Director Parker Finn beat the odds with the first “Smile” film.
Shot for $17 million, the 2022 horror turned into a box office behemoth grossing over $200 million worldwide. So while shooting “Smile 2,” Finn took the same approach, pushing his budget and schedule to the limits in a process he described as fitting “a 10-gallon movie into a five-gallon bucket.”
“We had a few more resources, more toys to play with. But I’m always trying to punch above my budget and above what the schedule affords,” Finn said. “[I tried] to push everything to its absolute extreme. So in a way, it felt the same or almost
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