Friday’s BlumFest 2025 panel at New York Comedian Con teased celebrating the studio’s fifteenth anniversary with appearances by the Black Telephone 2 and 5 Nights at Freddy’s sequel groups, unique footage and the announcement of Megan Fox as a part of FNAF 2’s voice forged.
Producer and Blumhouse studio founder Jason Blum opened the panel, talking to the place he’d need to go in one other decade and a half. “One of many issues I’m proudest of is discovering and empowering new expertise. Individuals who haven’t carried out horror, or perhaps have carried out just a little little bit of horror. Folks like Jordan Peele,” he advised the gang. “What I’m actually trying ahead to is assembly and hopefully producing the following technology of horror. In all probability probably the most thrilling half about my job, particularly as I become older, is working with younger individuals who have imaginative and prescient and vitality.”
He additionally shouted out a number of upcoming movie and TV titles, similar to Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. “I simply noticed it two weeks in the past, however you’re gonna be very completely happy about it, however I’m not supposed to speak it up an excessive amount of. It’s actually cool,” he shared. He then shouted out the Jessica Chastain-led and Rob Savage directed The Different Mommy and the sequence Scarpetta, with Nicole Kidman.
At one level in the course of the panel, the viewers obtained a message from The Additional, with Blum noting that Insidious: The Purple Door will arrive subsequent fall. Throughout one other portion of the panel, 9 inch Nails’ and Eyes Out Studio’s Robin Finck arrived on stage to tease Sleep Awake, the upcoming Blumhouse sport that makes use of full movement video throughout the 3D sport area.
“It’s set in a surprising world, really of environmental storytelling, and it leverages distinctive story-driven puzzles with intense stealth and chase sequences,” he mentioned. “We’re enjoying in a world the place everyone seems to be in a panic to stay awake as a result of those that succumb to sleep inexplicably vanish. Individuals are disappearing, leaving solely void shadows behind.” The soundtrack can be launched on Milan Information.
Learn on for extra on Black Telephone 2 and 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 reveals at BlumFest 2025.
5 Nights at Freddy’s 2
Blum, director Emma Tammi, actor Elizabeth Lail and Matthew Lillard all made appearances over the past portion of Friday’s panel, the place the director teased that followers can anticipate “a bunch extra animatronics.” That features Toy Freddie and Toy Bonnie, who made character appearances within the crowd. She additionally famous that there have been extra people, with Lael and Lillard each making appearances. By way of what the forged and inventive group have been enthusiastic about with the sequel, Lillard teased extra lore, extra bounce scares.
Tammi additionally revealed a number of sequel voice actors, together with Kellen Goff (Toy Freddy), MatPat (Toy Bonnie) and Megan Fox (Toy Chica). “Her children occur to be enormous 5 Nights at Freddy‘s followers as effectively. So she has heard about this world for a very long time from her children, and he or she was actually pumped to do the voice of Toy Chica. She did probably the most wonderful job. She needed to pay homage to the video games, but in addition make it her personal. And I’m so stoked for you guys to listen to her. She’s wonderful,” mentioned Tammi of Fox’s casting.
Black Telephone 2
Blum was joined by forged members Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Miguel Mora, Demián Bichir and creator Joe Hill appeared to tease the sequel and shared unique footage within the room. Past the clip, the group mentioned the first film’s impression, coming again for an additional movie and what tonally makes the sequel totally different from the unique.
“I wrote the story over 20 years in the past, and I bought paid like 35 bucks for it, so I used to be fairly psyched in regards to the movie, as a result of Jason Blum truly pays just a little bit higher,” Hill mentioned in regards to the preliminary response to the movies. “I knew it was in good fingers as a result of Scott Erickson and Robert Cargill have been tackling it, and every thing they’ve carried out has come from the guts. They care intensely in regards to the characters and put the characters first of their tales. I felt protected with them.”
Hawke spoke to Scott’s pitch on a sequel, noting that he bought it whereas in an airport. “Scott mentioned, ‘I actually have an thought for a sequel,’ and I paced the airport for about an hour as he form of described what this film is. It was breathtaking. Simply the dream of the film, every thing that it was,” he mentioned. “Within the years that the film has come out, the followers have actually grown and actually cared. Figuring out the script I’ve learn, we have been going to make lots of people actually completely happy.”
Added Thames, “When the film got here out, and the way the followers obtained it, and the way particular it was to so many individuals, was insane. It was such a whirlwind. So getting the prospect to carry it again, and convey these characters again on this world, increasing on that in a manner that I by no means may have imagined, it’s actually particular.”
McGraw teased what followers can anticipate coming again, whereas noting the way it was difficult for her. “Gwen is actually fully totally different from the place we left off within the first film. Clearly, years have passed by, and also you get to see the trauma and the way it has formed them, and the way they’ve tried to develop from it,” she mentioned. “She undoubtedly seems like an outcast now. She’s rather more reserved than she was within the first one, and I’m undoubtedly the alternative of that. I’m a really social and extroverted individual, so I really feel like, in plenty of methods, particularly with all of the emotional scenes, it undoubtedly examined my skills as an actor.”
Added Mora, “Black Telephone 2 revolves so deeply across the trauma that these characters undergo, and that they expertise was the terrifying grabber,” he mentioned. “Grief is a type of very heavy issues with these characters. Ernesto misplaced his brother within the first one, and getting into this new perspective was undoubtedly fairly the problem, however one thing I actually loved.”