{"id":9609,"date":"2019-02-22T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:38:09","slug":"happy-death-day-2u-earns-big-at-the-box-office-during-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/happy-death-day-2u-earns-big-at-the-box-office-during-week-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Death Day 2U earns big at the box office during week one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clement Gibson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor-in-Chief<\/strong><\/p>\n

Universal\u2019s latest release, \u201cHappy Death Day 2U,\u201d appeared in theaters on Feb. 13, 2019.<\/p>\n

The sequel to 2017\u2019s \u201cHappy Death Day,\u201d brought a mixture of comedy and thrill to the big screen.<\/p>\n

The movie stars Jessica Rothe as<\/p>\n

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Tree Gelbman, a college girl who continues to wake up in a parallel universe.<\/p>\n

Israel Broussard stars as Carter, Tree\u2019s boyfriend but is in a relationship with her best friend and sorority sister, Danielle, played by Rachel Matthews, in this new universe.<\/p>\n

Tree finds out that Carter\u2019s roommate, Ryan is the reason for her continuous and unwanted time travel and wants to put an immediate stop to it.<\/p>\n

However, Tree and her new group of friends are targets of a masked killer and every time she dies, she wakes up right back where she started.<\/p>\n

This cycle happens several times before she realizes that she must die to save everyone; forcing her to choose between her mother and her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Categorized as a mystery\/slasher, the film seems more like comedy\/action. Nonetheless, the $9 million budget turned into $27 million in the first week according to \u201cForbes.com.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with a big profit margin, movie critics like \u201cIMDb,\u201d \u201cRotten Tomatoes\u201d and \u201cMetacritic\u201d rated the movie below average.<\/p>\n

IMDb gave the film a 6.7 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic respectively rated the movie 67 and 56 percent.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, others were pleased with what they saw. David Edelstein of \u201cVulture.com\u201d called it a just-as-fun sequel.<\/p>\n

\u201cStalk-and-kill movies bear some resemblance to classic farces, but no horror movies have taken the similarities as far as Happy Death Day and its busier, just-as-fun sequel, Happy Death 2U,\u201d said Edelstein.<\/p>\n

Sandy Schaefer of \u201cScreenrant.com\u201d complimented the genre twist in the sequel saying it made the film more entertaining.<\/p>\n

She stated, \u201cHappy Death Day 2U adds a genre twist to the series’ formula, delivering a sequel that’s funnier, sillier, and more entertaining than the first movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

A free screening was held at Cinemark (formerly Tinseltown) in Pearl, Miss., on Tuesday, February 12, and sold out nearly an hour before showtime.<\/p>\n

Darius Johnson, a senior biology pre-medicine major from Hattiesburg, Miss., says he was disappointed because the movie was not scary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movie was really repetitive. She died over and over again. When I saw the trailer, I thought it would be scary so that\u2019s why I decided to go. It was not scary at all. I did not jump once,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n

Tatiana Evans, a freshman social work major from Santa Cruz, Calif., thinks the first movie was better than the sequel.<\/p>\n

Evans stated, \u201cI liked the first movie better than this one because it was more original, but then again, it\u2019s basically the same thing as the 2017 movie. They only made this one because the last one made so much money.\u201d<\/p>\n

News of a third movie has already begun although the 2019 film has only been in theaters for a week.<\/p>\n

According to \u201cScreenrant.com,\u201d the third movie could conceivably hit theaters in late 2020 or early 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clement Gibson Editor-in-Chief Universal\u2019s latest release, \u201cHappy Death Day 2U,\u201d appeared in theaters on Feb. 13, 2019. The sequel to 2017\u2019s \u201cHappy Death Day,\u201d brought a mixture of comedy and thrill to the big screen. The movie stars Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, a college girl who continues to wake up in a parallel universe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-variety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}