A few defenders aside, the majority of critics have read The Exorcist: Believer its last rites (the movie sits at an abysmal 22% on Rotten Tomatoes), but David Gordon Green's legacy sequel to William Friedkin's horror classic has still managed to perform reasonably well at the global box office.
Despite suffering a predictably steep second-week drop since opening in theaters last Friday, Believer has scared-up a respectable $85 million worldwide.
The film has a reported budget of just $30 million (excluding marketing costs), so this would seem like a pretty good result for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures... if they hadn't paid $400 million for the rights!
The plan is to make at least two more instalments, with The Exorcist: Deceiver set for release in 2025, but will the second movie even see the light of day? A recent report indicated that the studio still intends to move forward with the sequels, but there will be a creative "course change," and it's looking more and more likely that Green will not return to the director's chair.
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"Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes The Exorcist: Believer.
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil."
The Exorcist: Believer also stars Ann Dowd as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Jennifer Nettles and Norbert Leo Butz as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.
The movie is now in theaters, and Blumhouse has already announced a Digital release date of October 24. The Exorcist: Deceiver is currently set to arrive on April 18, 2025.