{"id":102388,"date":"2018-04-09T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=102388"},"modified":"2018-04-09T01:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T00:00:42","slug":"the-grudge-reboot-gets-a-release-date-from-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-grudge-reboot-gets-a-release-date-from-sony\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grudge reboot gets a release date from Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s mysterious re-imagining of\u00a0<em><strong>The Grudge<\/strong><\/em> has finally been given a release date: the film is set to hit cinemas on <strong>16 August 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The reboot is coming from Sam Raimi\u2019s Ghost House Pictures. Nicolas Pesce, the writer and director of the chilling indie horror\u00a0<strong><em>The Eyes Of My Mother<\/em><\/strong>, has signed on to direct and rewrite the script, which had been written by\u00a0<strong><em>Midnight Meat Train<\/em><\/strong>\u2018s Jeff Buhler. Confirmed cast members include John Cho (<em><strong>Star Trek<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>The Exorcist<\/strong><\/em>) and Andrea Riseborough<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(<em><strong>The Death Of Stalin<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Black Mirror<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The original 2002 Japanese film, known as\u00a0<em><strong>Ju-on: The Grudge<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0was directed by Takashi Shimizu. It ended up spawning a US remake starring Sarah Michelle Geller in 2004, followed by two sequels in 2006 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Grudge<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0reboot is in cinemas from 16 August 2019. Get all the latest horror news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s re-imagining of The Grudge finally has a release date <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":102389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2208],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/the-grudge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}