Today, CATCHPLAY continues to look into investment and co-production opportunities internationally and in Asia targeting particularly Chinese-speaking territories and South East Asia following our recent expansion footprints.ĬATCHPLAY started placing significant emphasis on the development of digital movie content years before the others did in Taiwan. In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. The results are okay, but mildly annoying by the finale.In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. There is an epilogue scene that raises far more questions than the film can afford.ĭirector White does stage a few good jump scares and maintains a solid, moody atmosphere throughout. Sometimes other characters don’t react in ways that feel appropriate to the situation.įor that matter, exactly what the Queen of Spades is and how she operates seems to morph. However, Smirnov and Mary are both all over the place as characters, going back and forth on what they believe and what they’re willing to do multiple times. Likewise, Ohm puts conviction into everything she does as protective parent Mary. Kash gives a fine performance as a troubled expert and the young leads are all good. This is where QUEEN OF SPADES gets a bit wobbly.
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Sebastian tries to figure out how to save himself and his friends by contacting a man named Smirnov (Daniel Kash), who has written a book on the subject. It doesn’t take long for all four to realize that they have indeed summoned the Queen of Spades, who is definitely not at peace. On the other hand, we can buy Anna wanting to make a wish and wanting to impress the older boys, and the older boys being fame-seeking dolts.
Now, on the one hand, our protagonists did just see someone kill himself over the Queen. He and Matt persuade Anna to do a summoning ritual for the Queen of Spades, who is supposed to grant wishes if she’s at peace, but kill her summoners if she is agitated. Over Katy’s sensible objections, Sebastian researches “Queen of Spades” and finds the Russian mythology. Before the youth dies of his injuries, he mentions “the Queen of Spades.” While the quartet are in a park, they witness a fellow teen pacing the roof of a recreation center, then jumping to his death. Sebastian (Eric Osborne) and Matt (Nabil Rajo) are hoping to strike it rich with YouTube videos. Katy (Jamie Bloch) often babysits Anna when Mary isn’t home at night.
Her mother, Mary (Kaelen Ohm), is loving but working as a janitor to make ends meet while taking classes in hopes of a better life for them both.Īnna hangs out with a trio of seventeen-year-olds who live in the building. Thirteen-year-old Anna (Ava Preston) is a latchkey kid in a huge urban apartment complex. It starts reasonably enough, but then starts to feel arbitrary as it proceeds. The new QUEEN OF SPADES is directed by Patrick White, who co-wrote the screenplay with John Ainsley. That movie’s writer/director, Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, receives a “story by” credit here. This QUEEN OF SPADES is a new American remake of the 2015 Russian film QUEEN OF SPADES: THE DARK RITE (PIKOVAYA DAMA, CHYORNYY OBRYAD). The Queen is a figure out of Russian folklore (as explained in the film), much like Bloody Mary is for Americans. QUEEN OF SPADES is an entry in the subgenre of horror in which a demonic entity is summoned by chanting its name into a mirror. Writers: Patrick White, John Ainsley, story by Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy Stars: Ava Preston, Kaelen Ohm, Jamie Bloch, Daniel Kash, Eric Osborne, Nabil Rajo, Krista Marchand QUEEN OF SPADES movie poster | ©2021 Epic Pictures
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