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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions Movie Storyline. After escaping the “sole survivor” escape rooms set up by Minos, Zoey and Ben decide to confront the shadowy organization after finding coordinates to their New York City-based headquarters in Minos’s logo. Zoey is encouraged by her therapist to move on and take a plane in an attempt to get over her fear of flying but Zoey opts to drive with Ben.
The pair find the headquarters derelict and are accosted by a vagrant who steals Zoey’s necklace. She and Ben give chase, being led into a subway train car and stuck inside. The train car separates from the rest of the train and is redirected to a remote station. The train seals Zoey, Ben, and other passengers Rachel, Brianna, Nathan, and Theo inside. Minos reveal themselves to be yet again pulling the strings and the train becomes electrified, becoming another escape room. Zoey and Ben learn that the others are survivors of previous Minos escape rooms.
The group realizes they have to collect subway tokens to escape the train as it rapidly gets more electrified. Theo is killed while the others manage to escape. As the group rest, Nathan reveals his escape room group were all priests while Brianna’s were all influencers. Rachel’s group consisted of people who cannot feel physical pain.
The survivors enter the next room, a bank room with a slowly closing fault and a deadly laser security system. Deciphering a complex route to get around the lasers, Nathan suffers a crisis of faith and knocks himself unconscious, activating the lasers. The group manages to figure out the route and escape with Nathan. While in the room, Zoey is perplexed by frequent references to someone called Sonya and the fact the escape rooms don’t have any connection to the group.
The next room is a beach complete with a shack, lighthouse, and more references to Sonya. As the group starts to figure out puzzles, the beach is revealed to be covered in quicksand. Nathan sacrifices himself to save Rachel and is swallowed up by the sand.
As Zoey figures out the room’s puzzle, she finds an alternate route out of the escape room just as Brianna unlocks the intended exit to the room. An argument between the group breaks out with Rachel and Ben siding with Zoey. Brianna escapes through the main exit while Rachel and Ben traverse the quicksand to the alternate route. Ben sinks beneath the quicksand and is seemingly killed.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (released in some markets as Escape Room: No Way Out) is a 2021 American psychological horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Will Honley, Maria Melnik, Daniel Tuch, and Oren Uziel. A sequel to 2019’s Escape Room, it stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, and Deborah Ann Woll reprising their roles from the first film, alongside new cast members Indya Moore, Holland Roden, Thomas Cocquerel, and Carlito Olivero, and follows a group of six people trying to survive a new series of more deadly escape rooms.
After the first film became a surprise hit in 2019, Columbia Pictures approved a sequel. Robitel returned as the director with Schut writing the script, and Russell and Miller reprising their roles alongside the addition of new cast members. Filming took place on Cape Town, South Africa, from August to September 2019.
The film was originally scheduled to be released on April 17, 2020. Its release date was subsequently changed several times, and in May 2020, it was scheduled to be released on January 1, 2021. In October 2020, Sony moved the film to sometime later in 2021. In January 2021, it was announced that the film’s release date would be pushed back again, to January 7, 2022. The film was later moved up to July 16, 2021. The film was first released in Australia on July 1, 2021.
When asked about whether the film would also be available to stream at the same time it was released to theaters to accommodate those uncertain of the safety of in-theater attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Robitel stated that the film will pursue a standard theatrical release with no streaming alternative because he believes that the darkness of the standard theater room would allow the film to be at its most frightening and thrilling.
As of August 22, 2021, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions has grossed $25.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $19.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $44.9 million. In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Space Jam: A New Legacy, and was projected to gross $7–10 million from 2,775 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $3.8 million on its first day, including $1.2 million from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $8.8 million, finishing third at the box office. It fell 60% in its second weekend to $3.5 million, finishing sixth.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Directed by: Adam Robitel
Starring: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Holland Roden, Indya Moore[, Thomas Cocquerel, Carlito Olivero, Jamie-Lee Money, Amali Golden, Evan Hengst, Tanya van Graan
Screenplay by: Will Honley, Maria Melnik, Daniel Tuch, Oren Uziel
Production Design by: Edward Thomas
Cinematography by: Marc Spicer
Film Editing by: Steven Mirkovich, Peter Pav
Costume Design by: Kati Chwist, Reza Levy
Set Decoration by: Nerissa Gill, Carma Le Roux, Tracy Perkins
Art Direction by: Hedvig Kiraly, Cecelia van Straaten, Mark Walker
Music by: Brian Tyler, John Carey
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, terror/peril and strong language.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Date: July 1, 2021 (Australia), July 16, 2021 (United States)
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