Slated for release across the Philippines on July 21, “Lights Out” is distributed by Warner Bros. a short film fest and the not-to-be-missed Charitable Celebrity Village Games. “But I think no matter how many movies you've made, it comes down to taste, and you could tell right away David had it.” Local lights join Moscow's hot balalaika player Yury Aleksik for tunes. So he is very green," the producer laughed. Together with the arthouse cinema Kriterion, ENFF is organising a special film night of thought provoking shorts produced in Eastern Europe on 2nd of June. “The first movie set David was ever on was the set of his own Warner Bros. Grey said he realized the flier everyone was taking. “I think they thought I was more experienced than I was.” “I was a little shocked they would let me direct, because everything I had ever done on movies was in my apartment by myself," Sandberg said. With high-return genre investments such as “Annabelle” paying off in recent summers, New Line soon greenlighted the movie, fast-tracking it so that it was shooting in a manner of months, keeping Sandberg aboard. He soon brought on veteran horror screenwriter Eric Heisserer (2010’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street”) and James Wan (“Saw,” “The Conjuring” franchise), the latter spitballing a series of ideas with Sandberg. Grey saw in “Lights Out” the potential for a much larger story. One of the people who got in touch was Lawrence Grey, a producer known for variety of genre and other fare from newer creators. “I had to make a spreadsheet of all the people I talked to and what we said the last time we spoke.” I saw it had 8,000 views, and I thought, ‘That’s awesome.’ And then it had 70,000 views, and I thought, ‘That’s awesome too.’ And then it went to a million and it became a crazy circus,” he said of the movie, whose minimalist concept and undercurrent of jittery dread helped it hop borders. He was truly taken aback, though, when months later, in spring 2014, the short went everywhere. “I was almost surprised no one had explored it before.” “It’s something everyone experiences,” Sandberg said. He was soon playing with the effects (simple, involving a split screen) and turning the lights on and off. Sandberg had come up with the idea on a whim, as he thought about those innocuous bedroom silhouettes that look more ominous in themidnight dark. When Rebecca and Martin start spotting an apparition in the dark, they wonder if they too are suffering from a disorder. “Lights Out” (the full-length feature) centers on twentysomething Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) and her pre-adolescent brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman), whose mother, Sophie (Maria Bello), suffers from a disassociative mental illness that has her talking to a friend no one else sees.
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