Updated June 07, 2006
Whether the movie was made just because 6/6/06 was too good of a marketing tool to pass up or The Omen remake was greenlit because 20th Century Fox thought 2006 would be a great time to reintroduce audiences to the spawn of the Satan doesn't really matter. Audiences eagerly snatched up tickets to the horror flick on its first day in theaters, setting a new record for a Tuesday in the process.According to Fox, The Omen brought in $12,633,666 (nice touch, Fox) in ticket sales making it the largest Tuesday opening on record.
The remake of The Omen follows the same storyline as the classic 1976 film. When a politically upwardly mobile couple's baby dies before he can take his first breath, priests suggest the father switch his dead son for a newborn whose mother died in childbirth. What the new parents don't know is that their 'son' is really destined to become the Anti-Christ.
The Omen was directed by John Moore and stars Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick.
Source: 20th Century Fox
