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Cutting up more Saw V for your consumption
Thursday, October 23, 2008
With the premiere date of Saw V happening tomorrow it’s the right time to inform you that MovieSet now has 14 videos on our sitelet for the film. We’ve added interviews with all of the cast including Mr. Saw himself, Tobin Bell, as well as Costas Mandylor (Hoffman), Julie Benz (Brit) and Meagan Good (Jill), Betsey Russell (Luba). We’ve also got video interviews with director David Hackl, writer Patrick Melton, producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg and three clips from the sequel. Oh yeah, and there are now 17 stills added, too. Start cutting into it.
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Saw V videos and more at MovieSet
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Just in time for Halloween, on October 24th, 2008, the folks at Twisted Pictures are releasing the fifth in their successful horror franchise.
SAW opened nationwide on Friday, October 29, 2004. The film stunned industry observers by debuting at #3 with a weekend take of $18.3 million and it remained in the Top 10 for 4 weeks. Produced for just $1.2 million, SAW went on to worldwide box office earnings of over $103 million ($55.2M domestic, $47.7M international). It won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2004 San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival; the Special Jury Prize and Youth Jury Prize (both to James Wan) at the 2005 Gérardmer (France) Film Festival (a/k/a Festival de Gérardmer – Fantastic Arts); and the Pegasus Audience Award (also to James Wan) at the 2005 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film. SAW was released on DVD/home video on February 15, 2005; it debuted at #1 on the home entertainment charts and sold 2.2 million units in its first week. It was the top-selling horror DVD of 2005.
It just made good financial sense to keep a good thing going. So that’s how we get to V.
Here’s the synopsis of Saw V:
Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.
Here are some film stills for you to sink your hacksaw into:
For more stills and awesome video content check out the official MovieSet sitelet for Saw V.
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Saw V on MovieSet
Friday, October 17, 2008
One week from today Lionsgate will release Saw V and either they want to keep all details about the film top secret for spoiler reasons or they’re marketing the film on the basis that if you know what the Saw franchise is about, you already know what the fifth movie is going to be. Here’s the only released info about Saw V’s storyline: “Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is seemingly the last person to carry on the
Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on
the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.” Seriously, that’s it.
But at least we now have new photos to look and wonder about.
Lionsgate just dropped a dozen new stills from Saw V and we’ve now got them warehoused on MovieSet’s sitelet for the film. We still are just as much in the dark about how Jigsaw, the guy behind the murders in the first two Saw movies, is back in #5, or how his apprentice is also back as well since they’re both supposed to be (and are in the movie continuity) dead. But the story puzzles and their subsequent plot twists are what we’ve come to expect from this horror franchise. That said, there is one creative ingredient different this time around: there’s new guy in the director’s chair, David Hackl, who served as second unit director on Saw III and Saw IV as well as production designer on the past three. Hackl is taking over main director duties from Darren Lynn Bousman (who went off to make Repo: The Genetic Opera). Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the writers from the previous Saw as well as Feast, are back behind the story on this new Saw.
We’ve also got the trailer on MovieSet’s home for Saw V, so take a look and see if it starts to get you in the Halloween mood — or just hungry for some food (you sicko).
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“Saw V” is looking for bleeders
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Like it or not, for the past four years around Halloween there has been a new Saw movie and 2008 won’t be
an exception. Saw V is going to come out on October 24 and I’m pretty sure that there will be more gruesome traps and gory deaths to behold. One of the cooler aspects of the Saw franchise is that they get a blood drive going during the lead-up to the new movie’s release. Even if you think that this franchise has been tapped and drained dry, you have to admit that it is kind of cool that the studio is trying to do something positive from all of their imaginary bloodletting.
The new poster for the Saw V blood drive has just been released and our friends at Lionsgate thought that you’d like to see it.
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Saw V at MovieSet
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Saw V has it’s own sitelet here at MovieSet. You can check out the teaser trailer there if you like. The first Saw was creative, made for minimal cost and made money. In fact being made for an estimated $1.2 million and then grossing $55,153,403 is the perfect Hollywood formula to warrant a sequel, maybe even two, but five? I guess so, as Saw IV made for $10 million grossed $117 million. However, when will this cows milk run dry?
There’s no way this can keep working. Eventually even the masses will catch on and figure out they’re being played.
Take this photo for example:
Brent here at MovieSet pointed out out how well coifed the hair of the gentleman the box is. The hair and makeup departments were definitely on the ball and did their “finals” before this take. Ugh.
Also, upon further study of this still you wonder, “Do all serial killers have excellent lighting inside their maniacal killing devices?” Something tells me that’s not the case.
Hey Mr. Director, your filmmaking is showing.
Story, if you dare to call it that, exists in these films only as a means to get Character A into Situation X where he/she can be creatively and horrifically killed.
I’ll see this one for sure if only purely for the car crash rubbernecking experience of it. But who knows, sometimes bad is good.
My prediction? This film will make money, I’ll lose a little more faith in humanity and we’ll see more Saw films. There are rumors of Saw VI already.
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