Halloween/horror music act, Midnight Syndicate will be teaming up with Hollywood FX legend Robert Kurtzman (Dusk till Dawn, co-founder of the KNB EFX Group) and his production company, Precinct 13 Entertainment (Mansfield, OH) to produce the horror-suspense film, The Dead Matter. Development has been underway for several months and pre-production will officially begin on March 1st. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Northeastern Ohio this August with a projected release date sometime in 2008. Midnight Syndicate founder Edward Douglas will be directing the film and producing it independently through the newly-formed Midnight Syndicate Films division of Entity Productions, Inc. The company is currently in talks with horror legends Doug Bradley (Pinhead from the Hellraiser series) and Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster, Air Force One, Lost) to star.
“This is a really exciting time for us. One of our main goals over the past ten years has been to get into a position to remake The Dead Matter with an actual budget” said Edward Douglas who produced and directed an earlier version of the film in Cleveland for $2000 in 1996. “Those familiar with Midnight Syndicate know that horror movies are at the core of everything we do - which is basically soundtrack CDs to imaginary horror films. It’s what we love and that’s why we believe in remaking this particular movie. Co-writer Tony Demci and I have had a lot of time to take what we felt was already a good story and develop it into something that we know is really going to deliver for fans of the horror genre.”
“The Dead Matter project also gets back to the core reason I co-founded Entity Productions in 1994 – to produce horror films here in Northeastern Ohio using as much local talent and resources as possible,” says Douglas. “Most of the investors on this project are locals, too. They, like us, believe in what this region has to offer.”
The Dead Matter tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.
THE NEXT MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE CD - Entity Productions plans to release multiple discs of new Midnight Syndicate material in coordination with the film. “As far as the next Midnight Syndicate CD goes, fans are really going to like what we have planned for the soundtrack,” said Gavin Goszka, who will serve as Music Supervisor for the film. “The Dead Matter soundtrack CD will be in the style of our other Midnight Syndicate releases. Our plan is to integrate music from the movie with new material and atmospherics which will allow listeners to further explore the dark and supernatural world created in the film.”
More information will be coming in the upcoming months on both www.MidnightSyndicate.com and the official The Dead Matter website, www.TheDeadMatter.com.
About Midnight Syndicate
Over the past nine years, Midnight Syndicate’s instrumental horror music CDs have become a staple of the Halloween season, while making an impact in the haunted attraction, gothic music, amusement park, and role-playing game industries. With a catalog of CDs that blend dark, orchestral horror movie score-style music with sound effects, the band, consisting of Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka, has had it’s “soundtracks to imaginary films” featured in everything from Barbara Walters TV specials and Monday Night Football to X-Box games and King Diamond heavy metal concerts. Every October, Midnight Syndicate’s music is featured in thousands of haunted attractions, amusement parks, stores, and neighborhoods worldwide to provide atmosphere for the Halloween season.
About Entity Productions, Inc.
Entity Productions, Inc. (Chardon, OH) formed in 1994 as an independent film company whose goal was to produce horror films in the Northeastern Ohio region. Their first major project was an earlier version of The Dead Matter horror film, which they produced in and around the Cleveland area for less than $2000. In 1997, the company switched its focus to the production, distribution, and promotion of the band Midnight Syndicate, building its own distribution network for Midnight Syndicate’s music from the ground up. Today Entity Productions is one of the largest distributors of Halloween music CDs, supplying thousands of stores worldwide.
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