Final Destination 3
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| Final Destination 3 | |
 Final Destination 3 film poster |
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| Directed by | James Wong |
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| Produced by | Craig Perry Glen Morgan James Wong Warren Zide Associate Producer: Sheila Hanahan Co-Producer: Art Schaeffer Executive Producer: Toby Emmerich Richard Brener Matt Moore |
| Written by | Glen Morgan James Wong Jeffrey Reddick (characters) |
| Starring | Mary Elizabeth Winstead Ryan Merriman Kris Lemche Alexz Johnson Amanda Crew Texas Battle Chelan Simmons Crystal Lowe Sam Easton Maggie Ma Gina Holden Jesse Moss |
| Music by | Shirley Walker |
| Cinematography | Robert McLachlan |
| Editing by | Chris G. Willingham |
| Studio | Zide/Perry Productions Hard Eight Pictures |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) |    February 10,2006 April 27, 2006[1] |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Canada United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | Worldwide: $113,270,608 [1] |
| Preceded by | Final Destination 2 (2003) |
| Followed by | The Final Destination (2009) |
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Final Destination 3 is a 2006 supernatural thriller, and the third film in the Final Destination series and the last film in the series distributed by New Line Cinema, the film was directed and written by James Wong, who co-wrote and directed the original, and was produced by Craig Perry. The film was originally scheduled for release on February 24, 2006. However, the date was moved to two weeks earlier, February 10.
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[edit] Plot
The movie opens with Wendy, a soon-to-be graduate from McKinley High School, visiting a theme park with friends and taking random photos of each of them. The group boards a roller coaster, and Wendy has a premonition that the coaster will crash, killing everyone. She wakes up from this premonition, still in the coaster, and demands to be let off. The attendant frees all the seats in the rear car, and when the coaster leaves the station, it crashes as Wendy predicted, killing her boyfriend and her best friend in it.
Soon, Wendy realizes that the people who survived are now dying in the order in which they would have died if they stayed on the roller coaster, and she tries to prevent further deaths after discovering a link to how the person will die using the photos she took. Her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin Fischer, helps Wendy to try and stop the deaths and cheat Death once more. Wendy and Kevin figure out that there is a link in each of the pictures that correlates to how they will die. Wendy and Kevin attempt to stop Death from killing their friends one by one.
[edit] Characters
- Wendy Christensen: The protagonist, her friends tease her that she is too much of a worrier and a control freak. After having a premonition of the coaster's derailment, she saves several of her classmates, only to have them die one by one in even more gruesome ways. She is portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
- Kevin Fischer: Kevin is the supporting lead character. He was dating Wendy's friend before the crash and bands together with Wendy to help save the rest of the survivors. He is portrayed by Ryan Merriman.
- Ian McKinley: Artsy and moody, Ian is sarcastic, smart and cynical. He is the school's Goth. Erin is his girlfriend, and they sat together on the roller-coaster. He is portrayed by Kris Lemche.
- Erin Ulmer: Erin is also a Goth, equally artsy and cynical. Ian is her boyfriend, and they sat together on the coaster. She is portrayed by Alexz Johnson.
- Julie Christensen: Julie is Wendy's sassy younger sister. She is portrayed by Amanda Crew.
- Lewis Romero: Lewis is tough, enthusiastic and the school's athlete. He was sitting alone on the coaster. He is portrayed by Texas Battle.
- Frankie Cheeks: Frankie is a clown, failure, pervert and is a graduate that still attends high school events to videotape and hit on girls. He gets on the roller-coaster behind Ashley and Ashlyn. He is portrayed by Sam Easton.
- Ashlyn Halperin: Ashlyn is a pretty brunette, popular, and shallow beauty queen. She was sitting next to Ashley on the roller-coaster. She is portrayed by Crystal Lowe.
- Ashley Freund: Ashley, the blonde half of the duo is head cheerleader. She was sitting next to Ashlyn on the roller-coaster. She is portrayed by Chelan Simmons.
- Perry Malinowski: Perry, is Julie's best friend. She is portrayed by Maggie Ma.
[edit] Rating
Final Destination 3 was rated R by the MPAA for strong horror violence/gore, language, and some nudity. It received a 15 certificate for the same reasons in the United Kingdom. In Germany, it received an 18 certificate, in contrast to the 16 received by the first two installments, due to the increased relative intensity of violence and gore.
[edit] Response
Final Destination 3 was successful both on film and DVD. The film was released in the United States on February 10, 2006, and opened at #2, showing across 2,880 screens. In its opening weekend it took $19 million dollars, averaging to a little under $6,940 per theater. As of April 16, 2006, FD3 had made $54,098,051 stateside, though the movie continued to screen across the country for another seven weeks after domestic tallies closed. The film grossed even more in foreign markets, raking in over $59 million. Worldwide recorded gross has now reached approximately $113,270,000 so far, out performing both the original and first sequel in the series. The DVD rentals reached nearly $45 million, making FD3 the longest running video in the top 50 chart of October 29[2], and the 4th best grossing film of the 50 films on the list.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was rated at 46%.[3] The original two films received equally poor scores. Besides deriding the film for the high level of violence and the reference to the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, a common complaint directed at the film was that it failed to offer anything new. The BBC awarded a rare 1 star out of 5[4], after awarding the first installment four stars and the second three.
[edit] DVD release
The DVD has a unique feature called "Choose Their Fate". As the movie plays, menus pop up from time to time asking the viewer to make choices for the characters which affect the outcome of the plot. Possibilities include whether to call heads or tails during a coin flip (which prevents the characters from ever boarding the rollercoaster) and what temperature to turn the thermostat to in the tanning beds (which changes the cause of one of the deaths). One option allows the viewer to 'read' a newspaper detailing the deaths of Kimberly and Officer Thomas Burke from Final Destination 2.
[edit] Final Destination 3-D
Originally, Final Destination 3 was to be in 3-D because it would be the third in the franchise.[citation needed] When the movie was being filmed, it was deemed too complicated and expensive, so the movie was shot normally. Although this idea was dropped for this film, the fourth installment, The Final Destination, will be in 3-D.
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