Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One is getting ready to bring chills to audiences.
Stars Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn on Thursday introduced extended footage of the prequel to movie theater owners gathered in Las Vegas this week for CinemaCon, where they are being briefed by Hollywood studio on their upcoming slates (the footage won’t be shared outside the room, since the movie is close to opening and there have been numerous trailers already).
The event spin-off pic is a cornerstone of Paramount’s slate, and hopes to be another win for the innovative horror franchise created by John Krasinski that turned into a major hit after successfully proving that original stories can work on a large commercial scale.
Krasinksi is a key member of Paramount’s inner circle of filmmakers, along with Neal H. Moritz, Ryan Reynolds and Damien Chazelle. During his time on stage Thursday, Paramount film boss Brian Robbins announced that Krasinski has renewed his first-look deal with Paramount. There’s also a new deal with Moritz, while Reynold’s Maximum Effort recently reupped its pact with the studio. Krasinski and Reynolds are also behind Paramount’s May pic IF, which was likewise was featured during Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation.
With these announcements, Robbins isn’t letting looming chances of a Viacom/Paramount sale stop him for pushing ahead and plotting out his slate. To the contrary much of Thursday’s presentation focused on 2025 titles, several of them new, and even titles dated for 2026. “Simply put, we are a home for the most talented filmmakers and storytellers and we have a bold and diverse slate of films coming you way,” Robbins said.
The acerbic exec didn’t try to ignore the very large elephant in the room when taking the stage at CinemaCon to speak to theater owners: “There’s been a lot of speculation about our parent company, around MMA activity, and in fact, our very own…
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