Trivia: Several weeks after this movie came out, in a case of life imitating art, a man in Westbury, New York was killed when a chain he was wearing caused him to get pulled into an MRI machine.
Trivia: When Director Briggs first sends Will a message, Will gets an alert for a new YouTube upload from Disruptor. If you put the YouTube link shown on screen into your browser, it leads to an unlisted video that is nothing but a black screen for a minute and five seconds.(00:03:25)
Trivia: Some theatres held early screenings of this film at 2:17 PM as a nod to the time in the film (though it is 2:17 AM) that the 17 children go missing.