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James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe. The lattermost is the highest-grossing horror franchise at over $2 billion. Wan is also the founder of the film and television production company Atomic Monster. Beginning his career with the Saw franchise, Wan made his feature directorial debut with his first film in 2004. The franchise became commercially successful and grossed more than $1 billion globally. Following a period of setbacks, Wan found new success with the Insidious series, in which he directed the first film in 2010 and its 2013 sequel. The same year as the second Insidious, Wan directed the first Conjuring film to critical and commercial success. He served as the director of the second installment in 2016 and produced subsequent films in the franchise. Outside of horror, Wan directed Furious 7 (2015), the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, and the DC Extended Universe superhero films Aquaman (2018) and its sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). Both Furious 7 and Aquaman grossed over $1 billion, making Wan the eighth director with two films to reach the milestone. He is the 16th highest-grossing director of all time as of 2021, with his films having grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Wan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Doors is a 2024 American gothic supernatural horror film written, co-produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Anne Hathaway, Alex Vincent, Bill Moseley, Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, and Jamie Lee Curtis. It follows four individuals who are terrorized by an unknown presence in a hotel they are staying in, and they realize they must escape to survive. One of them is Vivian Kyle (Hathaway), who seeks the help of her mother Willow (Curtis) as she is an exorcist for spirits. Doors was released to theaters on May 30th, 2024, to critical and universal acclaim, earning praise for its atmosphere, Shyamalan's direction, visuals, James Newton Howard's musical score, cinematography, emotional depth, Hathaway's performance, and surprise plot twist. It was also a box-office success, grossing $745 million worldwide against a budget of $189 million and a break-even point of $200 million. Many have considered it to be Shyamalan's best horror film of all time, as it is the highest-rated horror film in his career based on rotten tomatoes, behind his best-reviewed film, Gods.
