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Mint
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
'Final Destination: Bloodlines' OTT release: When and where to watch this horror movie
After a strong theatrical run, Final Destination: Bloodlines—the sixth instalment in the high-grossing horror franchise—has landed on OTT platforms, giving digital audiences a chance to catch up with the latest chapter in the cult series. Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, the film premiered in theatres on May 16 and arrived on Amazon Prime Video India on June 17. With a global box office collection of $271.7 million, it has already become the most commercially successful film in the Final Destination franchise to date. Final Destination: Bloodlines is currently available on Prime Video in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. The film can be rented for ₹ 399 or purchased for ₹ 499. It's also available on Apple TV with similar rental and purchase options. For audiences in the U.S., Warner Bros. has also made the title available on platforms like Fandango at Home and Movies Anywhere, with a physical release—including Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Steelbook editions—scheduled for July 22. A collector's box set of all six Final Destination films will also hit the shelves that day. The film introduces a new protagonist, Stefani Reyes (played by Kaitlyn Santa Juana), who begins experiencing disturbing premonitions tied to her family's past, specifically, a catastrophic hotel collapse from 1968. As Stefani investigates the eerie visions, she uncovers a multigenerational curse linked to her grandmother, Iris Campbell. The narrative plays on the franchise's hallmark theme—death's unstoppable pursuit—with a fresh twist centred on inherited trauma. Tony Todd reprises his role as the ominous William Bludworth, anchoring the story in franchise continuity. Bloodlines opened to ₹ 4.5 crore in India and has grossed over ₹ 76 crore domestically, despite competition from Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning and local titles. In North America, the film earned $130.64 million, ranking it among the top 20 highest-grossing horror films of all time in the region. Its international earnings stood at $141.1 million, pushing the global total past $271 million against a $50 million production budget. Critical reception has also been favourable, with the film holding a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the best-reviewed entry in the franchise. For fans of horror and franchise cinema, Final Destination: Bloodlines offers both nostalgia and a new narrative arc. With a strong box office track record and high streaming accessibility, the film underscores the growing synergy between theatrical releases and premium digital platforms.
Forbes
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Directors Of ‘Final Destination Bloodlines,' Now On Streaming, Talk Tony Todd's Emotional Role
Tony Todd in "Final Destination Bloodlines." Final Destination Bloodlines, new on streaming on Tuesday, gave directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky the chance to work with Final Destination franchise star Tony Todd, but the experience was bittersweet. Todd, who died on Nov. 6, 2024, at age 69, reprised his iconic role of William John Bludworth in Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth film in the Final Destination movie franchise that began in 2000. Todd — who also played the lead role in the hit Candyman horror series — appeared as Bludworth in the first Final Destination film and reprised the role in the second, fifth and sixth chapters of the franchise. In addition, Todd's voice is featured in Final Destination 3. In Final Destination Bloodlines, Kaitlyn Santa Juana stars as Stefanie, a college student traumatized by recurring dreams of the deadly collapse of the Skyview, a posh restaurant and music lounger housed in a Seattle Space Needle-like tower in 1968. As Stefanie comes to learn, her dream is a premonition her future grandmother Iris (Brec Bassinger) had, and that she warned the Skyview's patrons of the impending disaster, saving dozens of lives. Unlike the previous Final Destination chapters, death is not only coming to claim the survivors of the Skyview collapse, but all of the members in the survivor's bloodlines, which spans two more generations. Owen Patrick Joyner, Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Adam Stein, Tony Todd, Teo Briones, Zach Lipovsky, Rya ... More Kihlstedt and Richard Harmon on the set of 'Final Destination Bloodlines.' Todd appears in a pivotal scene in the third act, where Iris' clues lead Stefanie and her other family members to the mysterious mortician who has a unique insight about death to give them answers. In a Zoom conversation prior to the release of Final Destination Bloodlines, Stein said of Todd, 'He was very physically weak and ill. You could kind of see it just in how different he looks from how he used to look. So, we felt very emotional the day he arrived on set.' Despite the fact that he was ailing, Stein said Todd was 'very joyful' and 'so excited' to be on the Final Destination Bloodlines set. 'He was sick, and he'd been in and out of doctors and all that stuff. But this was like a true highlight for him, and you could see just in the way that he interacted with the crew and the other actors,' Stein said. 'He felt so joyful to be there, which puts in context his final words on screen," the director added. "He was living by the motto he said at the door, which is, 'Life is precious. Enjoy every single moment,' and that's what he was doing when he was on set for those scenes.' Note: The next section includes spoilers from 'Final Destination Bloodlines.' During the opening scene of Final Destination Bloodlines, Stefanie's dream of Iris' premonition tells how Iris befriended one of the singers at the Skyview restaurant and lounge, as well as her young son. As it turns out, the boy is the young William John Bludworth. As such, Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky were thrilled to bring the story of Tony Todd's iconic character full circle. 'In the other Final Destination movies, he's this very interesting, mysterious creepy presence and you don't know why he knows so much about death,' Stein said. 'But there's an element of it that goes into trope territory of, 'He's a mysterious mentor figure who isn't really a full character.' So, we thought in this movie, it was a real opportunity to cut to explore who Bloodworth is as a human being and how he knows so much about death and why he knows so much about death.' As a result, Stein and Lipovsky seized the opportunity to give Bludworth a backstory — which as audiences come to learn, involves Iris and her premonition that saved dozens of people including the young Bludworth. 'We wanted to explain, 'What was he doing there in those other movies? How does he know so much about death? Why does he creep up on people who are suffering from this premonition? It's because. He personally went through it,' Stein noted. 'It's because he is facing the same mortality. Death is coming after him eventually. So, his friendship with Iris and their research about death over the decades is what gave him that expertise,' Stein added. 'Final Destination Bloodlines gave us a really exciting opportunity to kind of give more dimension to the Bludworth character that fit with the other movies but also felt fresh.' While Bloodworth's story is brought full circle in Final Destination Bloodlines, the film doesn't bring the Final Destination story as a whole full circle, the directors said. True, death comes looking for all those who cheated it in the Final Destination movie series, the victims are not part of the bloodlines of characters in the latest chapter in the hit horror series. "People have been theorizing that [they are related]. I don't think we go that far, because that would mean that a lot of the characters from previous movies their parents would have had to die as well, which they didn't, necessarily,' Lipovsky said with a laugh. 'But, we wanted to create that type of feeling of 'This is an origin story, at least for Bludworth, and how he became so obsessed with death.' Final Destination Bloodlines is now available on digital streaming via premium video on demand.
Forbes
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Final Destination: Bloodlines' Is Now Streaming—How To Watch The Horror Sequel At Home
Final Destination Bloodlines Courtesy of Warner Bros. The wait is finally over for horror fans! After its successful theatrical release in May, Final Destination: Bloodlines, the highest-grossing film in the beloved franchise, is now available to stream from home. Read on to learn how to watch it for your next scary movie night. Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, Final Destination: Bloodlines marks the sixth installment in the Final Destination film franchise, which includes Final Destination (2000), Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Final Destination (2009), and Final Destination 5 (2011). The film takes audiences 'back to the very beginning of Death's twisted sense of justice,' according to the synopsis. 'Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefani heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle – her grandmother, Iris – and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all." Ahead of its digital debut, the sequel has grossed $271 million worldwide, including an impressive $130 million in domestic sales. It is now the highest-grossing Final Destination movie in the long-running franchise, surpassing 2009's The Final Destination, which holds second place with $66 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Final Destination: Bloodlines is also the best-rated Final Destination installment on Rotten Tomatoes, boasting a 92% critics score based on 209 reviews and an 87% audience score from over 5,000 verified ratings. In his glowing review for The Wrap, film critic William Bibbiani praised the film. 'We're here for the kills and, again, every single kill in 'Final Destination Bloodlines' is a winner," he wrote. "Every time a head explodes, which is a lot, you'll want to stand up and cheer. We know the cast and crew can't hear us. Duh. It's a knee-jerk, instinctual reaction to dazzling showmanship.' Final Destination: Bloodlines Courtesy of Warner Bros. Final Destination: Bloodlines is currently available to stream on video-on-demand platforms, including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Fandango At Home. You can purchase Final Destination: Bloodlines for $24.99 or rent the film for $19.99. For rentals, you have 30 days to start watching the video and 48 hours to finish once started. Final Destination Bloodlines Courtesy of Warner Bros. Final Destination: Bloodlines will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD on July 22, 2025. The Final Destination 6-Film Collection will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD the same day. Both the digital and physical editions of Final Destination: Bloodlines will include special features. Check them out below. Final Destination: Bloodlines Courtesy of Warner Bros. Final Destination: Bloodlines is distributed by Warner Bros., which means the supernatural horror film will arrive on Max at a later date. The studio typically adds its theatrical releases to the platform between 60 and 100 days after their premiere. With that timeline in mind, Final Destination: Bloodlines could arrive on Max sometime between mid-July and late August 2025. Looking at other Warner Bros. films, the studio's blockbuster hit A Minecraft Movie is launching on Max on June 20, more than two months after its theatrical debut. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire began streaming on Max 97 days after its release in theaters, while the 2023 movie musical Wonka had a shorter window, arriving on Max 84 days after hitting theaters. Stay tuned to find out when exactly Final Destination: Bloodlines will begin streaming on Max. Watch the official trailer below.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Which ‘Final Destination' Is the Best? All 6 Installments (Including 'Bloodlines') Ranked From Worst to Best
After a 14-year hiatus, the Final Destination franchise returns to cinemas with the franchise's sixth installment, Bloodlines. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein's update-cum-soft-reboot has scored franchise-best critical notices, with our review noting it's 'exactly what fans are after' and a perfect entry point for newcomers while also providing ample fan service. One of the most consistent franchises ever produced (there's no outright bad installment in the Final Destination series, just some less-than-stellar ones), the films roundly follow a teenager who has a psychic vision of a terrible, mass-casualty event before saving most of the people whom Death is about to claim. But, unfortunately for them, Death likes to have his way and sets out balancing the scales by knocking them off in excessively grisly accidents, most of which involve formerly benign household implements like beer bottles and cuticle scissors. With Final Destination: Bloodlines now in cinemas, we've ranked each movie in the Final Destination series from worst to best. Do you agree with our picks?At a merry high school graduation party held at an amusement park, Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) envisions a deadly rollercoaster crash. After saving her friends, Death begins picking them off one by one. Part one director James Wong returned to helm this second sequel, but it proves only that Wong misunderstands the series he helped create. There's an odd line of leeriness which runs through this one, which dooms the female characters to the most gruesome fates and casts all the male figures as hollering, pumped-up bullies of different stripes. There's fun stuff here, like a grisly nail gun gag, but it's the closest the series has come to being an outright drag. Whilst enjoying the reverie of youth at a NASCAR event in this fourth installment, Nick (Bobby Campo) envisions a grisly crash in which the stands are wiped out. After saving his friends, Death begins picking them off one by one. Incredibly cheap-looking but undeniably fun in a no-frills exploitation kind of way, The Final Destination sees part two director David R. Ellis return for another round of carnage — this time in 3D! The addition of another dimension (several months before the release of Avatar, no less) gives this sequel a bit of a jolt, though the amateurish acting and achingly overlit color palette (to counterbalance the darkening effect of 3D, one assumes) give the whole enterprise the feeling of a cheap Syfy channel on a corporate retreat, Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto) envisions a horrific bus crash which claims the lives of himself and his co-workers. After saving his friends, Death…well, you get it. The second installment to receive the 3D treatment, Final Destination 5 is a particularly clever sequel that proved the franchise still had legs. Directed by James Cameron protégé Steven Quale, the film is notable for two reasons: It introduces the oft-derided twist that its characters can cheat Death's plan by killing another person, therefore adopting the time they have left; and it ends on a terrific twist which, at long last, ties the franchise together. It's too good to spoil here. Embarking on a class trip to Paris, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) envisions a disaster which claims the lives of everyone on their flight. After the survivors begin dying in bizarre ways, Alex and fellow survivor Clear Rivers (Ali Larter) set out to unravel the mystery behind Death's plan. Final Destination is a very good post-Scream teen chiller, but it's just an above-average Final Destination movie. After you've seen the sequels and have an awareness of the franchise's general concept, it feels as though this first installment takes altogether too much time to get to the point. Despite clever set piece design and some very fine acting, Final Destination feels like an outline of itself. There are just brief flashes of the Rube Goldbergian antics that would arrive in sequels; only one sequence achieves the silly yet visceral terror that the franchise would soon by disturbing visions featuring her grandmother as a young woman, Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) returns to her estranged family to figure out why Death has his sights set on them. An exceptionally well-tuned sequel. As fun as the Final Destination series has always been, few would argue that they were genuinely good movies with proper arcs and character development. Quite surprisingly, Bloodlines reverses course and delivers a Final Destination movie which is unabashedly gruesome, terrifically silly and overwrought, but admirably heartfelt and well-produced. A great deal of thought went into this sequel, and it shows. On her way to a spring break getaway, Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) envisions a gruesome highway pileup. She teams with a cop (Michael Landes) and original survivor Clear Rivers to put a stop to Death's plan. Unequivocally the most fun and most disgusting of the Final Destination flicks, stuntman-turned-director David R. Ellis's cracking sequel kicks off with one of the best car crash sequences ever put to film and gains speed from there. There is a gleefully politically incorrect, Italianate video-nasty quality to Final Destination 2, which makes rewatching it even two decades later feel taboo and slightly indecent. That's a huge compliment, by the way.
Pink Villa
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Final Destination Bloodlines Day 19 India Box Office: Supernatural horror film holds steady with Rs 45L, total past Rs 50 crore
Final Destination: Bloodlines continues to maintain a steady run at the Indian box office, netting Rs 45 lakh on Day 19, today. This adds to the already impressive local haul of the supernatural horror thriller, cementing its success in the domestic market. The title's India box office performance now stands at approximately Rs 50 crore, combining the stellar collection from its first two weeks and recent daily figures. Below is the detailed breakdown of Final Destination: Bloodlines' India box office collections: Final Destination: Bloodlines is the sixth installment in the popular American supernatural horror franchise, for those uninitiated. Zach Lipovsky directed the much-anticipated continuation of the decades-spanning saga that began as a reboot. Guy Busick and Lori Evans handled the screenplay, featuring Kaitlyn Santa Juana as a college student who inherits premonitions of an avoided 1968 catastrophe from her dying grandmother. As her vision becomes clearer, she discovers death is seeking what it was once denied by closing in on her family. Santa Juana's character must race against time to save her clan from meeting the envisioned tragic ending. The supporting cast includes Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and franchise veteran Tony Todd. After the success of Final Destination 5, the new film, as mentioned earlier, was described as a reimagining of the franchise set in the world of first responders. In October 2020, however, it was confirmed by series creator Jeffrey Reddick that the film would serve as the sixth official installment. Originally slated for a streaming release on HBO Max, Warner Bros. Pictures switched gears in March 2024, announcing a full theatrical rollout instead. The move appears to be paying off well so far, given its USD 229 million worldwide revenue since its May 16 global launch. Bloodlines currently ranks as the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2025. As it continues to perform exceedingly well in India and overseas, Final Destination: Bloodlines reaffirms the franchise's enduring appeal among horror fans.
