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Written by jmauceri
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00 |
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Robin Hardy's name will be forever be connected to the 1973 film The Wicker Man. It has become such a worldwide recognized classic the Hardy is often asked to preside at major pop festivals dedicated to The Wicker Man in Scotland and the USA.
For many years Robin Hardy work in the theater, TV commercials, films, and a novelist. Among his literary endeavors are the novels The Wicker Man he co-authored with Anthony Shaffer and Cowboys for Christ, which is the basis for his new film The Wicker Tree.
Filmmaker Robin Hardy returns to the themes he first explored in his classic cult thriller The Wicker Man more than thirty-five years ago – telling the eerie tale of a hedonistic Scots community which makes a human sacrifice – The Wicker Tree inhabits the same territory as The Wicker Man. Intertwined themes of power and sex, of Christian and pagan religion, of bawdy comedy and romantic love, build insistently to a climax of unimaginable horror, all originate from the terrifying imagination of Robin Hardy, director of the cult classic The Wicker Man.
Robin Hardy graciously granted us an audience to discuss his The Wicker Tree, as well as the industry and business of filmmaking.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 00:56 |
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Written by David Woodard
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Friday, 10 February 2012 01:00 |
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Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in GHOST RIDER™ SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE. In this gritty new take on MARVEL's dark antihero, Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter – but he may risk everything as he teams up with the leader of a group of rebel monks (Idris Elba) to save a young boy from the devil… and possibly rid himself of his curse forever.
GHOST RIDER™ SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE is directed by the team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor best know for their Crank films, as well as Gamer. The screenplay is by Scott M. Gimple, Seth Hoffman, and David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer. In addition to Cage and Elba (who recently won a Golden Glob for his work as the lead on the BBC series "Luther), GHOST RIDER™ SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE stars Ciarán Hinds, Violante Placido, Johnny Whitworth, and Christopher Lambert.
Director Mark Neveldine was born in Watertown, NY and attended Hobart College where he majored in Drama/Psychology. He began his career in the arts an actor and Off-Broadway director. He moved on to work behind the camera as Director of Photography on documentaries, music videos and a television pilot. His narrative DP work includes “This Beautiful Life,” starring Ned Beatty.
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Last Updated on Friday, 10 February 2012 12:48 |
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Written by jmauceri
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 00:00 |
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A provocative gang of female vampires is living by their own rules and leaving a merciless trail of blood throughout Europe. They return to Berlin where 20-year-old Lena (KAROLINE HERFURTH...) survives as a petty thief. On her nightly run through an underground club, she meets 250-year-old Louise (NINA HOSS), a vampire vixen, who is not only the owner of the club, but also leads this all-female vampire trio - the other two members are the wild Nora (ANNA FISCHER) and elegant Charlotte (JENNIFER ULRICH). Louise falls head over heels in love with the scruffy Lena and bites her during their first night together. Lena quickly discovers the curse and the blessing of her new, eternal life.
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Written by Brad Balfour
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Wednesday, 04 May 2011 00:00 |
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Inspired by in the very chilly Scandinavian country of Norway, the Marvel Comics-based Thor -- with its roots in the legends of the Norse Gods and their fabled home of Asgard -- puts a grand and glorious, verging on the absurd, spin on the pulp-ish superhero.
Okay, putting a Nordic spin on director Kenneth Branagh's Thor, the latest cinematic rendering of a Marvel Comic character, might be pushing it but this flick hits most of the grandiose marks and certainly won't dissuade the interest in anything mythic or even Shakespearean.
As quality genre flicks go, this huge, effects-laden epic looks like it's worth the $150 million dollars that it cost.
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Written by jmauceri
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Monday, 25 April 2011 00:00 |
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 In medieval times, St. Niklas is a bishop fallen out of grace and traveling with his gang of robbers and thieves, raping, plundering and killing through the countryside. While raiding a small town the villagers take the law into their own hands and murder the bloodthirsty bishop and his thugs by setting their ship on fire, Niklas vows revenge and the curse is born. Now every time there is a full moon on December 5th, the anniversary of his death, St. Niklas and his helpers will rise from the dead and take revenge in a horrible way. In present day Amsterdam, the only ones standing in the way of St. Niklas’ murderous evening is detective Goert, who lost his family to Niklas when he was just a boy, and young Frank.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 04:59 |
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Written by jmauceri
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011 00:00 |
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 PER MELITA is one of the producers on the indy horror thriller THE BLEEDING HOUSE, written and directed by Phil Gelatt and making its premier at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, as well as being distribute by Tribeca Films.
Per grew up in Italy and in the Netherlands. He was schooled in the German schooling system and went on to pursue a higher education at Dutch and American universities culminating in an MBA in Finance and Media from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business in New York City.
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