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Archives: 2009 | 2008
July 17, 2010SAN DIEGO COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL 2010
The link to Comic Con, the biggest show of its kind in the country, is HERE! July 8, 2010FAMOUS MONSTERS CONVENTION JULY 9-11, 2010! |
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Here are the next playdates for the LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN/DARK AND STORMY NIGHT double feature behemoth extravaganza: the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood on July 25, 26, 28 and29. That's Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. The order of showing will alternate...just to keep you on your toes...Watch the New Bev website for further details.
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May 15, 2010
BANTAM STREET BLOCKBUSTERS IN BOSTON!
LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN and DARK AND STORMY NIGHT double-feature in May!
See these great comedies on the big screen in Boston May 21, 2010!
The first dates have been announced for the theatrical run of two new Larry Blamire comedies, THE LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN and DARK AND STORMY NIGHT.
The films will open in Boston at the wonderful Coolidge Corner Theatre on May 21st. Ticket info will be available at the usual online sources, including the Coolidge website: http://www.coolidge.org/
Prior to that the Coolidge will play the original cult classic THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA as midnight shows on May 14th and 15th. If you haven’t seen this on the big screen with an audience of live people you owe it to yourself to do so.
DARK AND STORMY NIGHT stars Daniel Roebuck, Jennifer Blaire, Fay Masterson, Brian Howe, Andrew Parks, Dan Conroy, Kevin Quinn, Christine Romeo, H.M. Wynant, Jim Beaver, James Karen,Bruce French, Robert Deveau, Trish Geiger, Alison Martin, Susan McConnell, Tom Reese, Betty Garrett, Marvin Kaplan, Larry Blamire, Bob Burns and Mark Redfield! The film will be released nationwide by Shout! Factory in August of this year.
May 14, 2010
ARTIST NEIL D. VOKES TO ILLUSTRATE ‘THE CHANEY MURDER CASE’
We’re very proud to announce that Neil D. Vokes will create the interior illustrations for Mark Redfield’s novel THE CHANEY MURDER CASE, due for publication this Fall.
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May 13, 2010
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #250 COMING SOON!
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I've contributed seven essays in this wonderful tribute issue dedicated to Forrest J Ackerman for the new Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine from publisher Philip Kim and Editors Michael Heisler and Jessie Lilley. Check it out and pre-order this issue, and check out how to subscribe to the all-new FM starting with issue #251! |
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April 20, 2010
‘THE CHANEY MURDER CASE’ A NEW NOVEL BY MARK REDFIELD COMING FALL, 2010
| Coming this Fall, The Chaney Murder Case is the first novel by actor and filmmaker Mark Redfield. Set in the days just after The Great War, as Hollywood grew into a dream factory and America left the Age of Innocence, The Chaney Murder Case is a mystery/thriller that features the great actor Lon Chaney at the dawn of his spectacular stardom becoming involved in a disappearance and murder on the studio back lot. A work of fiction, Redfield draws upon his great admiration of one of America’s great screen actors and his own background as an actor to craft a tale that is by turns comic and dark. Join the facebook fan site today: http://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-CHANEY-MURDER-CASE-a-novel-by-Mark-Redfield/119324978082897?ref=mf |
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April 19, 2010
UPCOMING CONVENTION APPEARANCES FOR 2010
Mark Redfield will be appearing at the following festivals and conventions in 2010. Check back for updates and additions.
MONSTER BASH. June 25-27, 2010. Butler, PA
Redfield will be exhibiting new cartoons and paintings! See new works in the series “Stories Poe Never Told”.
Following a classic 50’s sci-fi theme this year, guests include: War of the Worlds’ Ann Robinson, Creature from the Black Lagoon’s Julie Adams, 50’s monster-miester Bert I Gordon and more.
http://www.monsterbashnews.com/bash.html
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND July 9-10, 2010. Indianapolis, IN
Redfield will host a talk and screening on indie horror filmmaking.
Famous Monsters is back and better than ever! This premiere convention from new FM publisher Philip Kim and magazine editors Michael Heisler and Jessie Lilley bring Forrest J. Ackerman’s beloved genre magazine into the 21st Century with an event that fans have been waiting for! Show guests include Thomas Jane, Eric Roberts, Margot Kidder, Ken Foree and many, many more. New guests added over the next month, so check in with them often, and watch for the publication of the all new Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine!
http://famousmonstersconvention.com/
FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC FILMS October 15-17, 2010. Manchester, UK
This small, intimate, but lively festival continues to be a Brit fave among conventions and festivals! This year guests include Bond Girl Eunice Gayson, screenwriter Stephen Volk, Bert I Gordon and Susan Gordon. Redfield will be signing copies of his novel The Chaney Murder Case at the show.
http://fantastic-films.com/festival/
April 17, 2010
REDFIELD ARTS AUDIO BOOK UPDATES
| THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU Redfield Arts Audio is putting the finishing touches on its production of the TERROR OF FU MANCHU audio book, read by Mark Redfield! |
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MORE TITLES COMING THIS FALL
Other titles already completed ALSO debuting this Fall include Charles Dickens’A CHRISTMAS CAROL, MARK TWAIN: HOW TO TELL A STORY, Robert Louis Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE LOST WORLD.
Watch the Redfield Arts website this Fall for news and to order Redfield Arts Audio Books-On-Tape!
April 16, 2010
NEW ‘DEATH OF POE’ DVD REVIEW IN SCARY MONSTERS MAGAZINE!
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There’s a fine review of the Redfield Arts film The Death of Poe in the current issue of Scary Monsters Magazine, written by David Alex Nahmod. The issue is packed with great articles by Martin Powell, Bob Statzer, Ron Adams and many more of publisher Dennis Druktenis’ great stable of contributors. Get it on newsstands, Barnes and Noble or Border’s Books today! Order The Death of Poe HERE. |
January 4, 2010
EAST COAST PREMIERE OF JEFFREY COMBS IN “NEVERMORE, AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE”
THE EDGAR ALLAN POE HOUSE AND MUSEUM IN BALTIMORE
Proudly Presents
THE EAST COAST PREMIERE of
JEFFREY COMBS in
NEVERMORE, AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE
Written by Dennis PAOLI Directed by Stuart GORDON
East Coast Premiere Produced by Jeff JEROME and Mark REDFIELD
TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY! ORDER YOUR TICKETS BEFORE WE SELL OUT!
WHEN: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23rd, 2010 at 7pm (doors open to the public at 6pm)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24th, 2010 AT 4:30pm (doors open to the public at 3:30pm)
The performance is 90 minutes without intermission. Children under 9 years not allowed.
WHERE: WESTMINSTER HALL (the burial place of Edgar Allan Poe) 519 West Fayette Street (corner Fayette and Greene), Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Tickets are $35.00 (Order your tickets at www.poebicentennial.com on the TICKETS page). Tickets are transferable, but not refundable.
Celebrate Poe’s birthday with us this January as we go beyond the bicentennial and present this astounding tour de force! You’ve heard about this remarkable one-man show and your friends who have seen it agree with the LA Times, calling Jeffrey Combs work “a landmark performance”!
Stay after the performance for our famous Birthday toast to Poe, and an after-show discussion with star Jeffrey Combs and director Stuart Gordon, moderated by Mark Redfield.
About the play, NEVERMORE, An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe
The Poe House and Museum is proud to present the East Coast premiere of this exciting work which debuted in Los Angeles at the Steve Allen Theater on July, 2009. Sold-out houses and multiple extensions brought the run in Los Angeles to a close on December 19, 2009. Hundreds of fans have seen the show and raved about Jeffrey Combs portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe. NEVERMORE, An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe recreates the public recitals that Poe presented during the last few years of his life. This is Poe in his own words. The text is taken from his letters and essays.
“A landmark performance” –LA Times
ABOUT JEFFREY COMBS : Combs has appeared in over 75 stage productions during his long and successful career. He has performed at numerous theaters including the Old Globe, the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and the Arizona Theatre Company.
He has starred in over 50 films and is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Herbert West in the cult classic RE-ANIMATOR. He also starred in FROM BEYOND, LOVE & A .45, the recent remake of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and Peter Jackson’s THE FRIGHTENERS among many others.
Over the span of his career, Jeffrey has also guest starred on many TV series including THE 4400, COLD CASE, and CSI. He appeared in almost 50 episodes as three different recurring roles within the STAR TREK franchise. He has also portrayed Poe on film in Stuart Gordon’s THE BLACK CAT, a highly acclaimed episode of Showtime’s MASTERS OF HORROR series.
“A must-see” - Metromix
ABOUT DENNIS PAOLI (playwright): Paoli has written screenplays and plays, many of them adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe (RE-ANIMATOR, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM) many of them collaborations with many other writers (BEACH BUMS, BODYSNATCHERS), most of those with Stuart Gordon (DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE, THE BLACK CAT, FROM BEYOND). He teaches Gothic fiction (among other literature) and academic writing at Hunter College in New York City, and is Director of the Heidi Paoli Fund, to support cancer patients.
“Beautifully directed” – LA Weekly
ABOUT STUART GORDON (director): Gordon has been collaborating with writer Dennis Paoli since their high school comedy group called The Human Race hit the boards nearly 50 years ago and with actor Jeffrey Combs since they joined forces on the cult film RE-ANIMATOR almost 25 years ago. In 1969 Gordon and his wife Carolyn founded Chicago’s Organic Theater Company, where as artistic director he produced and directed over 35 original plays. These included the science fiction trilogy WARP which was performed on Broadway, the world premiere of David Mamet’s SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, and POE, his first exploration of the life and works of the tormented writer.
Stuart Gordon is also known for his film adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft which include FROM BEYOND and DAGON; as the co-creator of Disney’s HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS and as the director of EDMOND, the film adaptation of David Mamet’s play.
Order your tickets NOW at www.poebicentennial.com
January 4, 2010
NEW ART BY MARK REDFIELD ON ETSY
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Check out the new art for sale on Redfield’s Etsy site!The new stuff includes cartoons and paintings of Poe, Silent Screen Stars like Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, famous monsters of filmland like Boris Karloff, and many others! New drawings and paintings are added weekly!
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January 2, 2010
THE GAME COMES HOME
From filmmaker Jeff Herberger (cameraman for The Death of Poe and Come Hell or High Water):
Dear Friends,
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The Documentary Film “THE GAME COMES HOME –THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL IN WASHINGTON DC”, a film that Willy Meaux & myself, Jeff Herberger, started almost 4 year ago is finally going to get to be seen by a larger audience other than the local Washington Film Fests its been in. Washington Capitols owner Ted Leonsis has personally screened our film, and now Longthrow Multimedia Int. has signed an Internet Distribution Contract with his Documentary Showcase Website SNAG FILMS. Check out the terrific Narration by Mark Redfield. Check it out http://www.snagfilms.com/films/hot/recent <http://www.snagfilms.com/films/hot/recent> -Jeff |
January 2, 2010
KARL E. DEVOS (1972-2009)
Karl DeVos, my cameraman for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, died on December 12, 2009. He was 37.
Words fail. I'm still absorbing the shock of the news.
When we embarked on the adventure of Jekyll and Hyde earlier this century, digital filmmaking was an iffy proposition. Festivals and distributors weren't embracing them. Karl's background was in commercials and industrials as a shooter and an editor. He embraced the mad notion of doing a period feature film, and gave it everything he had. He created beautiful images on a tight schedule and budget. One of the greatest compliments I ever heard regarding the look of the film came from filmmaker and artist Frank Dietz, who saw the film projected at the State Theater in Modesto, California. After the screening Frank wondered if the film was shot on 35mm film.
Karl researched and plotted the light design carefully. He studied classical American film composition of the 1940's based on my design notes. Karl fought with the primitive composite software that was available to us to create images, designed the main titles and edited the montage sequences for the film. Karl was responsible for researching and assembling our first edit suite at the studio. His contributions were enormous and invaluable.
I enjoyed every moment of our collaboration. We worked on other feature projects together, as well as a few industrials and informational films for other clients. Karl loved old movies. He collected vintage cameras. He loved my mother's fried chicken.
Watching this trailer on a computer doesn't do his work justice or show it in the proper "light', but I put it here as homage and thanks. Because words fail.
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