NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Final Destination 3

Final Destination 3 is a 2006 supernatural thriller, and the third film in the Final Destination series. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the film was directed and written by James Wong, who co-wrote the original. It was produced by Craig Perry. The film was originally scheduled for release date on February 24, 2006; however, the date was altered to February 10, two weeks earlier. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kris Lemche (pronounced Lem-Key, born 1978 in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. ... Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian actress and singer/songwriter known for her roles in Final Destination 3 and So Weird, and for playing the lead role of Jude Harrison in the hit teen drama series Instant Star where her performances have twice been nominated for... Amanda Crew (born on June 5, 1986 in Langley, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television actor. ... Texas Battle is an African-American actor. ... Chelan Simmons is a Canadian film actress. ... Crystal Lowe (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress, best known for her lead roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. ... Sam Easton is an actor. ... Maggie Ma (born July 9, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian film actress. ... Shirley Walker (April 10, 1945 - November 30, 2006) is a well-respected and renowned American film composer. ... New Line redirects here. ... is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural thriller, and sequel to the 2000 hit Final Destination. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Supernatural (disambiguation). ... Look up Thriller in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Final Destination series is the series of horror films created by James Wong and Glen Morgan, based on an unused X-Files script and characters created by Jeffrey Reddick and distributed by New Line Cinema. ... New Line redirects here. ... This article is about the writer/producer James Wong. ... is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Plot

The film begins with a group of friends Wendy Christensen, her boyfriend Jason, Wendy's friend Carrie and her boyfriend Kevin at a school carnival. All of them except Wendy go on a ride called High Dive, with Wendy taking pictures. In the picture the V in Dive is not lit up, spelling High Die. Although on the ride, the V is still lit up. The 4 decide to get food before going on the roller-coaster. When they are sitting at a table, Kevin takes a picture under a girl named Stacy's skirt. Wendy snatches the camera off him and flashes the camera right in his face, resulting in a picture that is all out of focus and overexposed. She says she is taking pictures for the yearbook so don't be an idiot. Carrie says she is gonna break up with Kevin after graduation and tells Wendy to says nothing. Kevin spots two of their classmates, a pair of attractive girls named Ashley and Ashlyn and says that a shot of their butts would sell some yearbooks. Ashley wins a carnival game so Wendy takes a picture of them both with Ashley's prize (a big plastic palm tree). Wendy runs into her sister Julie who isn't allowed to be at the carnival and takes a picture of her putting her rude fingers up for proof to show their mum. For other uses, see Roller coaster (disambiguation). ...

A jock named Lewis wins a carnival hammer game and Wendy takes a picture of him. Wendy, Carrie, Kevin and Jason head over to the roller coaster. Wendy is afraid of rollercoasters and Jason says that the fear of these rides comes from the feeling of having no control so she lines up. Wendy takes a picture of Jason in front of the rollercoaster. A guy named Frankie is hitting on Ashley and Ashlyn and videotaping them, while they are waiting in line. They are repulsed by him. Wendy and her friends enter the rollercoaster turnstiles and line up to get in. Jason and Carrie sit in the front but Wendy doesn't want to so she and Kevin sit in the back. She takes a picture but cameras aren't allowed so Kevin puts it away. As Wendy sits in the back row of the roller coaster, she has a gruesome vision that the roller coaster will kill everyone on the ride. In her vision, Frank's camera lands on the track as the roller coaster goes through the loop. At the bottom of the loop, the roller coaster smashes into the camera, causing the hydraulics to rupture. All of the harnesses rise back up as the roller coaster goes through a series of twists.

The front eight cars depart from the tracks, crashing instead into the support posts of the track ahead. Jason Robert Wise, Carrie Dreyer, Ashley Freund, Ashlyn Halperin, and Frank Cheek were all on board the front eight cars. As the remaining four cars continue to screech along the tracks, Lewis Romero is sent spinning from his seat, almost to his death. He catches onto the rim of the back seats, but a chunk of the ninth cart flies back at him, knocking him off the coaster and into one of the structure bars, breaking his body around the bar and killing him. The remaining cars of the coaster approach the loop, but stop halfway through it. Ian McKinley, Erin Ulmer, Julie Christensen, and Perry Malinowski all drop to their deaths as they fall out of their seats, leaving only Wendy Christensen and Kevin Fischer in their seats. The roller coaster slides backwards down the loop, and Kevin is sliced in half by the bent bar Lewis hit. The back wheels hit the broken track and send Wendy plummeting into the ground. Wendy soon realizes that the roller coaster has not yet crashed, and in a fit, she manages to get the back seven rows kicked off the ride. The ride begins again, and the accident plays out again, killing everyone who stayed on the ride, including Jason and Carrie.

Wendy finds out about the events surrounding Flight 180 in the first film in the series, about how a teenage boy claimed that he had a vision about the plane exploding, and he got off with 7 other people and on takeoff, flight 180 blew up. After that, all 7 people who got off the plane started dying in strange freak accidents and realizes that the same thing is happening now. Wendy finds out about Death itself and how it seeks out people who escape their original death. Wendy tries to cheat death and save the people who got off the roller coaster, but is unsuccessful. Pictures that Wendy took on the night of the carnival have clues to how the people will die. The first ones to die are two girls who got off the rollercoaster, Ashley and Ashlyn. The two girls go tanning for their graduation. The owner of the tanning salon, Yuri, gets a phone call from his girlfriend. The girls are sick of waiting for him and since they have tanned there so many times they know how to operate the machine, they let Yuri go outside to fight on the phone.

Ashley decides to take her slurpee in the tanning room, despite Yuri's rules. To keep from being locked out, Yuri uses a bottle of lotion as a doorstopper. Ashlyn writes a "Back in 30!" note and tapes it on the front door because she doesn't want anyone to see them naked. They go to the room and Ashley sets the VAC and tanning time while Ashlyn turns up the room temperature since it's too cold. Ashley puts her slurpee on the counter above the VAC control panel. Ashlyn forgets her iPod so the girls resort to using CD's provided on a nearby shelf. While sorting and choosing a CD, the nails holding the shelf up start to loosen. As they get settled in the tanning beds, Yuri becomes locked out, as his doorstopper gives out. Water condensates on Ashley's slurpee, which eventually pools and drips into the control panel and it malfunctions and slowly raises the VAC way above safety level (250) in the tanning beds. As the temperature in the room rises, an air conditioning vent next to a coat hanger begins to blow air. As the coat hanger wobbles, Wendy calls Ashley's cell phone, which vibrates and the coat hanger finally topples over, hitting a palm tree which falls over and knocks the CD shelf onto Ashley's bed. Ashley opens her bed and the CD shelf slides down into the handles of Ashlyn's bed, and the other side slips into Ashley's. Two large Slurpees in a car cup holder. ... A sunbed, with lights off. ...

They try to get out when they realize something is wrong, but the board holds the two beds closed. They scream loud enough for Yuri to hear them, but he is locked out. The girls try to escape by trying to remove the fan above their heads, but that doesn't work. When the VAC reaches 350, the solarium tubes explode in Ashley's tanning bed. Ashlyn tries to shield her face by waving her arm above her, but the skin on her arm starts to bubble and her tanning goggles melt into her eyes as it gets hotter. Because Ashley keeps banging her legs on the glass she lays on, it eventually gives way and cracks, making her fall in the bulbs below her, and igniting the trails of alcohol used to sterilize the girls' goggles, setting her bed on fire. Then the solarium tubes in Ashlyn's bed finally explode and light her on fire. Flames are seen coming out of the beds while the girls scream and bang on the lids. Ashley reaches her hand out on the edge of the bed and turns sideways. Her face can be seen through the opening of the bed. Then she and Ashlyn are completely engulfed in the flames. At their funeral, Wendy is visiting her boyfriend Jason's grave and tells Kevin that the fear she has is like a living thing always with her.

After the funeral Kevin and Wendy go to a drive-thru in kevin's truck. On the way there they both try to figuire out the death of the next person, Frankie.His picture shows him on a walking rope game. The sign on the window of the restauant starts to flicker and the word "control" disapears. Seeing this Wendy feels like she is losing control of the situation. When they are about to order a truck backs up 3 inches away from wendy's window on the car, so now she cant get out. The radio starts to mutter and then it plays the song "Turn Around". Wendy turns around and sees a runaway truck going down a hill it is coming straight for them. They honk to tell the car in front of them to move up. In the car in front of them is Frankie. He flicks them off. The truck keeps coming down the hill so kevin kicks the windsheild and they jump out right before the truck kills them. It goes through there car and the engine comes out and spins, cutting off the back of Frankie's head and killing him.

The third to die is Lewis. Kevin and Wendy look back at the pictures finding another picture of Frankie were his head is next to a fan, explaning hid death. Then they find a picture of Lewis playing a weight game. He is bending over so it looks like he has no head. The weight looks like it's coming down on his head. They both go to the football weight room at their school to find Lewis. He is there lifting wieghts. They try to expolain to him what's going on but he wont listen telling them that death is afraid of him. He starts working on a lat machine. In the weighht room there is a Bear that has been stuffed. Someone hits the bear making a nail come off and hit a man lifting a barbell. He yells and drops the barbell making the swords on a poster swing down and cut the wires on the machine Lewis is using. Wendy gasps and Lewis looks up seeing that he is not dead, he contuines on the machine exclaiming that death didnt get him but when he lifts on the machine the weights swing down and crush Lewis's head killing him.

Cast

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian actress and singer/songwriter known for her roles in Final Destination 3 and So Weird, and for playing the lead role of Jude Harrison in the hit teen drama series Instant Star where her performances have twice been nominated for... Kris Lemche (pronounced Lem-Key, born 1978 in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. ... Texas Battle is an African-American actor. ... Sam Easton is an actor. ... Crystal Lowe (born January 20, 1981) is a Canadian actress, best known for her lead roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. ... Chelan Simmons is a Canadian film actress. ... Amanda Crew (born on June 5, 1986 in Langley, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television actor. ... Maggie Ma (born July 9, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian film actress. ... Ecstasia Sanders is a film actress. ... Jesse Moss is a Canadian actor from Vancouver. ... Gina Holden Gina Holden is a Canadian actress. ...

Rating

Final Destination 3 was rated R by the MPAA for strong horror violence/gore, language, and some nudity. It received a 15 certificate for the same reasons in the United Kingdom. In Germany, it received an 18 certificate, in contrast to the 16 received by the first two installments, due to the increased relative intensity of violence and gore. The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ... The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is the organisation responsible for film classification (see Motion picture rating systems and History of British Film Certificates) within the United Kingdom. ...

Response

Final Destination 3 was successful both on film and DVD. The film was released in the United States on February 10, 2006, and opened at #2, showing across 2,880 screens with an opening weekend slightly under $20 million U.S. dollars averaging to a little under $6,940 per theater. As of April 16, 2006, FD3 had made $54,098,051 stateside, though the movie continued to screen across the country for another seven weeks after domestic tallies closed. The film grossed even more in foreign markets, raking in over $59 million as of Early August. Worldwide recorded gross has now reached approx. $113,270,000 so far, outperforming both the original and first sequel in the series. As of late October 2006, Japan gross tallies have yet to be calculated. The DVD rentals reached nearly $45 million, making FD3 the longest running video in the top 50 chart of October 29 (www.boxofficemojo.com) and the 4th best grosser of the 50 films on the list. is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ... is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was rated at 46%.^[1] The original two films received equally poor scores. Besides deriding the film for the high level of violence and the reference to the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, a common complaint directed at the film was that it failed to offer anything new. The BBC awarded a rare 1 star out of 5^[2], after awarding the first installment four stars and the second three. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see World Trade Center (disambiguation). ... September 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events September 4 - Google is awarded U.S. Patent 6,285,999, for the PageRank search algorithm used in the Google search engine September 5 - Perus attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto...

DVD Release

The DVD release gave a "Choose your own adventure" style option where the viewer was able to make choices for the main characters to affect the outcome of the plot. Possibilities include whether to call Heads or Tails during a coin flip (which prevents the characters from ever boarding the rollercoaster) and what temperature to turn the thermostat to in the tanning beds.

Ultimately, most of the choices have little to no outcome on the plot of the movie, and only exist as a means to show deleted or alternate scenes. However, one action can save one of Franke, though he does not appear in the rest of the movie. However, it does create a plot hole where at the end of the film Wendy and Kevin discover that if you intervene in one's death, then death skips on to the next person in line; but Wendy and Kevin would have already realised this having saved him from his death, hence death skipping on to Lewis. Furthermore, one option allows the viewer to 'read' a newspaper detailing the deaths of Kimberly and Officer Burke from Final Destination 2. Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural thriller, and sequel to the 2000 hit Final Destination. ...

Final Destination 3-D

References

External links

For the in-memory database management system, see In-memory database. ... The Final Destination series is the series of horror films created by James Wong and Glen Morgan, based on an unused X-Files script and characters created by Jeffrey Reddick and distributed by New Line Cinema. ... Final Destination is a 2000 horror film about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one has a premonition of their deaths, but soon after, they begin dying one by one in mysterious freak accidents. ... Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural thriller, and sequel to the 2000 hit Final Destination. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Following the original 2000 film Final Destination and the resulting trilogy, a large series of books was produced, written by varied authors such as Natasha Rhodes and Andy McDermott. ... Following the original 2000 film Final Destination and the resulting trilogy as well as Black Flames series of books, Zenescope Entertainment began producing a series of Final Destination comic books. ... James Wong may refer to: James Wong Jim - a Hong Kong Cantopop lyricist and writer. ... Glen Morgan is an American television producer, writer and director, best known for his work on The X-Files, Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, Willard (2003 film), and The One (film) He is often credited along with long-time writing partner, James Wong. ... David Richard Ellis (born September 8, 1952) is an American film director and a former stuntman and actor. ... Shirley Walker (April 10, 1945 - November 30, 2006) is a well-respected and renowned American film composer. ... Jeffrey Reddick (born Jackson, Kentucky) is an American screenwriter. ... James Wong may refer to: James Wong Jim - a Hong Kong Cantopop lyricist and writer. ... Glen Morgan is an American television producer, writer and director, best known for his work on The X-Files, Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, Willard (2003 film), and The One (film) He is often credited along with long-time writing partner, James Wong. ... 21 Jump Street (originally titled Jump Street Chapel) was an hour long police drama television series, developed by Fox Television Network. ... Booker was an hour long television drama starring Richard Grieco. ... The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage was a Disney-produced TV show that followed the story of Black Jack Savage (played by Steven Williams), the ghost of a legendary 17th century Caribbean pirate who teams up with Barry Tarberry (played by Daniel Hugh-Kelly), a crooked Wall Street con... The Commish 2nd Season DVD release The Commish was a television series that aired on ABC in the United States from 1991 to 1995. ... This article is about the TV show. ... Space: Above and Beyond was a short-lived 1990s American science fiction television show, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. ... Millennium is an American television series produced by Chris Carter (creator of The X-Files), set during the years leading up to the dawn of the new millennium. ... The Others was an American TV series created by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and produced by Delusional Films, NBC and DreamWorks Television. ... The Boys Next Door is a 1985 relatively unknown independent movie, about two young men Bo played by Charlie Sheen and Roy played by Maxwell Caulfield, on the verge of adult life, whose bleak futures project them on a grim and violent adventure, before the mundane reality of working in... Final Destination is a 2000 horror film about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one has a premonition of their deaths, but soon after, they begin dying one by one in mysterious freak accidents. ... The One is a 2001 Revolution Studios action movie, starring Jet Li and Carla Gugino and written, produced and directed by James Wong and Glen Morgan. ... Willard is a 2003 film loosely based on the novel Ratmans Notebooks by Gilbert Ralston and the 1971 film Willard. ... Black Christmas is a 2006 remake of the 1974 film of the same name. ... Dragonball is a 2009 live action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball franchise. ...

Contents

Plot GA_googleFillSlot("encyclopedia_square");