MAN-THING moving to theaters

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Friday, October 24, 2003
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

It looks like Artisan's MAN-THING movie won't be going directly to video and not collecting $200. Instead, the studio is hoping their horror picture has legs to earn a tidy sum at the box office: Artisan will release MAN-THING now to theaters on August 27, 2004.

The movie, which stars Jack Thompson, Rawiri Paratene, Matt Le Nevez, Rachel Taylor and Steve Bastoni, is based on the muck-encrusted Marvel Comics monster of the same name. The picture filmed in Australia earlier this year for eight weeks under the supervision of Brett Leonard (THE LAWNMOWER MAN and was written by Hans Rodionoff. MAN-THING is a lower budgeted film, around $15 million dollars, and serves as an experiment for Marvel and another investor (Fierce Entertainment) to see if the comic company's secondary characters can create their own viable film franchises (hey, it worked for BLADE, didn't it?)


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