The remake of Poltergeist began filming last September and a release date has just been announced, but we're in for a good wait until it hits theaters. It has been officially announced that the new Poltergeist movie will be released on February 13th, 2015.
A Friday, the 13th release worked quite well for Insidious: Chapter 2, so Fox is likely hoping for a similar bump from the superstitious date. On the same weekend, Fifty Shades of Grey and Spongebob SquarePants 2 are set to be released, but it's far enough away that we expect some of these dates to change.
Gil Kenan (Monster House) is directing from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz: The Great and Powerful). The film is being produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert via Ghost House Pictures, along with Roy Lee. Here's the official synopsis provided by MGM and Fox:
"In a revisionist take on the classic horror film, a family struggling to make ends meet relocates to an outdated suburban home and is confronted by an angry spirit who kidnaps their youngest daughter and challenges them to band together to rescue her from the clutches of evil."
As far as casting goes, Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt star as the Bowen parents, who move their family to a new home. Their children will be played by Saxon Sharbino, Kennedi Clements, and Kyle Catlett. Jared Harris (Lincoln, The Quiet Ones) will play the star of a TV show, titled Haunted House Cleaners, and it was recently announced that Jane Adams (Hung) will play a parapsychologist that tries to help the family.
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