Wish Upon is an American supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Barbara Marshall, and starring Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park, Elisabeth RÃÆ'Â ¶hm, and Ryan Phillippe. The film follows a teenage girl who finds a magic box that grants desire, but kills someone close to her every time she does it.
The film was theatrically released on July 14, 2017, by Broad Green Pictures and Orion Pictures. It received negative reviews from critics and has grossed $ 23 million worldwide.
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Plot
Clare Shannon, a 17-year-old boy, is haunted by a memory of her mother's suicide. His father, Jonathan, a former compulsive musician and hoarder who dumped trash as a hobby, invented the Chinese music box and gave it as a gift. Clare intercepts one of the many inscriptions in the box as "Seven Wishes," and unknowingly hopes for Darcie, his torturers and school bullies, to "rot," at which point Darcie develops necrotizing fasciitis and put into ICU. On the same day, Clare Max's dog died at his home exploration house after being seen eaten alive by rats. Clare realizes that the box grants desire, but does not understand that her desire comes with consequences.
Clare makes a second hope for a popular boy named Paul to fall in love with him. As a result, his rich uncle died. After hearing the news of his death, Clare then hopes he will be in the will. Relatives leave everything to Clare. As a result, Mrs. Deluca, a friendly neighbor, suffered a fatal accident. Clare enlists the help of her classmate Ryan Hui for breaking the symbols. A relative named Ryan Gina helps find the meaning of the symbols that give the seven desires with consequences. Clare's fourth wish is for her father to stop being a junk diver and she soon has a personality shift. Soon after, Gina sort out the meaning of the phrase that says "When the music ends, the blood price is paid." After he warns Ryan, he dies. Ryan finds Gina's body and confronts Clare about making a wish in the music box, which she denies.
Clare makes a fifth request that she's popular, but Clare soon is unhappy with her attention and that she loses her relationship with her friends. As a consequence of that desire, Meredith was trapped in an elevator and, when the cord was locked, fell to her death.
Ryan revealed that after the seventh request was given, the music box would claim the owner's soul. Attempts to destroy the box did not work. Furthermore, since June had stolen the box, Clare lost her popularity and all the other things she had hoped for. Clare finds the box and her sixth wish is that her mother never committed suicide. Clare's mother knocked on her bedroom door with two sisters. Clare then rummaged through her mother's painting and looked at the picture of the music box. She concludes that her mother was one of the owners of the music box before and that must have led to her original suicide.
When Clare realizes his father is paying the price for the sixth desire, Clare's third desire is to return to her father's day finding the box. Preventing his father from finding the box, and removing everything that had happened, Clare then asked Ryan to bury the box. Clare believes everything is fine but she gets killed when her foster children, Darcie accidentally hit her in her car, to pay the last blood price. The music box can be heard after Clare's death, showing that the seventh desire to reverse time will be offset by his own death.
In the middle credit scene, Ryan prepares to bury the music box but becomes interested in the inscription and starts thinking.
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Cast
- Joey King as Clare Shannon
- Raegan Revord as Young Clare Shannon
- Ki Hong Lee as Ryan Hui
- Josephine Langford as Darcie Chapman
- Sydney Park as Meredith
- Alice Lee as Gina Hsu
- Ryan Phillippe as Jonathan Shannon, Clare's father
- Elisabeth RÃÆ'¶hm as Johanna Shannon, mother of the late Clare
- Victor Sutton as August Shannon, Clare's rich uncle
- Mitchell Slaggert as Paul
- Shannon Purser as June
- Kevin Hanchard as Carl Morris
- Sherilyn Fenn as Mrs. Deluca
- Jerry O'Connell as Alex (uncredited)
Production
The movie's scenario was selected to the 2015 Black List. On July 27, 2016, it was announced that Wish Upon will be directed by John R. Leonetti. The film is produced by Sherryl Clark from its production company, Busted Shark Productions, and written by Barbara Marshall. In August 2016, Joey King was cast in the lead role of the film, and on November 9, 2016, Ki Hong Lee was also announced. The film began production in November 2016 in Toronto.
Release
The teaser footage of the film was released on February 9, 2017. The first footage debuted on March 22, 2017, and the second trailer was released on May 22, 2017. Wish Upon was released in theaters on July 14, 2017 in the US, and July 22, 2017 in the UK
Marketing
Broad Green Pictures delivers seven fan desires submitted through the film's official website.
Reception
box office
On August 11, 2017, Wish Upon has grossed $ 13.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $ 6.4 million in other regions, totaling $ 20.2 million worldwide, against the budget production of $ 12 million.
In North America, Wish Upon was released simultaneously with the opening of War for the Planet of the Apes, as well as the wider extent of The Big Sick, and is projected to be $ 8-10 million from 2,100 theaters in its opening weekend. This earned $ 376,000 from a Thursday night preview of 1,659 theaters and $ 2.3 million on the first day. It went on to debut to $ 5.5 million for its opening weekend, finishing seventh at the box office.
Critical response
In the review of Rotten Tomatoes, the film received approval ratings of 16%, based on 80 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The important consensus of the site reads, "Wish Upon is not scary or original, but his underlying shortcomings as a horror movie might make him see a destination for genre fans after midnight. " At Metacritic, which provides a normalized ranking, the film has a score of 32 out of 100, based on 24 critics, showing "generally unfavorable reviews". Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average value of "C" on a scale of A to F.
References
External links
- Official website
- Wish Upon on IMDb
- Wish Upon at Rotten Tomatoes
- Wish Upon in Box Office Mojo
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