I know that many people hate Uwe Boll. However, Lions Gate likes his new movie "ALONE IN THE DARK", and they buys it.



My prediction : 10/30


http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=19815
Lions Gate locks up trio for North America


Jeremy Kay in Santa Monica 05 November 2004 04:00



Lions Gate Films has finalized its deal for North American theatrical and pay TV distribution rights to A Good Woman. In separate deals, the noticeably acquisitive indie also secured all North American rights to Uwe Boll's video game horror adaptation Alone In The Dark as well as to Gianni Amelio's Le Chiavi Di Casa.

Directed by Mike Barker, A Good Woman is the adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan and stars Helen Hunt, Tom Wilkinson and Scarlett Johansson. It was handled by London and Sydney-based sales company Beyond Films.

Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing, and Hilary Davis, head of sales and acquisitions for Beyond, announced the deal on Thursday at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.

“Mike Barker and this cast deliver one of the best Wilde adaptations in years,” said Ortenberg. “The audience reaction at the Toronto premiere made me confident that this film has a winning combination of humor and drama played out on screen by some of the best actors working today.”

The deal was negotiated for Lions Gate by Jason Constantine, senior vice president of acquisitions, and Ortenberg. Davis negotiated on behalf of Beyond.

Alone In The Dark, which stars Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff, is being pegged for a Jan 28 2005 nationwide release. Its story centres on a paranormal investigator who discovers an ancient cult connected to an army of demons.

Boll directed and produced the Sega game adaptation based on a screenplay by Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer.

"Alone In The Dark is a perfect addition to our slate of horror/sci-fi genre films on the pulse of popular culture," noted Ortenberg. "Uwe Boll has taken a game with a voracious following and turned it into a film which completely stands on its own."

That deal was negotiated by Peter Block, Lions Gate's president of acquisitions, television and co-productions, Wendy Jaffe, vice president of business and legal affairs and both Ortenberg and Constantine, with Peter Safran, president of Brillstein-Grey, Uwe Boll and Karyn Edwards and Shawn Williamson of Bright Light Pictures on behalf of the filmmaker.

Gianni Amelio’s film, which is Italy's foreign language Oscar entry, was acquired from Lakeshore Entertainment. Its title literally translates as The Keys To The House.

Lions Gate plans a December release in New York and Los Angeles for the picture, which won the Cinema Avvenire, Pasinetti Award and Sergio Trasatti Award for Best Film at this year's Venice Film Festival.

Charlotte Rampling, Kim Rossi Stuart and newcomer Andrea Rossi star in the drama about a man who meets his handicapped son as a teenager for the first time.

"We are big supporters of foreign language film, and this is exactly the kind of international regional filmmaking we are passionate about bringing to audiences across the country,” said Ortenberg, who negotiated the deal along with Constantine and Wayne Levin, his executive vice president of business and legal affairs.

Rai Cinema, Achab Film and Lakeshore produced the picture and Lakeshore International is handling international sales.

This is the second co-production between Lakeshore and Rai, the first being Ermanno Olmi’s Singing Behind Screens. Lakeshore and the Italian public broadcasting network are also co-producing Amelio's next film The Missing Star, with shooting due to begin in China in spring 2005.

If I was in a room with Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, and Uwe Boll, and I had a gun with only 2 bullets in it, I'd shoot Uwe Boll twice in the testicles and then beat him to death with the gun.

That's how much I hate him.

I'm not a fan of Uwe Boll, but I'm a fan of Lions Gate.
Therefore, I would see "ALONE IN THE DARK". :wink:

This post is gold!

As for my predictions:

Opening weekend - $6.1 million

Total gross - $13.6 million

God, this movie looks horrible (as did House of the Dead), therefore here are my predictions:

$5.5m/$13m

US poster
http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/imag ... rkpost.jpg

I hope this movie fails miserably. It deserves too, and Tara Reid can't act worth a shit.

4/10

$7.4/$13M

Opening: $5.5 million
Total: $11.0 million

Lions Gate's trailer
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/575/575102p1.html

House of the Dead is a ghastly, ghastly movie. That said, I enjoyed the shit out of it, if only as a drunked party movie to laugh at for all the wrong reasons. That said, the trailer for Alone in the Dark would not suggest at all the true nature of how awful a movie it likely is. In fact, if it weren't directed by Uwe Boll, I might actually have some interest in seeing it in theaters. Now while he's widely loathed by everyone online, I bet there's a fair number of suckers that won't know what they're getting themselves into. However, Boogeyman should kill it in the following weekend. 9/21

I love Tara Reid, just for the fact she's a drunken bum.

But anyway, this will be lucky to pass $15M.

$6,000,000
$12,000,000

Shame for DORFF, but he chooses bad movies.

My prediction:

10/20

I love how the filmmakers of Alone in the Dark expect us to buy that Tara Reid is some kind of scientist who saves people from aliens, or whatever this thing is about.

Many people in here know that Uwe Boll sucks.

However, many teens and young adults don't.

The trailer is terrible, the advertising is non-existant, and it is based on a computer game. To me, these will lead to a major bomb.

I'd say $5.8 million opening, $15 million overall.

A horrible director combined with 3 horrible actors.. This has big opening weekend written over it. But Hide and Seek will prevent it from going too big. I think it'll do like $4M Friday to $10M weekend. I've been seeing alot of promo for it on like Fuse, which is it's target audience.

Yes, there are a lot of TV spots.

PS: I personally think that Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff are good actors. Sadly, they always star in bad movies ......

Exactly.

Opening: $8 million, Total: $20 million

Its already a crowded marketplace though. And I think most movie-goers looking for a horror/thriller film will go see Hide and Seek.

I'm re-thinking my prediction. I don't know whether to go as low as $5 million or as high as $10 million. The awareness is quite high, but I don't know if the interest is there. :razz: It might be good for horror fans or gamers, but the R rating is a bit restricting to the teens who actually play the game. Plus, it's not a wildly popular game anyways. Plus, direct competition from Hide and Seek. For now, I'll go with...

Opening: $7.4 million, Total: $16.2 million

Does anyone know the budget for Alone in the Dark? It's probably not high.

I doubt the budget is more then House of the Dead's $15 million.

The budget is a relatively slim 20 million. I don't know how they managed to make this only a few million more then House of the Dead, this looks like it cost far more.

Really? I thought it looked very cheap. The CGi creature (or whatever it is) looked terrible.