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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Ghost and the Darkness from 1996, Saw from 2004, and Toy Story of Terror from 2013.
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical
adventure horror film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.
The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.
The film received mixed reviews and grossed $75 million against a production budget of $55 million.
It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins.
Written by: William Goldman.
Based on: The Man-eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson.
Produced by: Gale Anne Hurd, Paul B. Radin, and A. Kitman Ho.
Starring: Michael Douglas, and Val Kilmer.
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond.
Edited by: Robert Brown, Roger Bondelli, and Steve Mirkovich.
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith.
Production companies: Constellation Films, and Douglas/Reuther Productions.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures.
Release date: 11 October 1996.
File Length: 110 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $55 million.
Box office: $87 million.
Saw is a 2004 American horror film directed by James Wan, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Leigh Whannell, from a story by Wan and Whannell.
It is the first instalment in the Saw film series, and stars Whannell alongside Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, and Ken Leung.
The film tells a nonlinear narrative revolving around the mystery of the Jigsaw Killer, who tests his victims' will to live by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive.
The frame story follows Jigsaw's latest victims (Whannell and Elwes), who awaken in a large, dilapidated bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other to save his own family.
The screenplay was written by Whannell, who co-created the story with Wan in their respective screenwriting debuts.
The film was originally written in 2001, but after failed attempts to get the script produced in Wan and Whannell's home country of Australia, they were urged to travel to Los Angeles.
In order to help attract producers, they shot a low-budget short film of the same name from a scene out of the script.
This proved successful in 2003 as producers were immediately attached and also formed a horror genre production label, Twisted Pictures.
The film was given a small production budget and was shot in 18 days.
Saw was first screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January, 2004.
Due to positive audience reception, Lionsgate picked up the distribution rights for the film.
Originally planned for a straight-to-video release, they decided to instead release the film in theaters in North America on 29 October, 2004.
The film received mixed reviews from critics.
After topping the opening weekend box office, the film would go on to gross $103.9 million worldwide to become one of the most profitable horror films since Scream (1996).
A sequel, titled Saw II was released in October 2005.
The success of Saw launched a media franchise, including several films, video games, theme park rides, and merchandising.
Directed by: James Wan.
Screenplay by: Leigh Whannell.
Story by: James Wan, and Leigh Whannell.
Produced by: Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, and Mark Burg.
Starring: Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, and Leigh Whannell.
Cinematography: David A. Armstrong.
Edited by: Kevin Greutert.
Music by: Charlie Clouser.
Production company: Twisted Pictures.
Distributed by: Lions Gate Films.
Release dates: 19 January 2004 (Sundance), and 29 October 2004.
File Length: 96 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1–1.2 million.
Box office: $103.9 million.
Toy Story of Terror! is an American animated Halloween television special produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the Toy Story franchise.
It is set after the events of Toy Story 3, and premiered on the American television network ABC on 16 October, 2013.
It was written and directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Galyn Susman, with Joan Cusack, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy Dalton, and Kristen Schaal reprising their roles of Jessie, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, and Trixie with Carl Weathers as Combat Carl and Stephen Tobolowsky as the motel manager.
Michael Giacchino
composed the music for the special.
The film's soundtrack was released on 15 October, 2013, on Amazon.com and iTunes in digital format.
The special follows the toys on a road trip, when a flat tire leads Bonnie and her mother to spend the night in a roadside motel.
After Mr. Potato Head goes missing, the others begin to search for him, but they find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that leads them to a big conspiracy.
Genre: Comedy horror.
Written by: Angus MacLane.
Directed by: Angus MacLane.
Voices of: Joan Cusack, Carl Weathers, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Stephen Tobolowsky, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy Dalton, and Kristen Schaal.
Music by: Michael Giacchino.
Country of origin: United States.
Original language: English.
Producer: Galyn Susman.
Editor: Axel Geddes.
File Length: 21 minutes.
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, and Disney Television Animation.
Network: ABC.
Release: 16 October 2013.
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