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There will be plenty of options for audiences eager to get back to theaters.

Actor, filmmaker and good guy extraordinaire John Krasinski taps in to something with his “A Quiet Place” films. It’s horror done in a way that’s at least more palatable for those such as me. After the onset of Jason Voorhees from the “Friday the 13th” films and Michael Myers in the “Halloween” series, which eventually led to the films such as those in the “Saw” collection, horror films often felt as if filmmakers placed the emphasis on who could be killed in the grisliest ...

John Krasinski shared on-air with Ryan Seacrest he had no plans to direct a sequel to the 2018 horror film. "I rewrote and directed the first one and the second one. I actually wasn’t going to do [the second one]," Krasinski shared. "The studio said, Were going to do a second one. And I said, Great! Who are you going to get to do it? Because I don’t think I’m ever going to tell as personal a story as that first one. As crazy as it sounds," the actor explained, "when you look at the poste...

John Krasinski shared on-air with Ryan Seacrest he had no plans to direct a sequel to the 2018 horror film. "I rewrote and directed the first one and the second one. I actually wasn’t going to do [the second one]," Krasinski shared. "The studio said, Were going to do a second one. And I said, Great! Who are you going to get to do it? Because I don’t think I’m ever going to tell as personal a story as that first one. As crazy as it sounds," the actor explained, "when you look at the poste...

A Quiet Place sequel is even better (and scarier) than the original Part II is suspenseful, moving and scary good.  May 27, 2021 — 1:08pm Text size Copy shortlink: The movies that studios held onto for more than a year, waiting until theatrical releases made sense, fell into a few categories: Those with the kind of impact that needed jumbo-sized screens. Those that were destined to be big hits. And those that were fantastic. "A Qui...

For die-hards, no horror movie can be too scary. But for you, a wimp, the wrong one can leave you miserable. Never fear, scaredies, because Slate’s Scaredy Scale is here to help. We’ve put together a highly scientific and  mostly spoiler-free system for rating new horror movies, comparing them with classics along a 10-point scale. And because not everyone is scared by the same things—some viewers can’t stand jump scares, while others are haunted by more psychological terrors or simp...

MOVIE REVIEW by Richard Roeper "A QUIET PLACE PART II" Three and a half stars Evelyn ............ Emily Blunt Emmett ............ Cillian Murphy Man on Island ..... Djimon Hounsou Paramount Pictures presents a film written and directed by John Krasinski. Rated PG-13 (for terror, violence and bloody/disturbing images). Running time: 97 minutes. Opens Thursday at local theaters. ** ** ** We begin at the real beginning, with a cacophony of sounds. The clanging of a bell announcing a new customer e...

M, 97 minutes You’ve got to have a gimmick to succeed in popular entertainment and actor-filmmaker John Krasinski hit on a good one when he directed and co-wrote the 2018 hit A Quiet Place, a riff on the tried-and-true alien invasion theme. Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and Evelyn (Emily Blunt) brave the unknown in A Quiet Place Part II. The gimmick is that the aliens are blind, but have acute hearing. So humans have a fighting chance as long as they’re silent, or other no...

After an eight-year comedic run on TV’s “The Office,” John Krasinski reinvented himself as a leading man in the rough-and-tumble Amazon version of Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan.” About that same

A Quiet Place 3 could happen, according to A Quiet Place Part II star Emily Blunt.