Press Release USHE Press Release: The Exorcist: Believer (DIGITAL) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN, DARE TO WATCH AT HOME THE NEWEST CHAPTER IN THE CLASSIC HORROR SAGA FOR THE FIRST TIME

OWN OR RENT ON DIGITAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 THE ONLY WAY TO WATCH AT HOME WHILE STILL IN THEATERS FROM BLUMHOUSE, MORGAN CREEK AND UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Universal City, California, October 23, 2023 – As it continues its theatrical run, the chilling new horror film from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER, will be available exclusively on digital platforms where you can rent or buy tomorrow, October 24, 2023, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. 50 years after the most terrifying horror film shocked the world, THE EXORCIST: BELIEVERis a brand-new chapter in the saga, directly following on the groundbreaking original 1973 film. Since his wife’s death, Victor (Leslie Odom Jr.) has raised his daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) alone. After Angela and her friend (Olivia O’Neill) return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior. Victor’s best hope is to find the only person who has seen anything like this before: Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn), whose haunting experience with her daughter Regan may be the key to combating ultimate evil. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green (Halloween, Prince Avalanche), THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER stars Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, One Night in Miami), Ann Dowd (Hereditary, Compliance), Jennifer Nettles (Harriet), Norbert Leo Butz (Dan in Real Life, Give or Take), Lidya Jewett (Hidden Figures, Good Girls), and reprising her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream). For more information on THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER, please visit: Filmmakers: Cast: Leslie Odom, Jr., Lidya Jewett, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, with Ann Dowd and Ellen Burstyn Casting By: Terri Taylor CSA, Sarah Domeier Lindo CSA, Ally Conover CSA Music By: David Wingo, Amman Abbasi Costume Designer: Lizz Wolf Editor: Tim Alverson ACE Production Designer: Brandon Tonner-Connolly Director Of Photography: Michael Simmonds Executive Producers: Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Stephanie Allain, Ryan Turek, Brian Robinson, Christopher Merrill Produced By: David Robinson p.g.a., James G. Robinson, Jason Blum p.g.a. Screen Story By: Scott Teems & Danny McBride & David Gordon Green Screenplay By: Peter Sattler & David Gordon Green Directed By: David Gordon Green

 

[Bryan Tuck]

Wow. Only 2-1/2 weeks after its theatrical release.

I'm starting to wonder why studios are still even bothering to put their movies in theaters at all.

 

[EricSchulz]

Any idea which streaming service will even get it? If it’s not a Disney release I can’t keep track of which service gets which titles!

 

[Tino]

Any idea which streaming service will even get it? If it’s not a Disney release I can’t keep track of which service gets which titles!

Peacock.

 

[Tino]

Wow. Only 2-1/2 weeks after its theatrical release.

I'm starting to wonder why studios are still even bothering to put their movies in theaters at all.

The recent Halloween films for instance premiered day and date on PEACOCK with the theatrical releases which did fine nonetheless.

 

[Bryan Tuck]

The recent Halloween films for instance premiered day and date on PEACOCK with the theatrical releases which did fine nonetheless.

I know KILLS did that, but that was in 2021 when we were still at the height of Covid (even though it's still technically an issue for many). It was the same with ENDS?

At any rate, that was specifically on Peacock alone and for a limited time, similar to the HBO Max situation in 2021. For Exorcist, this is a general digital rental/sale release; available anywhere.

It just seems an odd business strategy (though that's been par for the course with the studios recently).

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Universal has a deal with theaters where if films don’t gross a certain amount of money within 17 days, they are allowed to put them on PVOD, and they give the theaters a cut of that revenue.

Most films nowadays gross the majority of their theatrical earnings within their first two weekends. They could have kept this in theaters exclusively for six more months and that wouldn’t have changed that the majority of people inclined to pay to see it in a theater already have.

 

[Tino]

It was the same with ENDS?

Yes

 

[Malcolm R]

Best Buy seems to be taking pre-orders for an exclusive Steelbook (probably one of their last). No release date yet.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/the-exorcist-believer-steelbook-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-only--best-buy/6561850.p?skuId=6561850

 

[Todd Erwin]

A man fell asleep during 'The Exorcist: Believer' and woke up at 3:47 a.m locked inside an empty theater

Viewers of his viral TikTok asked Jeffrey Bryant if he raided the snack stand and wondered how he possibly fell asleep during the horror film.

www.insider.com

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of how good this movie might be...