{"id":654618,"date":"2026-03-14T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/654618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:06:15","slug":"here-i-come-leaves-sxsw-screaming-at-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/654618\/","title":{"rendered":"Here I Come’ Leaves SXSW Screaming At World Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cLet\u2019s go!\u201d yelled Ready or Not 2: Here I Come<\/a> star Kathryn Newton before the lights went down at tonight\u2019s world SXSW<\/a> premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, I\u2019m loud,\u201d she exclaimed to the filled Paramount Theatre audience, who of course, were full of plenty of noise on night two of the Lone Star State capital\u2019s film and TV fiesta. In what was a completely appropriate booking for Friday the 13th at the Austin-based film festival, a horror film was the main 5PM attraction. And Newton kept the crowd going with screams and laughs through tonight\u2019s screening, sitting right behind her co-star Shawn Hatosy.<\/p>\n

\n\tFranchise star Samara Weaving<\/a> was a no-show as she\u2019s expecting her first baby back in LA, however, sequel\u2019s additional star, Sarah Michelle Gellar represented her with a handheld face mask cutout (check out our junket interview above where we spoke with Weaving who told us \u201cI couldn\u2019t prep for any stunts because my back was out\u201d). Weaving, clad in a magenta pink gown, recorded a video message to fans, which ran at the start of the film. Also, she posed for a photo with Newton in front of the Sunset Blvd billboard on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tSarah Michelle Gellar at \u201cReady or Not 2: Here I Come\u201d Premiere during the SXSW Conference & Festivals held at Paramount Theatre on March 13, 2026 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Travis P. Ball\/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tcourtesy of Searchlight<\/p>\n

\n\tThe key to survival during a Ready or Not production is to stay fit the entire time as an Olympics of blood-filled chase and fight scenes unfold.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Samara Weaving On Her Gory SXSW \u201926 Double-Feature, Unexpected \u2018Scream Queen\u2019 Status & \u201cQuiet Dreams\u201d Of Doing Improv: \u201cI Was A Scaredy-Cat Growing Up\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to the crowd at the end of the film, Radio filmmakers Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin said that a sequel was never planned. Weaving, for one, was told that her backstory was that of a lone wolf who grew up in foster care. It wasn\u2019t until she got the second script from the horror series scribes Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murray that she learned she had an estranged sister in Newton\u2019s character, Faith. In fact, Murray and Busick wrote a post-credits scene, which the filmmakers were unable to shoot due to budget restrictions. The tag tipped off to a sequel in which the greater 1% are in on the rich person\u2019s blood hunt sport.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat makes a Ready or Not 2 movie special? \u201cPractical effects\u201d said Gillett on stage tonight. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEveryone gathers around the monitor when Sam and Kathryn are about to get shot with a blood cannon,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more clever than the truth, and we\u2019re getting splattered with goo, no matter what. Those reactions were real and honest, it\u2019s just better. You can feel it. You guys felt it. I could hear you,\u201d exclaimed Newton.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t get blood-splattered,\u201d responded Elijah Wood. \u201cI didn\u2019t either,\u201d said Michelle Gellar.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was one moment during the movie when Newton was splattered with blood in a pattern that yielded such a great take, Radio Silence had to recreate it on her face the next production day for consistency.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come\u2019 Review: Samara Weaving Provides Bloody Good Time In Radio Silence\u2019s Sequel \u2014 SXSW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tDuring our interview with Weaving and Newton back in LA, we asked about their thoughts for a threequel. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought it would be funny if we do a completely different genre like a rom-com and it\u2019s about two sisters who meet two brothers \u2014 miscommunication drama and there\u2019s no blood at all, and we piss off everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMic-dropped Newton, \u201cNo suspense \u2014 just kissing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tReady or Not 2: Here I Come from Searchlight Pictures comes out next Friday, March 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLet\u2019s go!\u201d yelled Ready or Not 2: Here I Come star Kathryn Newton before the lights went down…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":654619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,240064,95660,94376,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-654618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ready-or-not-2-here-i-come","tag-samara-weaving","tag-sxsw","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116226503532837297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}