Via Wiley Wiggins comes the following item from the Fox News channel:

"Last week... Paul Schrader took a gamble. He showed his version [of Exorcist: The Beginning] at the [Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film]. He and the cast, [which includes Stellan Skarsgard, Billy Crawford, Clara Bellar, and Gabriel Mann], all showed up -- on their own dime, since no studio now identifies itself with the movie.

The bet worked. Critics wrote admiring reviews. Variety, in particular, sang Schrader's praises: 'Schrader's intelligent, quietly subversive pic emphasizes spiritual agony over horror ecstasy, while paying occasional lip service to the need for scares ... Schrader has delivered a 100-percent Paul Schrader film, drenched in the spiritual and moral angst that's watermarked his career.'

The payoff is that Morgan Creek and Warner Brothers are going to release Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Original Prequel in the next two months.
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# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 3/24/2005 05:22:00 PM

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