Adam Robitel

'Adam Robitel' (qv) graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.Robitel recently completed principal photography on Escape Room 2 and is now in post production.Robitel's latest film, _Escape Room (2019)_ (qv) which he developed and directed for Original Films and Sony Pictures Studios, opened at number 2 in the domestic box office with a stellar haul of 18 million dollars, twice its production budget. Escape Room has now grossed 156 million dollars world wide.Robitel made headlines after being tapped to direct Blumhouse's creep-fest franchise _Insidious: The Last Key (2018)_ (qv) (2017). The Last Key opened on January 5th, to fantastic domestic box office, grossing 30 million dollars on its opening weekend and more than 167 million dollars worldwide, making it the most lucrative Insidious to date.Robitel made a big splash in the genre world as a horror auteur having co-written, directed and produced _The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)_ (qv) (2014) a found-footage horror thriller. The Taking of Deborah Logan was named a "Netflix Horror Gem" by The Wrap and won an iHorror Award for best direct release of 2014. Paramount Studios then hired Robitel to do some rewrites on _Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)_ (qv) (2015).On the writing side, Robitel's original supernatural thriller idea _Liminal_ (qv) sparked a bidding war and sold to Fox2000 with Nina Jacobson producing. Robitel will serve as executive producer with Chris Landon writing the screenplay and directing. The scribe has also written a gritty reinvention of the slasher genre with _Cropsey_ (qv) based on the infamous maniac who has haunted the imaginations of campers for over a hundred years for 'Peter Facinelli' (qv) A7SLE Seven films.On the television side, he's developing a character driven Private Eye procedural with co-writer Gavin Heffernan, director Jusin Lin and show runner Nick Stoller as well as an original horror series executive produced by Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa and Netflix.On the acting side, his motion picture debut was in Fox's smash success _X-Men (2000)_ (qv) where he was thrown like a rag-doll by an eight-foot mutant. Since then Adam has worked on music videos the likes of 'Britney Spears' (qv) and 'Smashmouth', appeared in "Spin City" and "Angel" and starred in a national commercial for Paul Mitchell. Adam then landed a leading role in Tim Sullivan's _2001 Maniacs (2005)_ (qv), a comedy-horror remake of the 1964 drive-in classic, starring alongside 'Robert Englund' (qv) and 'Lin Shaye' (qv). Robitel would go on to appear in "Field of Screams", "Chillerama", and Paul Ward's Stephen King adaptation of "One For The Road", alongside Reggie Bannister.::Kelly Kapowski