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\n\tFriday\u2019s BlumFest 2025 panel at New York Comic Con teased celebrating the studio\u2019s 15th anniversary with appearances by the Black Phone 2 <\/em>and Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s<\/em> sequel teams, exclusive footage and the announcement of Megan Fox as part of FNAF 2<\/em>\u2019s voice cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tProducer and Blumhouse studio founder Jason Blum opened the panel, speaking to where he\u2019d want to go in another decade and a half. \u201cOne of the things I\u2019m proudest of is discovering and empowering new talent. People who haven\u2019t done horror, or maybe have done a little bit of horror. People like Jordan Peele,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cWhat I\u2019m really looking forward to is meeting and hopefully producing the next generation of horror. Probably the most exciting part about my job, especially as I get older, is working with young people who have vision and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe also shouted out several upcoming film and TV titles, such as Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy<\/em>. \u201cI just saw it two weeks ago, but you\u2019re gonna be very happy about it, but I\u2019m not supposed to talk it up too much. It\u2019s really cool,\u201d he shared. He then shouted out the Jessica Chastain-led and Rob Savage directed The Other Mommy<\/em> and the series Scarpetta<\/em>, with Nicole Kidman.<\/p>\n \n\tAt one point during the panel, the audience received a message from The Further, with Blum noting that Insidious: The Red Door<\/em> will arrive next fall. During another portion of the panel, Nine inch Nails\u2019 and Eyes Out Studio\u2019s Robin Finck arrived on stage to tease Sleep Awake<\/em>, the upcoming Blumhouse game that uses full motion video within the 3D game space.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s set in a stunning world, truly of environmental storytelling, and it leverages unique story-driven puzzles with intense stealth and chase sequences,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re playing in a world where everyone is in a panic to remain awake because those who succumb to sleep inexplicably vanish. People are disappearing, leaving only void shadows behind.\u201d The soundtrack will be released on Milan Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tRead on for more on Black Phone 2<\/em> and Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2<\/em> reveals at BlumFest 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBlum, director Emma Tammi, actor Elizabeth Lail and Matthew Lillard all made appearances during the last portion of Friday\u2019s panel, where the director teased that fans can expect \u201ca bunch more animatronics.\u201d That includes Toy Freddie and Toy Bonnie, who made character appearances in the crowd. She also noted that there were more humans, with Lael and Lillard both making appearances. In terms of what the cast and creative team were excited about with the sequel, Lillard teased more lore, more jump scares.<\/p>\n \n\tTammi also revealed several sequel voice actors, including Kellen Goff (Toy Freddy), MatPat (Toy Bonnie) and Megan Fox (Toy Chica). \u201cHer kids happen to be huge Five Nights at Freddy<\/em>\u2018s fans as well. So she has heard about this world for a long time from her kids, and she was really pumped to do the voice of Toy Chica. She did the most amazing job. She wanted to pay homage to the games, but also make it her own. And I\u2019m so stoked for you guys to hear her. She\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Tammi of Fox\u2019s casting.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBlum was joined by cast members Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Miguel Mora, Demi\u00e1n Bichir and author Joe Hill appeared to tease the sequel and shared exclusive footage in the room. Beyond the clip, the group discussed the first movie\u2019s impact, coming back for another film and what tonally makes the sequel different from the original.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI wrote the story over 20 years ago, and I got paid like 35 bucks for it, so I was pretty psyched about the film, because Jason Blum actually pays a little bit better,\u201d Hill said about the initial reaction to the films. \u201cI knew it was in good hands because Scott Erickson and Robert Cargill were tackling it, and everything they\u2019ve done has come from the heart. They care intensely about the characters and put the characters first in their stories. I felt safe with them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHawke spoke to Scott\u2019s pitch on a sequel, noting that he got it while in an airport. \u201cScott said, \u2018I really have an idea for a sequel,\u2019 and I paced the airport for about an hour as he kind of described what this movie is. It was breathtaking. Just the dream of the movie, everything that it was,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the years that the movie has come out, the fans have really grown and really cared. Knowing the script I\u2019ve read, we were going to make a lot of people really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAdded Thames, \u201cWhen the movie came out, and how the fans received it, and how special it was to so many people, was insane. It was such a whirlwind. So getting the chance to bring it back, and bring these characters back in this world, expanding on that in a way that I never could have imagined, it\u2019s really special.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMcGraw teased what fans can expect coming back, while noting how it was challenging for her. \u201cGwen is honestly completely different from where we left off in the first movie. Obviously, years have gone by, and you get to see the trauma and how it has shaped them, and how they\u2019ve tried to grow from it,\u201d she said. \u201cShe definitely feels like an outcast now. She\u2019s much more reserved than she was in the first one, and I am definitely the opposite of that. I\u2019m a very social and extroverted person, so I feel like, in a lot of ways, especially with all the emotional scenes, it definitely tested my abilities as an actor.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAdded Mora, \u201cBlack Phone 2<\/em> revolves so deeply around the trauma that these characters go through, and that they experience was the terrifying grabber,\u201d he said. \u201cGrief is one of those very heavy things with these characters. Ernesto lost his brother in the first one, and stepping into this new perspective was definitely quite the challenge, but something I really enjoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday\u2019s BlumFest 2025 panel at New York Comic Con teased celebrating the studio\u2019s 15th anniversary with appearances by the Black Phone 2 and Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s sequel teams, exclusive footage and the announcement of Megan Fox as part of FNAF 2\u2019s voice cast.\u00a0 Producer and Blumhouse studio founder Jason Blum opened the panel, speaking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1711,2621,16338,2112,7187,8684,8229],"class_list":{"0":"post-27355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cast","9":"tag-fox","10":"tag-freddys","11":"tag-joins","12":"tag-megan","13":"tag-nights","14":"tag-voice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\tFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2<\/em>\t<\/h3>\n
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