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Final Destination

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This article is about the first installment of the series. For the 2009 film, see The Final Destination. For general information, see Final Destination (film series).

Final Destination
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Wong
Produced by	Glen Morgan Warren Zide Craig Perry Associate Producer: Chris Bender Co-Producer: Art Schaeffer Executive Producers: Richard Brener Brian Witten
Written by	Screenplay: Glen Morgan James Wong Jeffrey Reddick Story: Jeffrey Reddick
Starring	Devon Sawa Ali Larter Kerr Smith Amanda Detmer Sean William Scott
Music by	Shirley Walker
Cinematography	Robert McLachlan
Editing by	James Coblentz
Studio	Zide/Perry Productions Hard Eight Pictures
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	March 17, 2000[1]
Running time	98 min.
Country	Canada United States
Language	English French Japanese
Budget	$23 million[1]
Gross revenue	$112,880,294[1]
Followed by	Final Destination 2

Final Destination is a 2000 horror film, about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one of them, Alex, has a premonition of their deaths. Soon after their escape, they begin dying one-by-one in mysterious freak accidents. The script was originally written by Jeffrey Reddick as a spec script for The X-Files. Director James Wong worked as a writer, producer and director on that series. The film is distributed by New Line Cinema. The DVD was released on September 26, 2000.^[2] The film was the first in the Final Destination series, which has since produced three sequels and a series of books.
Final Destination takes place on Long Island.^[3] Locations such as Jones Beach and John F. Kennedy International Airport are shown. Nassau County is mentioned. However, Vancouver International Airport stood in for JFK.