![]() They've certainly come a long way from the days when promotion was all autonomous and achieved by simply uploading files into the cyber abyss. Which is why 20th Century Fox is flying the guys all around the United States to promote the movie. Devil's Due, though, is the biggest project they've ever worked on, a multi-million-dollar production shot in New Orleans and, tomorrow, set to open on a whopping 2,700 theaters across the country. Originally known as Chad, Matt & Rob (back when their friend Rob Polonsky was part of the outfit), Radio Silence-named during a time when they couldn't get any studio heads to pay them any mind, hence the "radio silence" they experienced-started making vibrant, effects-heavy web videos back in 2009, paving the way for their first movie assignment, a segment in the 2012 indie found-footage horror anthology V/H/S. One of us will fall out of a window before the end of the day, I'm sure." ![]() "Maybe we have a rich friend who's pranking us, like this is The Game. "We keep thinking that someone is going to come in and tell us this isn't really happening," says Bettinelli-Olpin. The fact that they've actually directed a feature-length film-about a newly married couple ( Allison Miller and Friday Night Lights alum Zach Gilford) whose unexpected, in utero baby shows all signs of being Satan incarnate-for a major studio is still too surreal to allow the guys to take themselves too seriously yet. That's because the Radio Silence quartet are just a bunch of wide-eyed, can't-believe-they're-here dudes who, three years ago, were making viral videos with titles like "Mountain Devil Prank Fails Horribly" and distributing the clips themselves online. You would never see other directors of upcoming Fox films like Bryan Singer ( X-Men: Days of Future Past) or David Fincher ( Gone Girl) pulling such a harmless but fun-loving stunt like that, especially in front of reporters. ![]() "That would be the perfect double feature," he says as the others laugh behind him. The irony isn't missed by Bettinelli-Olpin and Villella, who move the floor posters around to have Son of God standing next to Devil's Due, ready for Villella's camera-phone snapping. First in line is the one-sheet for Devil's Due, which shows a pregnant woman seated inside a chalk-drawn, clearly occultist symbol on a bedroom floor, with a baby's crib off in the background two posters down from Devil's Due is the one for Son of God, an upcoming film inspired by the recent hit miniseries The Bible, about, yes, Jesus Christ himself. In one of the office's hallways rests a row of stand-up posters for 20 Century's Fox's early 2014 new release slate. Two of the members, Tyler Gillett, 31, and Justin Martinez, 33, are all smiles but also all business once the footage ends, following the studio's reps into a conference room the other two, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, 35, and Chad Villella, 36, have something a bit more mischievous in mind. And preceded by that wonderful New York City promo with the evil baby in the carriage. Even more to their disbelief, they're in town to screen a 15-minute sizzle reel for a major motion picture they've directed, Devil's Due, a found-footage horror pic opening in theaters nationwide tonight at midnight. It's a cold, rainy mid-December afternoon, and the four members of the Los Angeles-based filmmaking team Radio Silence are somewhere they never thought they'd be: inside the 20th Century Fox offices in New York City.
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