Sentences with phrase «exorcist prequels»

Not exact matches

Paul Schrader has always been an amazingly protean filmmaker — going all the way back to the late»70s, when the fabled screenwriter of «Taxi Driver» first stepped behind the camera, leaping from «Blue Collar» to «American Gigolo,» from «Cat People» to «Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,» from «Affliction» to «Auto Focus,» from «Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist» to «The Canyons.»

It follows that he has a varied oeuvre that includes both deliberate consistencies (his lonely man series of films) and outlier films like Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist.

He's also been no stranger to studio meddling, having been hired to helm «Dominion,» a prequel to the «Exorcist,» after the death of John Frankenheimer, but the studio ended up shooting the film again, virtually from scratch, with a mostly different cast, with Renny Harlin directing (some elements of Schrader's version survive, but not many).

He was fired from Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and replaced with the director of Die Hard 2 and Cutthroat Island.

(This is not the first time something like this has happened to Schrader; Warner Bros. opted to re-shoot his prequel to The Exorcist with a different director, though ultimately, both versions were released.)

First Reformed is both written and directed by veteran American filmmaker Paul Schrader, director of films including Blue Collar, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Cat People, Light of Day, The Comfort of Strangers, Light Sleeper, Forever Mine, Auto Focus, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, The Walker, Adam Resurrected, The Canyons, The Dying of the Light, and Dog Eat Dog previously.

But according to William Peter Blatty, author of the original's source novel, this costly reshoot of Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist should be credited more to Morgan Creek, the film's production company, than to the director, so I have to factor in such judgments as well.

Horrorshows like this prequel to 1973's genuinely scary The Exorcist have become ever more literal and physical, dominated by a Grand Guignol fascination with the myriad ways the human body can be mutilated.

«The Exorcist» has enjoyed even greater longevity in the Industry, from the still - chilling 1973 original film adapted from William Peter Blatty's book and directed by William Friedkin to the many sequels and prequels of varying quality that have ensured over the past 43 years.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Sort of inevitable that Warner / Morgan Creek's DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't, despite rumours promising the contrary, contain the Paul Schrader incarnation of the film (which will premiere at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (click here for a link to the trailer)-RRB-, so perhaps the bigger letdown of this disc is the coyness of its supplementary material, which alludes to Schrader's version only in terms of the unusual duress that replacement director Renny Harlin was under in helming a prequel to one of the biggest breadwinners in the studio stable.

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An attempt at a prequel featuring Father Merrin resulted in two films released from the same material, the re-tooled Renny Harlin version coming to theaters first as Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), and the original Paul Schrader attempt the following year as Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist prequel featuring Father Merrin resulted in two films released from the same material, the re-tooled Renny Harlin version coming to theaters first as Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), and the original Paul Schrader attempt the following year as Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist Prequel to The Exorcist (2005).

Paul Schrader's A24 thriller First Reformed is one of the director's best per screen averages in years, with $ 25K a theater ($ 100K at four locations) besting Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist ($ 1k PTA off a $ 140K opening), and Autofocus ($ 11K PTA off a $ 123K opening).

Other Stuff We Watched Toronto Fan Expo Choke Canyon The Good, The Bad, The Weird [REC] 2 Dominion: The Prequel to The Exorcist The Exorcist III Speed Racer The Deadly Duo Hero If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise DeLorean Memories of Murder Barking Dogs Never Bite Breaking Bad: Season 2