Lions Gate Films has announced that Saw 2 is being fasttracked for a Halloween 2005 release.
“We were confident going into this weekend as the only new horror release that we would hit our target audience of genre fans, but this has exceeded all our expectations,” said Tom Ortenberg, President of Lions Gate Films Releasing. “With SAW, James Wan and Leigh Whannell have tapped into filmgoers’ most base fears and have created something that people immediately feel they need to talk about with others, and see again to catch clues they may have missed the first time,” he added.
Producers Burg, Koules, and Hoffman also commented. “We are thrilled about the strong opening weekend of SAW. Lions Gate’s marketing and distribution team has done a phenomenal job and we’re very excited to be partnering with them again on SAW 2.”
Credit: Cinecon.com
