In the wake of Columbia Pictures amassing close to $119 million at the worldwide box office off the $9M horror feature Escape Room, the studio is moving forward on the development of a sequel, Deadline has learned.

Adam Robitel will return to direct Escape Room 2 along with returning writer Bragi F. Schut and producer Neal H. Moritz.

Escape Room follows six strangers who find themselves in a maze of deadly rooms, and must use their wits to find the clues or die. Plot details for Escape Room 2 are being kept under wraps. 

The first film, which stars Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis and Tyler Labine, opened at No. 2 at the January 4-6 weekend box office amidst heavy post-holiday competition with $18.2M, beating its $10M-$14M tracking estimates. Escape Room currently counts $56.1M at the domestic B.O. and $62.5M abroad, with several territories left to open.

The film opened in China on January 18 to $8.5M and went on to take in $34.2M in the territory.

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