Hot on the heals of a $18.3 million box office opening, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Films are moving ahead with a sequel to the horror film SAW, set for a Halloween 2005 release.
"We were confident going into this weekend as the only new horror release that we would hit our target audience of genre fans, but this has exceeded all our expectations," said Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing. "With SAW, James Wan and Leigh Whannell have tapped into filmgoers' most base fears and have created something that people immediately feel they need to talk about with others, and see again to catch clues they may have missed the first time.
"We are thrilled about the strong opening weekend of SAW. Lions Gate's marketing and distribution team has done a phenomenal job and we're very excited to be partnering with them again on SAW 2," said Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Gregg Hoffman.
Directed by 27-year-old James Wan and written by 27-year-old co-star Leigh Whannell, SAW follows a madman who, obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, abducts morally wayward people and forces them to play horrific games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his/her life, or else die trying. The film stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Dina Meyer, Ken Leung and Leigh Whannell.
Lions Gate Ent. is the premier independent producer and distributor of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment and video-on-demand content. For more information, go to www.lionsgatefilms.com.
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