Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters (2014)

Original title

Vampire Academy

Directed by

Mark Waters

Genre

action film, fantasy film, vampire film, teen film, mystery film, melodrama

Country

Romania, United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 1,826 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage dhampir and her vampire best friend return to a boarding school for vampire royalty after a year on the run. The movie follows the two friends as they navigate school life and deal with threats from within the academy.

fast-pacedcampylightheartedsillyteen-focusedaction-orienteddramatic

What happens

Vampire Academy is a 2014 American fantasy comedy film directed by Mark Waters from a screenplay by his brother Daniel Waters, based on the first book of the novel series of the same name by Richelle Mead. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Zoey Deutch as Rose Hathaway, a Dhampir, and Lucy Fry as Lissa Dragomir, her Moroi best friend, and follows their return to the St Vladimir's Academy boarding school, after being on the run for one year. Preger Entertainment announced the film's development in 2010, with Don Murphy as producer. In 2012, the Waters brothers joined the project with Mark serving as director and Daniel as screenwriter. Casting began in February 2013 with Deutch, Fry, and Danila Kozlovsky announced to play their respective roles. Principal photography took place at Pinewood Studios in England between May and July 2013. The Weinstein Company released Vampire Academy theatrically in the United States on February 7, 2014. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $15.4 million worldwide against a $30 million budget, making it a box-office bomb. Due to the film's poor box-office performance, its theatrical release in the United Kingdom was postponed and the film was later released as a direct-to-video on July 14, 2014 by Entertainment One. Following the film's failure, Preger Entertainment launched an Indiegogo campaign to help fund the production for a sequel based on the second novel, Frostbite, with Piers Ashworth hired to write a script. However, the campaign failed to reach its goal. A reboot television series premiered in 2022 on Peacock and ran for one season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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