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SXSW ’11: Mondo ‘Hobo With a Shotgun’ Poster Will Blow Your Face Off!
We just scored ourselves a bloody good exclusive that features the wrath of the Hobo With a Shotgun. You don’t want to cross him…
Jeff Proctor’s 24×36 poster for Hobo With a Shotgun was created as part of Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo’s SXSW poster collection. The Jason Eisener-directed Hobo With a Shotgun is part of the SXSW Midnighters series at the festival and follows a Hobo (played by the awesome Rutger Hauer) who finds himself in an urban hell. When he witnesses a brutal robbery, he realizes the only way to deliver justice is with a shotgun.
If you want to be one of the first people on the planet to see the film, click here for screening times and tix.
Additional posters that have been released in the SXSW poster colleciton include a “Director’s Series” for Duncan Jones with Source Code and Moon, by artist Olly Moss, and a poster for Paul, by artist Tom Whalen (see ’em here). Keep your eye out for more SXSW posters from Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo.
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.