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Film Courage: What’s your reaction to this comment Anthony, “There isn’t anything new out there, just different actors with the same ideas, especially in the Hollywood industry?”
Anthony DiBlasi, Filmmaker: I think to some extent that’s true. It doesn’t have to be seen as a negative and as I’ve been in this business 20 years now, I was just talking to someone the other day, but I talk to my wife about it all the time that we’re always telling the same stories but you’re telling them to new generations.
I think that’s something that we forget that when they made Happy Death Day I was like Why would they make that movie? Groundhog’s Day was already made. I love Groundhog’s Day and I’m like Why are they making Happy Death Day? Then I went to see Happy Death Day with my wife and she loved it and I’m like This is a great movie. It’s a great movie. Blumhouse does that a lot, kind of taking Freaky Friday and taking these ideas and doing them. I think you have to go with the flow and say that’s actually a good thing because we have to remember that every day someone is being born, thousands of people are being born and they do not have time or care to go back and watch anything that came out years before they were born. It’s important I think to revisit old stuff and once they see something they’re like…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Anthony DiBlasi graduated film school at Emerson College in Boston MA. Upon moving to Los Angeles he became a protégé of filmmaker/novelist Clive Barker. DiBlasi partnered in Barker’s production company Midnight Picture Show for nearly ten years, serving as a key executive & producer on films such as “Midnight Meat Train” (2008) and “Book of Blood” (2009). DiBlasi made his directorial debut with the psychological thriller “Dread” (2009), a feature film he wrote based on the Clive Barker short story of the same name. “Dread” was released theatrically in January of 2010 and went on to win Best Independent Feature at the 2010 Spike Scream Awards. He directed and co-wrote “Last Shift” a critically acclaimed supernatural horror film released by Magnolia Pictures in 2015. And directed “Extremity” a psychological thriller based on Extreme Haunts, released in 2018 by Epic Pictures.
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