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'The Gate' Remake Gets Financed, Shoots This Summer!
Monday, July 6, 2009


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After loads of loads of talk, H20 Motion Pictures has finally received financing for their forthcoming remake of The Gate, which will be shot in 3-D by actor-turned-director Alex Winter (who you might know from the Bill and Ted movies and Lost Boys. You can read the details inside. No word on any casting yet.

Frankfurt’s HessenInvestFilm and Stuttgart-based MFG Baden-Württemberg have allocated $1.9m (€1.35m) to Germany’s first 3D live action film, Alex Winter’s The Gate.

The UK-born actor-director’s remake of the 1987 horror film will begin production at the MMC Studios in Cologne in the late summer. The film has also received $1.2m (€900,000) from Düsseldorf’s Filmstiftung NRW.

The original, which starred Stephen Dorff, followed three young children who accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.

It is the second collaboration between the studios’ production arm MMC Independent and Andras Hamori’s H20 Motion Pictures after they co-produced Stephen Frears’ Cheri last year.

Visual effects for The Gate will be handled by the Frankfurt and Stuttgart studios of Pixomondo. Its recent credits include Niki Muellerschoen’s The Red Baron, Roland Emmerich’s 2012 and James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin.

In addition, HessenInvestFilm awarded $384,523 (€250,000) for UK writer-director Mark Cairns’ mystery thriller Cold Storage, which is being planned as a 3D feature by Frankfurt’s MagnaManaProduction.




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milkieboy
12:37pm, July 6, 2009

I've never seen the original.


Mecha
12:39pm, July 6, 2009

wow, looks and smells like garbage all around. why does the film industry continue to go back and RE DEAUX films. it's sad....just sad.


MamaLukuBuku
1:33pm, July 6, 2009

LOL I was just watching the original like 3 days ago. Weird...


Mikie
2:04pm, July 6, 2009

YES! Ive waited for an update on this! im so excited!


horrorchick81
2:50pm, July 6, 2009

ok cant anyone in hollywood come up with ORIGINAL ideas??? i guess not...


herbert west austin
3:50pm, July 6, 2009

I Love love love the original the way it is.


stopmotion
4:27pm, July 6, 2009

here's a screendaily article about it. also names the writer. http://www.screendaily.com/news/finance/europe/german -regional-fund-hands-147m-to-co-productions/5000876.article looks like it might be cool. fingers crossed.


stopmotion
4:29pm, July 6, 2009

the link again http://www.screendaily.com/news/finance/europe/g erman-regional-fund-hands-147m-to-co-productions/5000876.ar ticle


GoreGore_Dancer
4:48pm, July 6, 2009

The original is so good!!The demons were adorable,it's hard to believe it was a somewhat kids movie though.


Skratchy
5:16pm, July 6, 2009

Alex Winter? Fuck yeeeeesss! Loved Freaked. That movie rocked so hard. Hopefully he puts a lot of his own humor into it; they'd go hand in hand.


SpikeGhost
5:26pm, July 6, 2009

Damn a movie like that could be incredibly scary... i hope they're going to make it scary cause the potential it would have it great.


Montgomery
6:03pm, July 6, 2009

The original was great fun and I'm far from pro remakes but if this stays in keeping with Winter's other work it could be an absolute riot.


Krug09
8:08pm, July 6, 2009

What is it with remakes and 3D? Just regular 2D is fine.


Gargus
11:09pm, July 6, 2009

A fucking remake of the gate? I love the original, but the gate was a snapshot in time of horror movies, it can not be recreated in the same style or feel today. In the end the basic plot of gate to hell accidently opened by a couple kids and the movie title will probablly be the only things it has in common with the original.


shdwmnkyx
2:10am, July 7, 2009

Alex Winter is pimp. I hope they remake more stuff so my faith in humanity's creativity dies further.


BangOnEM
4:34am, July 7, 2009

Never heard of it, but now i'm lookin' foward to it.


HornyToad69
12:55pm, July 7, 2009

All these remakes is really pissing people off,Why can't Hollywood come up with a fresh idea......Pathetic


Demented D
8:57am, July 8, 2009

3D? Give me a break. I can just see a whole slew of 3D movies coming out on behalf of My Bloody...'s success.


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