ShoWest '10: Thought The Final Destination Was the End?
Source: Shock Till You Drop
March 18, 2010


As we've hinted at in previous news items here on Shock, The Final Destination is not the final chapter in the series.

Today, at ShoWest in Las Vegas, Shock contributor Ed Douglas sat in on Warner Bros.' The Big Picture presentation during which the studio's Alan Horn confirmed a fifth Final Destination film is in the works.



Each film in the series continues to be a financial success for the company. The Final Destination, which hit theaters last year in 3D, grossed $66 million domestically but made $180 million worldwide.


The last entry's title sounded so definitive so we're curious to hear what they'll call the next film...

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=14535

The last entry's title sounded so definitive so we're curious to hear what they'll call the next film...


The Final Final Destination: Really, We Mean It This Time

The Final Final Destination: Really, We Mean It This Time
:rofl:

The Final Final Destination: Really, We Mean It This Time

Seriously, I could see them do "Final Destination" or "Final Destination V"

Producer's Update on Final Destination 5...
Source: Ryan Rotten, Managing Editor
March 21, 2010


Earlier in the week, at the annual ShoWest industry event in Las Vegas, Warner Bros.' Alan Horn revealed plans for a fifth Final Destination.

What we wanted to know is: How far along in development is it?

For the answer, Shock reached out to producer Craig Perry who has been on board the franchise from the beginning.




"If we find the right storyline – and we're working on it – then we'll take the lessons we learned from "The Final Destination" and make the necessary improvements to deliver what audiences expect from this franchise, going back to the original.

What I know for sure is that it will be in 3D and deliver inventive, suspenseful, fun kills. That I can promise!"



Perry told us. So there's your first word on the sequel being in 3D - these days that's a given, however.

As each Final Destination has opened three years after the last installment, one could presume FD5 will hit in 2012.

More details as they come in!

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=14556

"[I]If we find the right storyline – and we're working on it

What's to find? Group of people don't die when they should have, death comes looking for them.

The last one was really good. The way the people died was different and the story moved along well it didn't drag like the 3rd one did.

Elm Street / The Thing Writer Tackling Fifth Destination!
Monday, April 26, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


Writer Eric Heisserer is destined for some big things as he's literally exploded into the horrorverse.

First he penned a rewrite of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street redo (arriving in theaters this Friday), then he tackled a prequel to John Carpenter's classic The Thing (now filming for release in 2011), now he's set his sights on a new destination: Final Destination 5.



The article over at the Hollywood Reporter states that New Line, hoping to stave off a mummifying franchise, is trying to break out of the repetition of the first four movies and believes that Heisserer is part of the solution.

How he'll do so is being kept under lock and key, although one scene involves a character undergoing laser-eye surgery.



The "Destination" movies, which center on the idea that one can't cheat death, usually begin with a group of people who survive a catastrophe because of the intervention of one person who has a premonition. Death, however, will have its due, and the survivors end up expiring in elaborate Rube Goldberg-like fashion.

The movies, produced by Craig Perry, have consistently been profitable for New Line because they tend to be made with modest budgets and generate solid returns, usually in the mid-$50 million range domestically.



The company thought the fourth installment, released last year in 3D, was going to be the last one because it was a tough production that faced reshoots -- and received a critical drubbing.

However, when it grossed $66 million domestically and was a big success overseas, it was only a matter of time before another one came along.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/19957

iF: Eric, you’re doing FINAL DESTINATION 5?

HEISSERER: It will be out next year. That’s the plan. We’re going to go back to what made the original work and build from there. We’re going to make sure we’re creating good suspense horror movie that happens to be a FINAL DESTINATION movie.

That’s not to say it’s not going to have the hallmarks of what we’ve come to love about the franchise. We learned a lot of lessons from the fourth movie, and we want to show we’ve grown from that. I also want to show what a love about the franchise, and most of what I loved about it, is all in the first one.



iF: It’s 3-D.

HEISSERER: I think so.

http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3806

Date Set for Final Destination 5
Source: Warner Bros. Pictures
May 14, 2010


Final Destination 5 will be coming out on August 26, 2011 with no word yet on director, cast or whether it will be shot in 3D like the previous installment.

(Stay tuned for that info!)

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=15202

New Line Closing In: Potential Final Destination 5 Directors
Thursday, May 27, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


Now that a August 26, 2011 date has been announced, New Line Cinema is moving extremely quick on Final Destination 5.

With a script near completion (Eric Heisserer is doing rewrites from the set of The Thing), the studio is quickly looking to lock down a director for the 3-D sequel to the $200m worldwide hit The Final Destination.

With an announcement expected by the end of next week, there are three names in the mix to bring Death back to the big screen.



The fifth film will also be in 3D, and we hear that the three leading candidates to helm it are all first-time directors, but with considerable expertise in 3D and special effects, writes Vulture.



Steve Quale - a second unit and visual effects director on Avatar.


Bradley Parker - a commercials director and second unit/visual effects director on Matt Reeves' (Cloverfield) forthcoming film Let Me In.


Charles Gibson - the second unit/visual effects director on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.



New Line Cinema is looking to "revive" the franchise and put a new spin on it.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20387

I look forward to it, but I think studios are getting a bit too carried away with doing everything in 3D. Yeah, it's cool to see a couple times, but it's a concept that eventually gets tired.

Final Destination 5 Has a Director
Source: Variety
June 8, 2010


Steven Quale is staring death in the eye. He's just signed to sit in the director's chair on Final Destination 5.

Eric Heissere penned the script for the film which opens August 26, 2011.




Quale comes from a visual effects background having worked on Avatar, Titanic and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
So, he's a James Cameron vet.


FD 5 will be in 3D and the opening scene is said to take place on a suspension bridge.
Heissere also teased that there will be a scene involving eye surgery.

Shooting begins this September.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=15443

EXCLUSIVE:

New Title for Fifth Final Destination, Opening Disaster Confirmed!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


Going along with the new trend in dropping a digit into the title (i.e. Scre4m), Bloody Disgusting learned that Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema have tentatively set the title of their fifth Final Destination to: 5NAL DESTINATION.


It's gets better, we've got confirmation that the opening disaster involves a suspension bridge collapsing. Boom!

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20744

First Actor Cast in Revived Final Destination Franchise
Friday, August 13, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


Miles Fisher, best known around town an Ari-esque talent agent in the short film spoof Pinkberry: The Movie, is the first name attached to the Steven Quale-directed horror film "Final Destination 5" (or more lamely 5NAL Destination).


Slated for a 3D release August 26, 2011, the sequel opens with a suspension bridge disaster and is said to involve a laser-eye surgery sequence.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/21287

Friday the 13th Star Arlen Escarpeta Cheats Death in Final Destination 5
August 16, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


About.com is reporting that Arlen Escarpeta, star of the 2009 Friday the 13th remake, will cheat death in Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema's 5NAL DESTINATION.



"I think what they're going to do really, really well this time around, they're going to go back - the story, the plot, a lot of stuff is really going to matter," explained Escarpeta.

"I think the last movie it was just death. It was death, death, death, which is fine because that's what people want to see. But this time we're going to give them a little bit of everything - good story, great director - it's going to be good."



The 3-D sequel arrives in theaters August 26, 2011.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/21302

Tony Todd Returns as the Reaper in Final Destination 5
Thursday, August 26, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


Tony Todd will make his return to the Final Destination franchise in New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures' Final Destination 5, which begins lensing September 13 in Vancouver.

He cameo'd in the first two films as Mr. Bludworth, which many horror fans believe is "Death", and had an off-screen role as the voice of the roller coaster in the third.


Death returns to theaters on August 26, 2011.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/21452

Final Destination's Death Eyes Two More Actors
Source: Heat Vision
August 31, 2010


David Koechner (Anchorman) and P.J. Byrne ("The Game") have joined the cast of Final Destination 5.


Koechner is playing a clueless executive, while Byrne plays an obnoxious kleptomaniac.



The fifth installment sees the new batch of victims, co-workers on a corporate retreat, escaping the collapse of a city's suspension bridge.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=16370

Emma Bell Hopes to Cheat Death Once Again in Final Destination 5
Thursday, September 2, 2010
By: MrDisgusting


Emma Bell (Frozen, "The Walking Dead") has been cast in New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures' Final Destination 5, the latest 3-D sequel arriving in theaters August 26, 2011, reports AITH.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/21530

Exclusive: Emma Bell Talks Final Destination 5
11/22/10
by Joseph McCabe


Since guest-starring in a string of genre TV shows in 2009 (among them "Supernatural", "Dollhouse" and "Ghost Whisperer"), Emma Bell has become one of the hottest actresses in horror – with starring roles in director Adam Green's Frozen, the upcoming Final Destination 5, and of course the zombie TV sensation "The Walking Dead".



I caught up with Bell this weekend, during a break in shooting the latest Final Destination, and she chatted about her role in the film.








How's the shoot going?
What's the Final Destination 5 experience been like?

It's a lot of screaming and running and being terrified. [Laughs].

Of course it's all shot in 3D, which has been a very interesting experience for me. It's a really elaborate process, 3D.





How much shooting time remains?

We have about two weeks left. We're near the end.












Did Frozen lead to your casting in Final Destination 5?

I think that everything leads to something. Had I not had the experience of Frozen, and working in those conditions, and leading a film, I don't know that had I the audition for Final Destination, I would have been able to have the skill set to actually get it done.

Craig Perry, who is a producer on Final Destination 5 – he's been part of the Final Destination series since the beginning – he really liked Frozen. Whether or not that played a hand in it, I don't know. There's a lot of things that get thrown into the pot when it comes to casting movies. But yeah, I think it definitely helped.

"The Walking Dead" helped too. The fact that I had just come off of something. That's always nice, to have something exciting right behind you. That's always good.









What can you say about your character in Final Destination 5?

I play a character named Molly Harper. She's sort of your very typical good girl. She lives in a small town. She's very much in love with the main character in the movie; Sam Lawton is the character's name.

But she has struggles. She's a normal woman. She doesn't really know what she wants in life yet, and so that sometimes comes in the way of her relationship and comes in the way of her goals and her dreams.

Of course when the big scenario happens in Final Destination, as in all of them, that gets completely thrown out of whack for her, and she has to start making some decisions and deciding what is important in her life.










Had you seen the other Final Destination films?

I saw the first one, and never wanted to get on a plane again. [Laughs].
I saw bits of the second and third one.
I haven't seen the fourth.


But I actually really enjoyed the first one. I thought it was really entertaining, and pretty terrifying.





It's a creative film.

Yeah. It's a great idea.

I feel like everyone has that moment, when they're flying or driving or even when they're on an amusement ride – you have that question: "What if this was all to go wrong?" You kind of visualize what would happen, but thankfully it's all in your head.

It was really interesting that they would create from that, because I think everyone has that. I certainly do, whenever I'm driving. I'm like, "You know, if that truck were just to make a wrong turn, I bet it would be really bad for him." [Laughs].

http://www.fearnet.com/news/interviews/b21036_exclusive_emma_bell_talks_lsquothe.html

First Photos from Final Destination 5!
Source: Ryan Turek, Managing Editor
November 23, 2010


Warner Bros. has supplied us with two images from the forthcoming Final Destination 5 (that appears to be the official title at this time)

It opens on August 26, 2011.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=17288

Two More Final Destination Sequels Shooting Back-to-Back?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
By: MrDisgusting


While out promoting the DVD/Blu-ray release of Hatchet II Tony Todd was asked what to expect from the upcoming Final Destination 5.

Todd told Dread Central, "Thumbs up! Thumbs way up. They expanded my part, and the producer told me as we were leaving Vancouver that if it opens at Number 1 – which statistically it has – they’re going to shoot the next two simultaneously."

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/23263

Death By Bridge In First Final Destination 5 Trailer
Monday, May 9, 2011
By: David Harley


The trailer for Final Destination 5 was released online early this morning.

Directed by Steven Quale and written by Eric Heisserer, the newest entry centers around a suspension bridge collapse and Death's ability to find creative ways to kill the survivors.

From the trailer, it looks like Tony Todd has a much more prominent role, but we'll find out for sure on August 12.




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http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/24473

Death Takes Spotlight in Final Destination 5 Teaser Poster!
Monday, May 9, 2011
By: MrDisgusting


Earlier this morning we brought you the first official trailer for Final Destination 5, while we just now got our hands on a insanely cool teaser poster that features a skull will the number 5 driving through it like a snake.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/24493

Final Destination 5 Poster is Destructive
Source: Arrow in the Head
June 21, 2011


Our man John Fallon over at Arrow had a reader send in this early look at the new one-sheet for Final Destination 5. This art highlights the opening destruction sequence.


What I think is amusing is that it says it's "from the writer of A Nightmare on Elm Street" which will lead some to think...Wes Craven.

Actually, it's the writer of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 Eric Heissere, who was brought in to rewrite Wesley Strick's draft of the redo.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=19647

The Final Poster for Final Destination 5!
Source: Yahoo!
June 29, 2011


The latest one-sheet for Final Destination 5 is here, introducing some severe skull punishment.

The latest entry opens August 12.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=19760

The Destruction of an International Final Destination Poster
Monday, July 4, 2011
By: MrDisgusting


We have added an English-language version inside, thanks to reader 'jarredah'.

Warner Bros. will release in theaters August 12.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/25205

New Final Destination 5 Trailer Debuts
Source: Metacafe
July 7, 2011


New Line has just debuted, through MetaCafe, another trailer for their upcoming Final Destination 5, hitting theaters on August 12th.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=19861

I am going to pass on anymore Final Destinations 1 & 2 were great, 3 and 4 sucked so I cant imagine 5 being any better. Final Destination with Devon Sawa had such earnest and urgency along with spooky mood music that I believed (Or went along with) the movie. 3, 4 asnd 5 just seem paint by numbers.

I am going to pass on anymore Final Destinations 1 & 2 were great, 3 and 4 sucked so I cant imagine 5 being any better. Final Destination with Devon Sawa had such earnest and urgency along with spooky mood music that I believed (Or went along with) the movie. 3, 4 asnd 5 just seem paint by numbers.

Yeah I will agree with you on that. 1 and 2 were great, and 3 is when it started to go downhill.

4 was only good for the visual/FX.

However, I am looking forward to Tony Todd in this one.


Back then I didn't imagine this franchise still being around more than 10 years later, same thing for The Fast and The Furious.