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Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David R. Ellis
Produced by	Craig Perry Warren Zide
Written by	Screenplay: Eric Bress Characters: Jeffrey Reddick
Starring	Bobby Campo Shantel VanSanten Haley Webb Mykelti Williamson Nick Zano Krista Allen
Music by	Brian Tyler Theme: Shirley Walker
Cinematography	Glen MacPherson
Editing by	Mark Stevens
Studio	Zide/Perry Productions LivePlanet
Distributed by	New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
Release date(s)	August 28, 2009
Running time	81 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Gross revenue	$178.99 (worldwide)[1]
Preceded by	Final Destination 3

The Final Destination (also known as Final Destination 4) is a 2009 3-D supernatural horror thriller written by Eric Bress and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Final Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth installment to the Final Destination film series, and the first of which to be shot in HD 3-D.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Development 3.2 Filming 3.3 Promotion 4 Release 4.1 Box office 4.2 Critical reception 5 Soundtrack 5.1 Track listing 5.2 Crews 5.3 Reception 6 Home media 7 Future of franchise 8 References 9 External links

Plot

The film is set 10 years after the explosion of Flight 180, 9 years after the highway pile-up in Route 23, and 4 years after the roller coaster derailment in McKinley, Pennsylvania. While watching a race at McKinley Speedway for a break from studying, college student Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a car crash which sends debris into the audience, crushing some spectators and resulting in the stadium collapsing, which would have killed everyone present in the 180 section. In a panic Nick manages to convince his girlfriend Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten), and friends Hunt Wynorski (Nick Zano) and Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb) to leave. The quartet is followed out by a security guard named George Lanter (Mykelti Williamson), spectator Andy Kewzer (Andrew Fiscella), his girlfriend Nadia Monroy (Stephanie Honore), and racist Carter Daniels (Justin Welborn), who have become angry with Nick (except for Janet, who was scared to leave the race track in the first place, and George) after he pushes past them to escape. Cynthia Daniels (Lara Grice), wants to follow her husband, but was ordered by Carter not to. Also, mother Samantha Lane (Krista Allen) follows her family outside. George intervenes when everyone begins to argue outside, just as the catastrophe Nick had foreseen occurs. A tire flies over the arena and splatters Nadia (shortly after Nadia dies, Cynthia probably was sliced in half like in the premonition). After a memorial service at McKinley Speedway, Carter and Samantha died violently in freak accidents: Carter is blown up with his tow truck after trying to burn a cross on George’s lawn as revenge for “killing his wife” and Samantha is killed by a flying rock propelled by a lawnmower – the rock being thrown on the lawn by her obnoxious kids, which goes right through her eye. Right before their deaths, Nick had seen omens of how they would die.

After hearing about Carter and Samantha’s deaths on the news, Nick and Lori begin doing research, and learn about the disasters that occurred in the previous three films (Flight 180 in Final Destination, Route 23 in Final Destination 2, and roller coaster Devil’s Flight in Final Destination 3) and discover that the survivors (who were saved by premonitions) began dying in a series of improbable accidents shortly afterwards. While Hunt and Janet refuse to believe them, Nick and Lori manage to convince George that Death is after them. The trio begins trying to warn Andy, only to see him killed when a CO² canister flings him backwards to a chain-link fence which dices his torso. As they learn Hunt and Janet are next, they split up to save both of them in time. Lori and George go to save Janet, which is successful, as they find Janet in a carwash, having her head stuck through her sunroof after escaping being drowned from the amount of water pouring into her car. They save her right before her head gets crushed by a huge pipe in the carwash. Meanwhile, Nick goes to a pool to look for Hunt, who dies after he unintentionally switches the lever for draining the pool into ON and after he dives to look for his lucky coin his intestines are sucked down the pool drain violently.

Later on, Nick, Lori & George celebrate as they think it’s all over, since George was trying to kill himself all day and didn’t succeed – he threw up the sleeping pills, then he tried to gas himself in his garage, but his car stalled and finally he tried to hang himself, but the rope couldn’t support his weight. As Lori and Janet are going to the movies, Nick realizes George wasn’t meant to die then, it wasn’t his turn, for there was another survivor confined to a hospital named Jonathan Grove (Jackson Walker). As he and George arrive at Jonathan’s room, Jonathan is crushed by a bathtub overflowed with water from the room above him. As the two go outside the hospital, George is abruptly killed by a speeding ambulance, just before Nick has a second premonition showing him that Lori and Janet will die while in the movie theater when an explosion occurs in a room under construction behind the screen. Nick rushes to reach them, while Lori begins spotting omens warning her that the danger is not over. Once Nick arrives, he and Lori attempt to convince Janet to leave, but are unsuccessful in their efforts. Janet is killed in the theater when the screen explodes (though the explosion had released a lots of piece of metal and gone through everyone, and for Janet, the piece of metal gone through her face and a big shard had impaled her stomach) though the viewers can see that Janet coughing up blood when Lori and Nick return to the theater. Lori is also killed while escaping by being crushed by the escalator conveyor belt. Nick then realizes that the event hasn’t happened yet, and is able to save his friends by extinguishing the fire that would have caused the initial explosion.

Two weeks later, Janet, Lori and Nick, thinking they have conquered Death’s plan, celebrate surviving in a cafe. Nick notices a loose leg on a scaffold outside the cafe, and he tells a construction worker to fix it. Once inside he drifts off into thought after seeing omens around him, and realizes that his premonitions and signs, along with all the disasters and deaths that had occurred since the speedway incident, are red herrings from Death used to manipulate them into where and when it would really come for them. While Nick realizes this, the scaffold falls, and in order to avoid it, a truck swerves, crashes through the cafe window, and kills the group (It is shown as if they were skeletons: Janet is crushed by the truck’s tires, Lori is forced against the wall where her neck breaks, and Nick is smashed to the café wall where his jaw shatters), thus leaving all connected to the McKinley Speedway disaster dead. The end credits show previous deaths from the last three films.

Cast

• Bobby Campo as Nick O’Bannon
• Shantel VanSanten as Lori Milligan
• Haley Webb as Janet Cunnigham
• Mykelti Williamson as George Lanter
• Nick Zano as Hunt Wynorski
• Andrew Fiscella as Andy Kewzer
• Krista Allen as Samantha Lane
• Jackson Walker as Jonathan Grove
• Justin Welborn as Carter Daniels
• Stephanie Honore as Nadia Monroy
• Lara Grice as Cynthia Daniels
• Phil Austin as Edward Lane
• William Aguillard as Daniel Lane
• Brendan Aguillard as Ryan Lane

Production

Development

After the success of Final Destination 3, which was initially planned to be in 3-D,^[2] Eric Bress wrote a script, which impressed producer Craig Perry and New Line Cinema enough to green-light a fourth installment. James Wong was on board to direct, but because of scheduling conflicts, he decided to drop out. Consequently, the studio executives opted for David R. Ellis to return because of his work on Final Destination 2, who personally accepted because of the 3-D.^[3] For the 3-D, Perry said that he wanted it to add depth to the film instead of just “something pop[ping] out at the audience every four minutes.”^[4]

Filming

Although shooting was to be done in Vancouver, which was where the previous three films were shot, David R. Ellis convinced the producers to shoot in New Orleans instead to bring business in the city, and because the budget was already big.^[5] The opening crash sequence at “McKinley Speedway” was filmed at Mobile International Speedway in Irvington, Alabama. Filming began in March 2008 and ended late May in the same year.^[4] Reshoots were done in April 2009 at Universal Studios Florida.^[6]

Promotion

Producer Craig Perry presented clips of the film at San Diego Comic Con. Additionally, a number of video games feature The Final Destination posters: Saints Row 2 has posters around the city taped to walls and poles, Skate 2 features billboards with posters on them, and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames added billboards with the movie’s logo in a content update. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 also features the promotional posters hidden around certain maps with the main goal to find all of the posters for a chance to win $1,300.^[7]

Release

The film was released in 3-D as well as in conventional theaters on August 28, 2009. It was initially planned for an August 14 release.^[8] It is also the first 3-D film to feature D-BOX motion feedback technology in select theaters.^[9]

Box office

According to USA Today and Newsday, The Final Destination debuted as the top of the North American box office, beating Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, by earning $28.3 million during its first weekend.^[10][11] It is also topped the box office in the UK.^[12] The film remained #1 at the box office in North America for two weeks; on September 11, 2009, it gained a little more than a million dollars and dropped to #7.^[13] As of November 8, 2009, the film has grossed $66.4 million domestically, $116.8 million in foreign sales, and $183.2 million worldwide.^[14]

Critical reception

The film received mostly negative reviews by critics, with a 29% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the general consensus is that “The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare”.^[15] Likewise, based on the 14 reviews collected, Metacritic awards the film an average score of 30/100, which denotes “generally unfavorable reviews”.^[16]

Many critics opined that “the series has clearly run out of ideas”.^[17] “The biggest sin of The Final Destination is its general lack of imagination,” said one.^[18] “It’s death porn, pure and simple,” said another.^[19] “Whatever hints of originality lay in the series’ previous editions have been all but sucked out of this one,” spoke Jordan Mintzer of Variety.^[20]

Some positive reviews referenced its “OK sense of humor”,”swift [progression]” and “effective opening sequence of racetrack destruction that puts its Fusion 3-D technology to good use”.^[21] “The Final Destination has some surprising sparks of life to it yet,” said Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.^[22]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album was released on the 25th of August in 2009, three days before the film’s theatrical release, under independent label Varése Sarabande. The album consists of 23 scores composed and mixed by Brian Tyler, composer of the Eagle Eye, Fast and Furious and Constantine soundtracks. He took over scoring the series after the untimely death of the composer for the first three films, Shirley Walker.

[edit] Track listing

The CD only features composed score by Brian Tyler. However in the film, commercially released songs were also featured. The soundtrack includes 23 scores from Tyler.

U.S. edition^[23]

The Final Destination (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by Brian Tyler
Released	8/25/09
Label	Varése Sarabande

1. “The Final Destination” – 2:56
2. “The Raceway” – 3:07
3. “Memorial” – 2:46
4. “Nailed” – 3:22
5. “Nick’s Google Theory” – 1:30
6. “Revelations” – 2:28
7. “Raceway Trespass” – 1:39
8. “Stay Away from Water” – 2:38
9. “Flame On” – 1:43
10. “Moment of Joy” – 1:17
11. “Signs and Signals” – 2:51
12. “George Is Next” – 1:12
13. “Car Washicide” – 3:05
14. “Newspaper Clues” – 1:57
15. “Premonition” – 1:50
16. “The Salon” – 3:53
17. “Questioning” – 1:04
18. “Death of a Cowboy” – 2:08
19. “Gearhead” – 1:56
20. “Sushi for Everyone” – 2:53
21. “The Movie Theater” – 3:03
22. “You Can’t Dodge Fate” – 1:28
23. “The Final Destination Suite” – 13:29

Commercial songs from film, but not on soundtrack ^[24]

• “Devour” – by Shinedown
• “How the Day Sounds” – by Greg Laswell
• “Burning Bridges” – by Anvil
• “Why Can’t We Be Friends” – by War
• “Don’t You Know” – by Ali Dee and the Dekompressors
• “Faraway” – by Dana Schindler
• “Dream of Me” – by Perfect
• “The Stoop” – by Little Jackie
• “Sweet Music” – by Garrison Hawk
• “Corona and Lime” – by Shwayze
• “Make You Crazy” – by Brett Dennen

Crews

• Produced by Brian Tyler
• Executive producer: Robert Townson
• Executive in charge of music for New Line Cinema: Erin Scully
• Music supervisor: Dana Sano
• Performed by The Czech Philharmonic
• Orchestrated by Brian Tyler, Dana Niu, Robert Elhai, Brad Warnaar, Andrew Kinney, and Pakk Hui
• Additional arrangement and programming by Keith Power, Tony Morales, Stuart Thomas, and Pakk Hui
• Original Final Destination Theme composed by Shirley Walker
• Score mixed by Brian Tyler
• Music editing by Gary L. Krause
• Music preparation by Eric Stonerook
• Mastered by Patrica Sullivan Fourstar

Reception

The soundtrack attracted generally favorable reviews. Based on 11 editorial reviews, FilmTracks awards the film with an average score of 3.3 / 5. Composer Tyler was called “capable to further explore new stylistic territory while making substantial use of the structures and tone of [predecessor composer, Shirley Walker's] music.” His approach to the scores were called “intelligent”, and provides “adequate if not strikingly overachieving recordings is testimony to his immense talents.”

The reviewers were also impressed with the extension of the sound used by Walker in Final Destination 3. “It relates to an affection for Walker’s contribution to the industry,” says an unnamed critic. ^[25]

A SoundNotes reviewer grades the film with an impressive score of 7.5 / 10, remarking “Brian Tyler slugs his way through the inadequacies of The Final Destination and produces a score with reasonable entertainment value and enough of an appeal to make it function well apart from the woeful film.” ^[26]

Public reception on the soundtrack was mediocre-to-positive. 143 readers of FilmTracks agreed on a 2.87 / 5 score. 2 Amazon visitors rate the film 3.5 / 5. “Dull and repetitive,” commented reader J. Hart: “The action cues are lifeless (no pun intended) and don’t match the surprising complexity of Walker’s.”

Home media

The Final Destination was initially scheduled for a DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on December 21, 2009, along with a boxset containing all four films. The film and the boxset have now been pushed back slightly to new release dates, January 5, 2010 in the US and January 2010 in the UK. It has been rumored that since the film has a short running time, it will include an extended cut and eventually a “Choose Their Fate” as it did in Final Destination 3. To date, all Final Destination films have passed uncut as 15 certificate ratings in the UK; the release of The Final Destination is expected to follow the same trend. Both the DVD and Blu-ray will include two pairs of 3D glasses in each cover and will also have a 2D version on the menu. It will also include alternate endings and deleted scenes.^[27]

Future of franchise

Producer Craig Perry confirmed that there are no plans to go ahead with a new Final Destination film, likely making The Final Destination the last installment in the series.^[28] He said that combined with a now 3D installment, the film series started to look “cheesy in name alone” and like “another one of those” films a part of a dying or discontinued franchise, such as Leprechaun 4.^[28] He added that the word “The” in the title was to signify this as the last film in the series and that it is difficult to come up with “a fresh spin” for these types of franchises:

These things are hard to figure out, they’re getting more and more expensive to do. This is kind of the intersection that makes everything come to bear. It has a healthy budget, the special FX is great, a great marketing department and it has a really nice franchise loyalty to build from and to deliver to, why push it any further than this?^[28]

Despite Perry feeling that the Final Destination franchise may be better left at The Final Destination, he said that he does have an idea for a sequel. “Of course, Freddy had a Final Nightmare too, and that didn’t last very long,” he stated. “I do have an idea which would make it less expensive, but make it more interesting, [assuming] we’re fortunate enough to even have the conversation about what a fifth one would even be. I think that the fans in particular will appreciate the spin it puts on the notions.”^[28]

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