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Locations and Dates For ‘My Name Is Bruce’ Promo Tour
Starting in October and running through the New Year will be Bruce Campbell’s highly anticipated My Name Is Bruce (trailer) promo-tour! Mr. Campbell updated his official website with a complete list of dates and locations for the tour, so read on to find out if you’re one of the lucky few who get to see the film first! My Name Is Bruce is the tale of a small town set upon by demons after a group of teen-agers unwittingly unleash an ancient curse. Campbell, playing himself, is kidnapped off the set of a B horror movie and, despite his protestations that he’s just an actor, is forced to play the role of his heroic movie character in order to save the town.
Click here for more details on each theater:
10/26 Austin, TX: Alamo Drafthouse
Black Curtain screening/premiere
with Harry Knowles
10/31-11/2 NYC: The Sunshine Theatre
143 E Houston St
New York, NY 10002
11/5 Philadelphia, PA: The Ritz
400 Ranstead Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
11/7 Boston, MA: Kendall Theatre
1 Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
11/9 Hartford, CT: Cinema City
235 Brainard Rd
Hartford, CT 06114
11/12 New Haven, CT: Criterion Cinemas
86 Temple St
New Haven, CT 06510
11/14 Baltimore, MD: Harbor East
645 S. President Street,
Baltimore, MD 21202
11/15 Washington D.C.: E Street Theatre
555 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
11/19 Columbus, OH: Drexel Gateway Theater
1550 N. High St.
Columbus Ohio 43201
11/20 Toledo, OH: TBD 11/21-23 Detroit, MI: Main Art Theatre
118 N Main St,
Royal Oak, MI
11/28-30 Chicago, IL: Century Centre Theatre
2828 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60657
12/1 Decatur, IL: TBD
12/3 Madison, WI: Sundance
430 N Midvale Blvd
Madison, WI 53705
12/5-7 Minneapolis, MN:Uptown Theatre
2906 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55408
-or-
Lagoon Theatre
1320 Lagoon, Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55408
12/12 Seattle, WA: Varsity
4329 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
12/13-14 Portland, OR: Fox Theatre (AKA Fox Tower 10)
846 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
12/15 Medford, OR: TBD
12/17 San Francisco, CA: Embarcadero Center
One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level
San Francisco, CA 94111
-or-
Bridge Theatre
3010 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94118
12/18 Berkeley, CA: California Theatre
2113 Kittredge Street (Between Oxford and Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA 94704
12/19-21 Los Angeles, CA: Nuart Theatre
11272 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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