[Kino] Midnight Meat Train (Ryuhei Kitamura)

[SFI]

A New York photographer hunts down a serial killer. Based on Clive Barker's short story "Midnight Meat Train"

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones
US Start: 01.08.2008
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[StS]

Läuft auch auf´m FFF!

[Vince]

Läuft auch auf´m FFF!

Den wirst du ja wohl sowas von rezensieren! Sonst mach ich dich nen Kopf kürzer. ;)

Glaub aber irgendwie, das wird ein Film, von dem man nur enttäuscht werden kann, wenn man die Vorlage kennt... wie bei fast allen Episoden aus den Büchern des Blutes.

[daemonicus]

Ach was. Ich schau den auch und bin sicher, der wird was.

[StS]

Läuft auch auf´m FFF!

Den wirst du ja wohl sowas von rezensieren! Sonst mach ich dich nen Kopf kürzer. ;)

Gern - wenn er denn am WoE laufen sollte. Ansonsten versuch ich es im Urlaub im September... ;)

[McClane]

Glaub aber irgendwie, das wird ein Film, von dem man nur enttäuscht werden kann, wenn man die Vorlage kennt... wie bei fast allen Episoden aus den Büchern des Blutes.

Och, "Candyman" ist z.B. eine sehr gelungene Umsetzung und da war Barker ja auch mit an Bord. Sie haben der Kurzgeschichte jedenfalls einige interessante Aspekte hinzuaddiert, sind der Vorlage trotzdem treu geblieben und haben einen Film geschaffen, der über die volle Laufzeit trägt und nicht wie eine aufgeblasene Kurzgeschichte wirkt. Kann natürlich auch in die Hose gehen, muss aber nicht.

[TomHorn]

Barker beklagt gerade den Unwillen von Lionsgate, den Film in die Kinos zu bringen, da man gerade einen etwaigen DVD-Release-Termin vom Stapel ließ.
Könnte natürlich auch eine PR-Ente sein...

[StS]

Halb richtig. Barker beklagt in erster Linie, dass der Film nur einen sehr limitierten Kinostart in den USA erhalten hat.

Hello my friends,

Clive Barker here. I wish I could be with you in the flesh to talk with you, but I’ve got a battle on my hands here in Los Angeles. So Tony’s kindly agreed to share this letter to you.

To be perfectly honest, I need your help: As you may know, last year I was the executive producer of a movie from one of my BOOKS OF BLOOD stories, called THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. Ryuhei Kitamura directed it and he did a superb job. The film is scary, stylish and very violent, which is just fine by me. I’m very proud of it.

But there have been signs for a long while that Lionsgate, the company releasing the movie, was going to screw around with it. Release dates were changed and changed again. And my phone calls to the people at Lionsgate, asking for answers, were not returned.

I was finally told that Lionsgate only planned to open the movie in a tiny number of theaters—somewhere between 100 and 300—run it for a week, then put it on DVD.

In other words, they were going to dump our movie.

This has nothing to do with the quality of our picture. In fact, it is happening to a number of other movies in Lionsgate’s hands, many of which were guided into production by a great friend of horror movies, Peter Block, who left the company several months ago.

It was his exit that caused our present situation. A new man, Joe Drake, replaced Peter Block and—as happens so often in Hollywood—I believe he decided to trash all the projects Peter Block had supported.

It seems not to matter that a lot of very talented men and women sweated to create this picture—knowing that all the horror fans who see it, will love it. It’s being dumped because of company politics. Simple as that.

So…

I’m fighting back.

And I’m asking you now to fight with me.

If you want to see THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN on the big screen the way it should be seen, please contact Joe Drake at Lionsgate and tell him your feelings.

Here’s how to do it:

You can contact Joe Drake directly at [email protected] or call the main switchboard at Lionsgate, which is (310) 449-9200, and ask for Joe Drake’s office. You can also get the information from my official website, which is www.clivebarker.info.

Please be polite in your protest. We don’t want to worsen the situation by making our attacks personal.

Thank you all so much for listening and thank you for supporting my books and films over the years. I promise to try to keep bringing you the best work I can do.

Finally, let me thank you in advance for helping us to get THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN running to our fans across America.

My love to you,

And best wishes,

As always,

Clive

[freeman]

Dat Ding soll nun ungeprüft von Universal auf deutscher DVD rauskommen ... Hatte man sowas schonmal von nem Majorlabel?

Gucke zum Beispiel hier

In diesem Sinne:
freeman