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‘The Gate’ Remake Gets Financed, Shoots This Summer!
After loads of loads of talk, H20 Motion Pictures has finally received financing for their forthcoming remake of The Gate, which will be shot in 3-D by actor-turned-director Alex Winter (who you might know from the Bill and Ted movies and Lost Boys. You can read the details inside. No word on any casting yet.
Frankfurt’s HessenInvestFilm and Stuttgart-based MFG Baden-Württemberg have allocated $1.9m (e1.35m) to Germany’s first 3D live action film, Alex Winter’s The Gate.
The UK-born actor-director’s remake of the 1987 horror film will begin production at the MMC Studios in Cologne in the late summer. The film has also received $1.2m (e900,000) from Düsseldorf’s Filmstiftung NRW.
The original, which starred Stephen Dorff, followed three young children who accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
It is the second collaboration between the studios’ production arm MMC Independent and Andras Hamori’s H20 Motion Pictures after they co-produced Stephen Frears’ Cheri last year.
Visual effects for The Gate will be handled by the Frankfurt and Stuttgart studios of Pixomondo. Its recent credits include Niki Muellerschoen’s The Red Baron, Roland Emmerich’s 2012 and James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin.
In addition, HessenInvestFilm awarded $384,523 (e250,000) for UK writer-director Mark Cairns’ mystery thriller Cold Storage, which is being planned as a 3D feature by Frankfurt’s MagnaManaProduction.
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‘Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn’ – Alex de la Iglesia Directing Animated H.P. Lovecraft Movie
Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, the upcoming animated movie Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn will be directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, The Last Circus, Witching and Bitching, “30 Coins”).
Variety notes in their report that the film will mark Alex de la Iglesia’s animation debut.
Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn is said to be “the first major adult 3D animation production to fully adapt the complex universe of H.P. Lovecraft for the big screen.”
Variety details, “It weaves what is described as several “tragically intertwined stories” linked by one of Lovecraft’s masterpieces, his imagining of a legendary forbidden book, the “Necronomicon,” whose reading sparks madness or ghastly death.”
“Lovecraft consistently refers to the book in his stories, claimed it contains an account of the Old Ones who ruled before humankind and will rule after it. He hardly reproduces the book’s contents, however, making it all the more sinister,” Variety’s report explains.
In the upcoming animated movie from Alex de la Iglesia, ” the book will travel through time across four historical and geographical settings as distant as they are grim.”
“Feeding on humanity’s thirst for forbidden knowledge, ‘Necronomicon’ unleashes madness and the chilling certainty that we are nothing more than dust of the Ancient Ones.”
“I have always been fascinated by the Lovecraftian universe, and being able to bring that cosmic horror to the screen alongside Álex de la Iglesia is a dream come true,” 3Doubles Producciones CEO Darío Sánchez said. “I am convinced that this is a turning point for our sector: adult animation is booming, and this project will put the Spanish industry on the global map.”
Head over to Variety to learn more about the animated project.
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