{"id":222185,"date":"2026-01-05T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222185\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:01:08","slug":"when-film-is-coming-to-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222185\/","title":{"rendered":"When Film Is Coming To Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/black-phone-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-phone-2\" data-tag=\"black-phone-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Phone 2<\/a>, Universal\u2019s sequel to its 2022 horror hit The Black Phone from director Scott Derrickson, is set to begin streaming exclusively on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/peacock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peacock\" data-tag=\"peacock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock<\/a> on January\u00a016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis comes following the film\u2019s October theatrical release to over $132M worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten by Derrickson and partner C. Robert Cargill, who also teamed on the first film, Black Phone 2 sees the return of the sadistic serial killer known as The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), watching as he torments Finn (Mason Thames) from beyond the grave by menacing his sister Gwen (Madeline McGraw). Haunted by horrific visions, the teens set out to stop their psychological torture only to uncover a disturbing secret as they confront a killer who has only grown more powerful in death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by Jason Blum, Derrickson, and Cargill, it\u2019s the second of two films based on the short story by Joe Hill, who served as exec producer. Jeremy Davies was part of the returning cast, along with Thames, McGraw and Hawke, with Demi\u00e1n Bichir among the newcomers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet in 1978 Colorado, 2021\u2019s The Black Phone sees the shy 13-year-old Finney abducted by The Grabber and subsequently held captive in a soundproof basement, where he discovers a disconnected black rotary phone. Mysteriously, the phone begins to ring, and Finney hears the voices of The Grabber\u2019s previous victims, who offer him advice and clues to escape. Meanwhile, Finney\u2019s sister Gwen experiences psychic visions that might help locate him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHailing from Universal, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/blumhouse\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blumhouse\" data-tag=\"blumhouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blumhouse<\/a> and Derrickson &amp; Cargill\u2019s Crooked Highway, the widely acclaimed supernatural horror pic grossed over $161M worldwide, emerging as a sleeper hit amid the comeback from Covid. The film also made Deadline\u2019s list of the most profitable movies of its year with an estimated net of $68M. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Phone 2, Universal\u2019s sequel to its 2022 horror hit The Black Phone from director Scott Derrickson, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1939,57632,146,85,46,397,3167,15235],"class_list":{"0":"post-222185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-black-phone-2","9":"tag-blumhouse","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-peacock","15":"tag-universal-pictures"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}