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Demand Solomon Kane in your area

Waldgeist — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:09:27 +0000

As it is with all independent movie productions, after the struggle of bringing them to live, after the producers convinced the investors of their vision, they have to make the film. Very often that happens in much tighter fashion, with less money, less luxuries than the average Hollywood production. Those are the guys, that put in their heart and their soul and quite often their own private money, some of them putting their private money at risk, to realize a dream.

Solomon Kane has been adopted by many countries around europe, as the pricetag to release a movie in europe is much lower and so smaller movies or independent movies are picked much more often for a cinema release, than in bigger countries, with bigger audiences like the United States. Now that the puritan has started to take over Europe, the american distributors are still not fully convinced, they want to give Solomon Kane a wide release with proper large ad-campaign and NOW it’s your turn to help the puritan.

Help Solomon Kane to make it to the United States, Canada or wherever you live by DEMANDING IT! This has helped other independent movies like Paranormal Activity and we fans of the puritans are clearly not less passionate. So let’s create a virtual boat for Solomon Kane, so he can sail over to the new world and smash the demons of the USA.

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New date for UK release for Solomon Kane and more Specials!

Waldgeist — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:18:31 +0000

According to the blog of Michael J. Bassett, the release date for UK for Solomon Kane movie, has been put earlier than planned. The first dates were hinting at March, due to a similar window of the possible US release, but now Paul Berrow and Mr. Bassett have announced, that the UK release will be happening at the 19th of February this year. Aside from that the Spanish and Russian cinema audience seems to be enjoying Solomon Kane a lot more than the French did. The publishers told Mr. Berrow (as he told the fans in the Conan.com boards) that the movie is making a good move in those territories.

And on that bombshell it’s time to show you more of the constantly pushed out specials and making of’s for the Solomon Kane Movie, that try to show you more of it’s production and blood and sweat and tears and the passion that went into making it.

Solomon Kane Movie Making of (wrong aspect ratio)

The Fights of Solomon Kane

Michael J. Bassett interviewed by REH fan about Solomon Kane Movie

Waldgeist — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:23:20 +0000

Both producer Paul Berrow and director Michael J. Bassett have been very open and communicative with the followers of Robert E. Howard on the official REH Forums. This time a fellow Robert E. Howard fan got the chance to snatch away some time in the interview section of the spanish premiere, to ask Michael J. Bassett some of the questions that have been circling around in the REH community for a while.

Interview with Michael J. Bassett about Solomon Kane

More clips from the Solomon Kane Movie

Waldgeist — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:20:52 +0000

France is being invaded by the puritan Solomon Kane and the ever working marketing machinery doesn’t stand still, not even over the holidays. Here we have two more interesting and great looking clips from the Solomon Kane Movie.

One shows a fight scene in a courtyard against some witch and her followers while the other is a making of, explaining the creature creation of Solomon Kane in more detail.

Every clip that is being released so far just heightens my anticipation, because every scene is dark and moody and matches Howard’s description of the world very well. Even though Michael J. Bassett took quite some liberties from REH to create his origin story, he certainly captured the world and the mood essence of REH’s yarns perfectly.

Fight in Courtyard

Creature Features

Two exciting clips from the movie Solomon Kane

Waldgeist — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:19 +0000

The cinema release in France is quickly closing in and Solomon Kane is pretty much up against the marketing power of Cameron’s AVATAR, but these last weeks and days are also filled with new and exciting sneak peaks into the movie, through several teaser being released. Here we have the first two, one showing a scene from the beginning of the movie, when Solomon Kane is still a mercenary for the Queen and raids a village in North-Africa and the second one is a scene where the family he travels with gets captured by badies.

So far the media attention for these two teasers has been astonishing. Not one major or minor movie dedicated page missed out on spreading the news. Everyone is excited to see the movie and of course we are still waiting for a US-release date to be announced. Stay tuned!

Enjoy!

Capture of Family in Forest – Solomon Kane

The Hall of Mirrors – Solomon Kane

In-depth interview with Michael J. Bassett director of Solomon Kane

Waldgeist — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:32:15 +0000

Yesterday evening Michael J. Bassett together with James Purefoy attended a preview screening of Solomon Kane for the french audience in Paris. We’ll see what the french audience has to say on Solomon Kane very soon. But for now here is another, very interesting in-depth interview with Michael J. Bassett on Solomon Kane, where he goes a bit more into detail about his decisions, his goals and his general intention of the film itself.

I can’t wait to hear the news of a German distributor, but since Splendid film recently picked up the rights to distribute the upcoming Conan movie, they maybe interested in more Howard material. All I can say to them (and I say it in German): “Lasst euch diese Chance nicht entgehen Splendid!”

Official release of several SK release dates

Waldgeist — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:44:56 +0000

After a long time of wait, some rumours and some times being written on IMDB and then taken down, the official Solomon Kane Facebook Page has released a couple of release dates for some of the areas where Solomon Kane will get a cinema release.

Here is the list of Solomon Kane release dates:

France – 23rd December 2009
Russia – 31st December 2009
Spain – 1st January 2010
Netherlands – 14th January 2010
UK – 5th February 2010

Now all the rest of us has to do is sit tight and hope other distributors come out in the open with their dates too or in the case of the US area, buy the movie and release it to a broad audience!

Austin Fantastic Filmfest Reviews are coming in!

Waldgeist — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:59:14 +0000

The second film festival of Solomon Kane is over and more people have gotten the chance to see the Solomon Kane Film and enjoy the puritan rising to greatness. The Austin Fantastic Filmfest was the second place where Michael J. Bassett and Paul Berrow have travelled to show their master piece to the eager and interested fantasy crowd. This crowd of genre fans of course has their own opinion on the dark fantasy horror spectacle Solomon Kane and here is a list, we will update as reviews come in, of reviews from the AFF screening.

Quietearth
FridayNightFlicks
FilmSchoolRejects
HitFix
IGN
VivaLaGeek
Crossplain Pilgrim Review (serious REH fan)
Film.com
Popjournalism
Aintitcool
Variety
Chud
JoBlo

It’s nice to see Solomon Kane reaching a broader and wider audience of genre fans, that hopefully will go out of the cinema and right on to their Facebook account to spread the word of the greatness that is Solomon Kane.

Solomon Kane TIFF Midnight Madness Report

Waldgeist — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:36:16 +0000

A longer report on the Solomon Kane Midnight Madness has been published on youtube. It starts with the “red-carpet” scene where Producer Paul Berrow and Samuel Hadida together with Michael J. Bassett answer some quick questions while walking into the cinema hall right before Midnight Madness begins.

The second video is a recording of the Q&A session right after the Solomon Kane Film has been shown to the audience. Again Michael J. Bassett and James Purefoy jump back on the stage to answer the questions to the eager and interested audience.

Every piece of information I can get my hands on, just makes me more excited about the film and I am really looking forward to seeing this on the big screen around the world and I hope it will be huge success, because Solomon Kane, as one of the most interesting characters Howard invented, deserves major screen presence in the future. There are stories to be told and lessons to be learned about this wise and massively interesting character – Solomon Kane.

Toronto Film Festival is over and Solomon Kane was a huge success

Waldgeist — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:43:00 +0000

Now Toronto Film Festival is over and the first public screening of Solomon Kane was supposedly a huge success, as Michael J. Bassett has written on his private blog yesterday. All over the Internet we can see reviews popping up (some of the press related reviews we’ve listed for your convenience) and especially the reviews of the Solomon Kane Film written by genre fans are hugely positive, as this example portraits.

TIFF also marks the beginning of new community related Solomon Kane projects. The official Solomon Kane Facebook page has come to live, as well as the connected Twitter and also on Myspace will you find a new home for fans of the Puritan Solomon Kane. All those are pretty fresh and I bet will receive more tweaking, content and of course followers as time goes by, so join the ride!

Midnight Madness Review of Dreadcentral.com

TIFF ’09: Midnight Madness – Video Report Night 7
von dreadcentral