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Juliet Snowden is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for writing Knowing and Ouija. She is also known for co-writing screenplays with her husband Stiles White.
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Juliet Snowden. Writer: Knowing. Juliet Snowden is a screenwriter, producer, and documentary director. Born and raised in Louisiana, Juliet earned a degree in English and Creative Writing from Louisiana State University and also attended University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Debbie Galardi recalls playing Ouija with her best friend Laine Morris as children. In present day, she throws her Ouija board into the fire and implies to Laine that something strange happened with the board. After Laine leaves, the Ouija board reappears in Debbie's bedroom. Debbie becomes possessed and hangs herselfinside her home. Laine attends ...
Development
Ouija began development in May 2008 with Universal Pictures attached. David Berenbaum was hired to write the script, while Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Bryan Fuller of Platinum Dunes were slated to produce. In October 2010, the studio had set a release date of November 21, 2012. That same month, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis had written a new script, while Sylvain White, Scott Stewart, and Pierre Morel were in talks to direct. The film was described as a "four-quadrant supernatural adventu...
Pre-production
Across December 2013, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Smith, Bianca Santos, Erin Moriarty, Ana Coto, Vivis Colombetti, Daren Kagasoff, and Matthew Settlejoined the cast.
Filming
Principal photography began mid December 2013 in Los Angeles wrapped in January 2014. Reshoots took place in May 2014 after a poor test screening, which, according to Olivia Cooke, resulted in half the film being re-shot. With the reshoots, Lin Shaye was added to the film to play a newly written character, Erin Moriarty's character was removed from the film entirely, and new plot points were added or changed entirely. The most notable of changes included the character of Doris Zander's physic...
Theatrical
Universal released Ouija in the United States on October 24, 2014. A tie-in novelizationfor the film by Katharine Turner was released on September 16, 2014.
Home media
Ouija was released in the US on DVD and Blu-rayon February 3, 2015.
Box office
In North America, the film was released to 2,858 theaters and earned $19,875,995 on its opening weekend (including its $911,000 gross on Thursday preview nights and $8.3 million on its opening day). at an average of $7,000 per theater, debuting at number one at the box office ahead of newly released John Wick ($14.2 million).The film played 75% under-25 years old and 61% female on its opening weekend. Ouija was released in five international markets and earned $1.3 million from 234 screens. T...
Critical response
According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 5% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 3.2/10. The website's critics consensus states: "Slowly, steadily, although no one seems to be moving it in that direction, the Ouija planchette points to NO." Metacritic, another review aggregator which assigns and normalizes scores of critic reviews, gave the film a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on reviews from 22 crit...
The film was novelized by Katharine Turner. The novel was released on September 16, 2014. The plot of the novel differs from the movie in many notable ways, containing an additional flashback sequence at the beginning of the book which occurs two months before Debbie dies, giving a more in-depth backstory to the main characters. Laine's father has ...
Throughout January 2015, reports of a sequel were announced. In February 2015, it was confirmed the film was in development and had no release date. Jason Blum stated "We're a ways away ..." In April 2015, it was announced that the sequel would be released on October 21, 2016. Mike Flanagan would direct and co-write the sequel with his Oculus co-wr...
Ouija at IMDbOuija at AllMovieOuija at Rotten TomatoesOuija at Box Office MojoAfter her divorce, Snowden moved to Los Angeles, California, and worked in modeling and in small parts on television. She got her big break into show business on a Jack Benny Christmas show that was televised from the San Diego Naval Base.
Knowing is Everything... By Amy Renner Nov. 30, 2009. Who's Involved: Liam Hemsworth, Nicolas Cage, Ben Mendelsohn, Chandler Canterbury, Juliet Snowden, Rose Byrne, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Alex Proyas, Steve Tisch… more » Release Date: Friday, March 20, 2009 Nationwide. PG-13 PARENTS STRONGLY CAUTIONED MPA.
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Juliet Snowden is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for writing Knowing and Ouija. She is also known for co-writing screenplays with her husband Stiles White.
