Saw Returns to Theaters for 10th Anniversary

<p>As one of the first long-running horror franchises of the 21st century&comma; <em><strong>Saw<&sol;strong><&sol;em> has certainly bore its way into pop culture&period; How many times have you seen a creepy doll and the first words that pop into your head are &&num;8220&semi;I want to play a game&&num;8221&semi;&quest; After seven financially successful films over 10 years&comma; Lionsgate has certainly got to be proud of their little film about two men stuck in a bathroom the blew up into a horror movie series&period; To celebrate the success and keep the tradition&comma; Lionsgate will be re-releasing the first <em><strong>Saw<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>film that started it all back into theaters on <strong>October 31&comma; 2014<&sol;strong> with some early screenings on October 30&comma; 2014&period; The original directed James Wan originally hit theaters on October 29&comma; 2004&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So if you have nothing to do on Halloween night and just want to go to the theater for a good scare &lpar;or gross-out gore&rpar;&comma; Lionsgate has you covered&period; Read the press release below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>SAW CUTS ITS WAY BACK INTO THEATERS THIS HALLOWEEN TO CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Horror Film Which Ignited Blockbuster Franchise Will Be Available in Theaters for One Week Only Starting October 31&comma; 2014<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>SANTA MONICA&comma; CA August 27&comma; 2014 – This Halloween&comma; Lionsgate &lpar;NYSE&colon; LGF&rpar; will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the theatrical release of SAW&comma; the film that kicked off the most successful horror franchise in history&comma; by bringing it back to theaters nationwide for one week only&period; The film will open on Friday&comma; October 31st&comma; with select screenings beginning Thursday night&comma; October 30th&period; The seven SAW films grossed &dollar;874 million at the box office worldwide and were hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Most Successful Horror Franchise” of all time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>SAW was the first collaboration for co-creators James Wan&comma; who directed the film&comma; and Leigh Whannell&comma; who wrote the screenplay&period; Together&comma; they also created the successful INSIDIOUS franchise&comma; and Wan has gone on to direct such high-profile films as THE CONJURING and the upcoming FAST &amp&semi; FURIOUS 7&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Directed by Wan from a script penned by Whannell&comma; SAW is a psychological thriller focusing on two men who wake up in a secure lair of a serial killer&comma; with a dead body lying between them&period; The killer&comma; nicknamed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jigsaw&comma;” leaves them tape recorded messages with details of how to make it out alive&period; The only way for one man to make it out alive is to do the unthinkable&period; The two men desperately try to find a way out&comma; while also trying to figure out who’s behind their kidnapping&period; The film&comma; which was released over Halloween weekend on October 29&comma; 2004&comma; was produced by Gregg Hoffman&comma; Oren Koules&comma; and Mark Burg&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;