You know how the industry tends to works, right? If your first feature is a hit, you better be prepared and hold on tight because everything could change in flash, and that’s exactly what happened for Searching director Aneesh Chaganty. That movie utilizes the “screenlife” technique extremely effectively, won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance 2018, become a critical hit and, to top it all off, scored over $70 million at the worldwide box office on a reported $880,000 production budget. It’s a certified hit so it came as no surprise when news broke …
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Run, the horror/thriller from Searching filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty. The film stars Sarah Paulson as a high-key insane mother who dominates every aspect of her daughter's (Kiera Allen) life. Chaganty made one heck of a debut with Searching, the 2018 computer-screen mystery-thriller starring John Cho, so it'll be interesting to see him keep that momentum going. This looks twisty as hell, and of course, the main draw is seeing Paulson, one of the most talented performers working today, channeling her best Mommie Dearest. Last year, Collider's Perri …
If you caught Aneesh Chaganty's feature directorial debut, Searching, hopes are likely high for his follow-up film, Run. Last fall I was lucky enough to visit the set of the film where Run was described as an elevated thriller about Kiera Allen's character, Daughter, a teenager who uses a wheelchair and has been raised in complete isolation by Mother played by Sarah Paulson. While there, major plot points were kept top secret but now it looks as though the countdown to learning more can begin because Run scored a January 24, 2020 release date. Once thought to …