period for the box office. Between the release rush of the first half of the month and what is expected to be a crowded March, theaters are largely keeping their distance from this period as it isn’t showing a lot of potential for new films to leg out. With its genre record and strong audience word of mouth, “Sonic the Hedgehog” should stay atop the charts while “The Call of the Wild” is expected to open No. 2 with an opening weekend of approximately $15 million.

Christopher Convery may not be a name people recognize yet, but the young star has been quietly making a name for himself and he's about to take the lead in his first movie with Brahms: The Boy II. Convery is set to star alongside Katie Holmes in the horror sequel, which is set to arrive in theaters later this month. It will be Convery's job to be the creepy kid partner to the cursed doll Brahms we came to know in the original 2016 horror hit.

Though he's only in the early stages of his career, Christopher Convery has amassed some impressive credits. These include several appearances as Martin on Fox's DC series Gotham, a part in 2018's The Girl in the Spider's Web and an appearance in an episode of Stranger Things as young Billy. It's easy to see this kid's stock going up from here.

As the Brahms: The Boy II trailer depicts,...

What better way to celebrate National Make a Friend Day than with a new trailer for a creepy horror movie involving a possessed, lifelike doll? That's precisely what the folks at Stx Films were thinking, as they've used the holiday as an excuse to reveal the final trailer for Brahms: The Boy II, which is set to hit theaters later this month. As we can see, there is a friendship at the center of this movie, but it's probably not the kind the creators of this annual celebration had in mind.

The Boy 2 trailer kicks off by showing us a seemingly happy family as they settle into a new home, far removed from the city. Quite quickly, the young boy finds Brahms, who we came to know in the first movie and makes something of a friend. We see the family restoring the old doll before things start to get twisted.

It’s always interesting to see which original horror films get sequels. Critical acclaim often fades into the background, as commercial success pushes production companies forward in making these new films. Films that get panned by critics end up having two, three, or four sequels, while individual critical darlings are one-and-done. In this case, “The Boy,” which came out in 2016 and panned universally by critics, looks to be given a second chance in the form of “Brahms: The Boy II.”

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Reuniting director William Brent Bell (“The Devil Inside”) with screenwriter Stacey Menear (“The Boy”), “Brahms: The Boy II” will focus again on a creepy doll found by a young child.

Continue reading ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ Trailer: Why Do Kids Keep Becoming Friends With Creepy Dolls? at The Playlist.

To celebrate “National Make a Friend Day,” Stx Entertainment shows Jude (Christopher Convery) finding a frightening new friend in the dirt outside his new home in the final trailer for Brahms: The Boy II.

Once again directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by Stacey Menear, and starring Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman, and Ralph Ineson, Brahms: The Boy II will be released in theaters on February 21st via Stx Entertainment.

The film is produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Eric Reid, Jim Wedaa, Roy Lee, and Matt Berenson. You can check out the new trailer below, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates, including our Q&a with Convery!

"Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.

Stx Films has revealed the first trailer for Brahms: The Boy 2, which brings back the creepy doll Brahms for some more terror toy action. This time around, Brahms will be terrorizing Katie Holmes, in place of The Walking Dead star Lauren Cohan, who headed up the first movie. As we can see from this initial look, this could fill the deadly doll horror void this year, since there are no new Annabelle or Chucky flicks coming our way.

The first footage kicks off with a seemingly happy mother coming home to see her son. Unfortunately, his behavior is a bit, shall we say concerning. So, the family decides to move to a large manor out in the middle of nowhere to change things up a bit. What could possibly go wrong?

Naturally, this troubled young boy finds Brahms buried out in the woods and befriends the doll. The mom thinks the whole thing is creepy,...

Following a year in which Chucky and Annabelle haunted the big screen, the creepy doll Brahms returns to cinemas this February in Brahms: The Boy II, and ahead of the movie's release, you can watch a new family enter Heelshire Mansion in the first trailer for the follow-up to 2016's The Boy.

Once again directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by Stacey Menear, and starring Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman, and Ralph Ineson, Brahms: The Boy II will be released in theaters on February 21st via Stx Entertainment.

The film is produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Eric Reid, Jim Wedaa, Roy Lee, and Matt Berenson. You can check out the new trailer and poster below, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates.

"Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where...

Next month brings the sequel to the satisfying and surprising horror movie The Boy. Director William Brent Bell and writer Stacey Menear are back for Brahms: The Boy II, and so is the creepy doll that terrified everyone in the first movie. /Film was lucky enough to be invited to visit the set of the […]

The post The Shocking Ending of ‘The Boy’ Featured an Impressive Visual Effect That You Never Noticed appeared first on /Film.

As most movie fans know Tim Burton came up with the idea for The Nightmare Before Christmas while doing some shopping as Halloween decorations were quickly replaced with their yuletide counterparts, resulting in a momentary mishmash of the two.

With that in mind, it isn't too crazy to start talking about This Holiday Season's Must See Movies, right? Sure it's only August but let's face it: our anticipation for Star Wars Episode IX started building back in 2012 when Disney snatched up Lucasfilm for $4 billion space credits.

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker will take us back to that galaxy far, far away to wrap up the Skywalker family story with at least some degree of finality, even as a whole universe's worth of Disney+ streaming shows and spin-off trilogies await in the wings.

Moviegoers will travel to a very different theater of war with Oscar bait historical drama 1917. December also...

There's a new resident coming to Heelshire Mansion in Brahms: The Boy II, but we'll have to wait a little longer than expected to witness their arrival, as the sequel to 2016's The Boy has moved back several months on the release calendar.

According to Exhibitor Relations, Brahms: The Boy II will now be released on December 6th, 2019, with Stx Entertainment moving it a little more than four months from its previous July 26th release date.

William Brent Bell is once again directing from a screenplay by Stacey Menear, with Katie Holmes playing the lead role of a new resident at the spooky Heelshire Mansion. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on Brahms: The Boy II, and check out the previous press release and image below:

Previous Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that The Boy 2, a follow-up...

Horror producers Roy Lee and Emile Gladstone have teamed for an untitled scary project just picked up by Paramount Players.

Colin Minihan, the up-and-coming filmmaker behind the well-regarded indie horror flick What Keeps You Alive, will direct the thriller written by Stacey Menear. He is best known for writing creepy horror thriller The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan.

Details for the new project are still vague; however, it centers on a family in a border town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.

Lee is known for being one of ...

Horror producers Roy Lee and Emile Gladstone have teamed for an untitled scary project just picked up by Paramount Players.

Colin Minihan, the up-and-coming filmmaker behind the well-regarded indie horror flick What Keeps You Alive, will direct the thriller written by Stacey Menear. He is best known for writing creepy horror thriller The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan.

Details for the new project are still vague; however, it centers on a family in a border town where the heroine comes to bury her grandmother and is forced to face her childhood fear.

Lee is known for being one of ...

We got our first look at Katie Holmes in this year’s Brahms: The Boy II just last week, and EW’s Summer Movie Preview now provides us with another shot of Holmes in the sequel. We’re expecting a trailer very soon. Stay tuned! William Brent Bell returned to direct, and Stacey Menear returned to script. Unaware of the […]...

This July we will be hit with the continuing tales of Brahms Heelshire and his creepy doll in director William Brent Bell's upcoming sequel The Boy II starring Katie Holmes and Ralph Ineson. And today we have word that the movie will not be called merely The Boy 2 after all. During this week's CinemaCon, the powers that be behind the scenes of the teen horror follow-up have announced that the film will now be going by the official title Brahms: The Boy II. Not sure why the studio and or the filmmakers decided this was a better title than The Boy II or hell even The Boy Returns, but maybe the title change will make a bit more sense after we witness the final film this summer.

I can't help but be intrigued by this new film. Mostly because of how the original movie ended. And if I need...

STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment's follow-up to horror film director William Brent Bell's PG-13 horror-thriller The Boy starring Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans began principal photography earlier this year in Vancouver, British Columbia. The original film was produced for less than $15 million and grossed $68M worldwide so this sequel seems kind of unsurprising to say the least. And today we have not only your first look at the new film but a release date as well. You can check out the first look pic above and/or below. Moving on quickly, we now have word that The Boy 2 will be creeping around in the walls of your local multiplex come July 26, 2019.

And speaking of July 26, 2019, it's an interesting date for the powers that be behind the scenes to pick, considering that's the same day the next Quentin Tarantino motion picture, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is set to open.

There's a new resident coming to Heelshire Mansion in The Boy II, and Brahms will be waiting for them... Starring Katie Holmes, the sequel to 2016's The Boy recently started filming in Vancouver, and we've now been provided with the first image from the film to share with Daily Dead readers.

You can view the new image below, courtesy of STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on The Boy II.

Previous Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that The Boy 2, a follow-up to horror film director William Brent Bell’s The Boy (2016), began principal photography on Monday 28 January, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Brent Bell returns to the helm following the success of The Boy (2016), which grossed $68M worldwide. Katie Holmes leads the cast as “Liza,” with Christopher Convery to co-star as her son “Jude.

STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that The Boy 2, a follow-up to horror film director William Brent Bell's The Boy (2016), began principal photography on Monday 28 January, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Brent Bell returns to the helm following the success of The Boy (2016), which grossed $68M worldwide. Katie Holmes leads the cast as "Liza," with Christopher Convery to co-star as her son "Jude." Owain Yeoman joins as her husband, "Sean," and Ralph Ineson will play the role of "Joseph."

Written by Stacey Menear, who also penned its predecessor, The Boy 2 will be produced by Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid, in addition to Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee.

Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into the estate, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.

STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment just announced that The Boy 2 has started filming in Vancouver. William Brent Bell returns to direct with a cast that includes Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman, and Ralph Ineson:

Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that The Boy 2, a follow-up to horror film director William Brent Bell’s The Boy (2016), began principal photography on Monday 28 January, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Brent Bell returns to the helm following the success of The Boy (2016), which grossed $68M worldwide. Katie Holmes leads the cast as “Liza,” with Christopher Convery to co-star as her son “Jude.” Owain Yeoman joins as her husband, “Sean,” and Ralph Ineson will play the role of “Joseph.”

Written by Stacey Menear, who also penned its predecessor, The Boy 2 will be produced by Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid, in addition to Matt Berenson,...

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STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment said on Wednesday (30) that production has begun in Vancouver, British Columbia, on The Boy 2 starring Katie Holmes and Ralph Ineson.

William Brent Bell reprises his director role on the sequel to The Boy, which grossed $68m at the global box office. STXinternational and Lakeshore introduced the sequel to buyers at the Afm last November, where it sold out. Stx Entertainment will distribute in the Us

Joining Holmes on the cast are Christopher Convery as her son, Owain Yeoman as her husband, and Ralph Ineson in the role of Joseph.

"No matter what you do, evil always finds a way." Fans of The Boy (2016) might be interested to know that a sequel is on the way courtesy of STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment. Director William Brent Bell is returning to helm the sequel, with principal photography starting on January 14, 2019. It was already announced that the movie will star Katie Holmes, and now we have news on new additions to the cast: Owain Yeoman (The Belko Experiment ) will play Holmes' husband Sean, while Ralph Ineson (The Witch) will be playing a character named Joseph.

Press Release: STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that Owain Yeoman and Ralph Ineson will star alongside Katie Holmes and Christopher Convery in William Brent Bell’s latest horror-thriller, The Boy 2. Principal photography will begin in Victoria, British Columbia on January 14th, 2019.

Brent Bell returns to the helm following the success of...

Exclusive: American Sniper and Turn actor Owain Yeoman and Ready Player One actor Ralph Ineson are joining Katie Holmes and Christopher Convery in William Brent Bell’s horror thriller The Boy 2, from STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment.

In the sequel to the 2016 film, a young family moves into Heelshire Mansion, unaware of the terrifying history of the estate. Soon, their young son makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily lifelike doll he calls Brahms. Yeoman will play Sean, the husband to Holmes’ Liza. Ineson has been cast in the role of Joseph. Convery co-stars as their son Jude.

Bell’s The Boy grossed $68M worldwide. Cameras roll on the sequel in Victoria, BC on January 14, 2019.

Stacey Menear, who also penned the first chapter, wrote The Boy 2. Pic will be produced by Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid, in addition to Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee.

STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment recently revealed that Brahms will be back in The Boy 2, which will once again be directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by Stacey Menear, and following the announcement that the sequel will star Katie Holmes as the newest resident of Heelshire Mansion, it's now been revealed that Christopher Convery has joined the cast as Jude, the son of Holmes' character:

From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that their The Boy 2, introduced for the first time at the Afm, has been sold out for all of international. Highlights include Entertainment (UK & Ireland), Sun (Spain & LatAm), Lucky Red (Italy), The Searchers (Benelux), Koch (Germany & Austria), Mgn (Cis), Vertical (Eastern Europe) and Jbg (Australia & New Zealand).

The film is a follow-up to horror aficionado William Brent Bell’s box office hit The Boy...

STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment announced today that their The Boy 2, introduced for the first time at the Afm, has been sold out for all of international. Highlights include Entertainment (UK & Ireland), Sun (Spain & LatAm), Lucky Red (Italy), The Searchers (Benelux), Koch (Germany & Austria), Mgn (Cis), Vertical (Eastern Europe) and Jbg (Australia & New Zealand).

The film is a follow-up to horror aficionado William Brent Bell's box office hit The Boy (2016). Many of these distributors enjoyed the success of the first film and are returning to participate in this timely sequel.

Katie Holmes leads the cast as "Liza," with Christopher Convery to co-star as her son "Jude."

Written by Stacey Menear, who also penned its predecessor, The Boy 2 will be produced by Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid, in addition to Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee. Principal photography will begin in Victoria,...

Exclusive: Christopher Convery, who recurred on Fox’s Batman prequel Gotham and is currently onscreen in Sony’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, has been cast in The Boy 2, STXfilms’ follow-up to the 2016 horror pic. William Brent Bell returns as director and Stacey Menear the screenwriter for the sequel, which is now being toplined by Katie Holmes. Shooting is set to begin in January in Victoria, BC.

Convery will play Holmes’ son in the film, which centers on a young family that, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, moves into the estate. Convery’s character Jude soon makes an unsettling new friend in an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Lakeshore Entertainment’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid are producing with Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee.

The casting comes after a strong American Film Market for the title from STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment,...

Katie Holmes is set to star and take on the lead role in a sequel being developed for the 2016 horror film The Boy.

William Brent Bell will return to direct The Boy 2 and it will be produced by STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment. Screenwriter Stacey Menear is also back to write the script.

The first film was an ok horror movie. It starred The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan and the story followed a young woman who takes a job as a nanny for an 8-year-old boy in a remote English village. Turns out, the child is actually a life-size doll that needs to be cared for like a real human. As you might expect, bad things start to happen when the rules of the doll are violated.

The story for the sequel is said to revolve around a young family, “unaware of the terrifying history of the estate into which they move,...

The Boy 2 is officially happening. STXFilms is partnering with Lakeshore Entertainment on the follow-up to the 2016 horror flick that centered on a spooky lifelike doll. The sequel will see Katie Holmes in the lead role. The Walking Dead star Lauren Cohan fronted the original. The sequel will tell a new story centering on new characters, save for the creepy doll Brahms, who will be back once again.

The sequel to the 2016 horror movie The Boy will follow a family who movies into a new home, unaware of its haunting past. Katie Holmes will play a character named Liza. Her son will make a strange new friend in the form of the aforementioned, creepy, lifelike doll named Brahms shortly after they move in. Horror happenings ensue. Holmes isn't a total stranger to the horror genre, having previously starred in 2010's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Early in her career, she...

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Katie Holmes stars in Brahms: The Boy 2, a sequel to the 2016 Lauren Cohan-headlined horror film.

The Boy arrived in early 2016 as a uniquely interesting horror movie offering, not only because it was headlined by Lauren Cohan, then one of the stars of one of TV’s hottest shows, AMC's The Walking Dead (to which she will soon return), but also because of its unique promotional strategy, which teased it as a haunted house movie; something that, as shocked audiences would discover, it is not. Indeed, while the film provided a profitable $64 million bang for STXfilms’ $10 million budget buck, a sequel – barring something straight-to-dvd – was not expected… until now.

Brahms: The Boy 2 is the title of STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment movie sequel, which procured a high-profile star in Katie Holmes. The sequel got The Boy band back together, landing original director William Brent Bell, who worked...

Katie Holmes is returning to her horror roots. After spending recent (read: post-“Jack and Jill”) years working firmly in smaller-scale cinema, including supporting roles in films like “Logan Lucky” and “Woman in Gold” and directing and starring in her feature filmmaking debut “All We Had,” Holmes has signed on for a new high-profile gig. The actress and filmmaker will star in Stx Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment’s just-announced sequel, “The Boy 2,” which follows their 2016 horror hit “The Boy.”

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Per the film’s official logline, the film follows a “young family” who, “unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion … moves into the estate, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.” Holmes will lead the cast in the role of “Liza,” most likely the matriarch of a seemingly doomed family.

“The Boy...

2016's The Boy was a surprise hit, winning over many horror fans with its third act twist and making enough at the worldwide box office that Brahms is making a return! STXfilms has just announced The Boy 2, starring Katie Holmes this time around and with William Brent Bell returning to direct:

Los Angeles, CA – STXfilms, a division of Stx Entertainment, and Lakeshore Entertainment have today announced their latest joint venture, The Boy 2, a follow up to the successful horror-thriller feature The Boy (2016), which starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. Katie Holmes will headline the cast in the role of ‘Liza’. William Brent Bell will return to direct the sequel.

Principal photography will begin in Victoria, British Columbia on January 14th, 2019.

Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into the estate, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.

Katie Holmes will star as the lead in horror sequel “The Boy 2” from STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment.

William Brent Bell will return to direct the sequel. Principal photography will begin in Victoria, British Columbia, on Jan. 14. Foreign sales will launch at the American Film Market, which opens Oct. 31 in Santa Monica, Ca.

The story will revolve around a young family, unaware of the terrifying history of the estate into which they move, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.

Stacey Menear returns to script. “The Boy 2” will be produced by Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid, as well as Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee. “The Boy,” which starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans, was produced for under $15 million and grossed $68 million worldwide.

Lucchesi said, “Following the success of ‘The Boy,’ we are thrilled to be...

STXfilms has set Katie Holmes to star in The Boy 2, the sequel to director William Brent Bell’s 2016 horror thriller. Brent Bell is returning to helm and Stacey Menear returns to script the follow-up along with original producer Lakeshore Entertainment.

Shooting is set to start in January in Victoria, BC, after Brent Bell wraps up Separation, a horror thriller starring Rupert Friend that gets underway next month in New York.

The Boy grossed $64.2 million worldwide for Stx on a $15 million budget and starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans in the tale of a nanny who believes the boy she’s hired to look after is an actual doll come to life. In the sequel, Holmes will play the matriarch of a young family who moves into Heelshire Mansion, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend — an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.

Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi...

Katie Holmes has joined the cast of “The Boy 2,” STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment announced Tuesday.

“The Boy 2” will be a follow up to the 2016 feature, “The Boy,” which starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. William Brent Bell will return to direct the sequel.

Principal photography is set to begin in Victoria, British Columbia on Jan. 14, 2019.

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Stacey Menear will also return to write the screenplay, while Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Eric Reid are producing alongside Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee.

“Following the success of ‘The Boy,’ we are thrilled to be working on the next chapter of this chilling Brahms story with Stacey and William,” Lucchesi said in a statement. “We are also delighted to be continuing our relationship with Stx, on this, our third partnership.”

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Production set for January 14 start in Canada.

Katie Holmes will star in horror-thriller The Boy 2 that STXfilms and Lakeshore will introduce to Afm buyers next week.

Stx Entertainment is co-producing with Lakeshore and the companies will handle international sales jointly. This is their third collaboration after the Jennifer Garner action thriller Peppermint and survival romance Adrift with Shailene Woodley and Sam Clafin.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on January 14, 2019, on the story of a young family that moves into the Heelshire Mansion, unaware of its terrifying past. As they settle into the estate, the...

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The Boy (2016)

Written by: Stacey Menear

Directed by: William Brent Bell

Cast: Lauren Cohan (Greta), Rupert Evans (Malcolm), Jim Norton (Mr. Heelshire), Diana Hardcastle (Mrs. Heelshire), Ben Robson (Cole)

The scenario most always plays out the same way. A break out hit film or show with an ensemble cast spawns many unrelated off shoots with members of that cast allowed to showcase their talents on a singular level. Sometimes it’s spectacular, sometimes it’s tragic, and sometimes a film that would have completely flown under the radar, breaks through the haze of obscurity because of one golden ticket. That ticket is name recognition, and if the film isn’t a hit, it will at least find its place as a footnote in genre history.

If asking anyone about “The Boy” that might be interested in going to see a film of its ilk,...

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release The Boy on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand beginning May 10th, and we’ve been provided with two Blu-ray prize packs to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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Prize Details: (2) Winners will receive:

(1) Blu-ray / Digtial HD combo pack copy of The Boy. (1) The Boy T-shirt (1) The Boy candle

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Boy Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on May 10th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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Press Release: “Universal City, California, March 9, 2016 – A young American woman uncovers the menacing nature of the English family she cares for in The Boy, a terrifying...

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There's really something creepy about dolls. Ever since I watched The Twilight Zone episode 'Living Doll' as a kid, that damn Talky Tina has haunted me. Over the years there have been plenty of terrifying doll-in-film movies and next up on the plastic chopping block is The Boy.

The movie will debut on Digital HD on April 26, 2016 and hit Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on May 10, 2016. Check out all the details below, and hey, don't talk to creepy dolls.

The Boy stars Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. Directed by William Brent Bell, written by Stacey Menear, Produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, and Richard Wright.

From The Press Release:

A young American woman uncovers the menacing nature of the English family she cares for in The Boy, a terrifying thriller debuting on Digital HD on April 26, 2016 and on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand...

In life, we have to make tough decisions. Last night, a Friday night after an extremely long work week, I made such a decision when I volunteered to see The Boy of my own volition. With no critics’ screenings being offered in the Us, and no midnight openings in NYC, I braved an impending Snowmageddon to weigh in on William Brent Bell’s housebound horror film – and can report that it’s the repugnant genre dumpsterfire you’d expect from a January release. Good ‘effing lord, do I really need to write another 500 words about what a stale, vapid chore this delightless thriller is?

Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, an American nanny who takes a job in a desolate English village. When her car pulls up, Greta is greeted by a gothic looking mansion owned by by the Heelshire family, who talk highly of their son, Brahms. When it comes...

Stx Entertainment served up their new horror/thriller movie, "The Boy," into theaters today, January 22nd, 2016, and we've got some reviews in from a couple of the major,top movie critics in the biz, and it's not such great news. Although, I have seen worse. They gave it some 40 and 50 grades out of a possible 100 at the Metacritic.com site. The film stars: Ben Robson, Diana Hardcastle, James Russell, Jim Norton, Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. We've added statements from the scarce, 2 critics that managed to give it a look-see. Katie Rife over at The A.V. Club, gave it a just average 50 grade, claiming: "At least, maybe The Boy can lead some novices to better, more original horror movies." Then Joe Leydon over at Variety, gave it a 40 grade. He stated: "Despite the assiduous grinding of plot mechanics by William Brent Bell (“The Devil Inside”) and scripter Stacey Menear,...