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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #85 The Box

Published on January 28, 2008

#85.The Box

Director/Writer: Richard Kelly
Producers: Kelly, Kelly and Sean McKittrick
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Gist: This is based on Richard Matheson short story “Button, Button”. Norma and arthur Lewis are faced with a terrible dilemma when a mysterious glass box turns up at their door. If they press the button inside the box, they’ll get enough money to save their ailing son, but in exchange, someone, somewhere in the world will die.

Fact: The short story was the basis of a well-remembered Twilight Zone episode from the 1980s.

See It: We’ve forgiven him for being ambitious and seeing his Southland Tales until the end. Time to turn the page because we “heart” Donnie Darko and the premise for this film.

Release Date/Status?: Warner Bros. Pictures will release the picture this year. Unclear whether this will be an autumn or holiday film release?

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).