06/17/08 2:09PM
Help Save Clive Barker=92s Midnight Meat Train!
A Plea from Clive Barker:
My Dear Friends,
As you may or may not have heard, due to certain politics, "Midnight
Meat Train" is in danger of Lionsgate not giving it a wide release.
The below email was brought to my attention earlier today and shows a
movement, of sorts, in order to get the picture the proper sup****t and
release it deserves. I'm asking you to please help spread the word in
order for all to enjoy this film. I want to passionately encourage
everybody who cares about my work to use this chance to change the
minds of the folks at Lionsgate. I'm excited at the prospect of a
movement of people who care deeply enough to initiate a campaign such
as this.
Anything any of you can do - be it emails, web postings, word of
mouth, and the like - to help encourage this movement would be deeply
appreciated. The film is worth the effort in my mind, and I do not
want to see my work fall by the wayside.
If any of you have any further ideas, thoughts, or suggestions to help
with this effort, please let me know.
Thanks, as always, for your help and sup****t.
Much Love,
Clive
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From: Meat Lover Date: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Subject: Meat Train Campaign
To: FrightReviews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian!
I am a concerned citizen who was also at the screening you went to and
feel that Lionsgate are really blowing it with their release plans.
Could you please e-mail and/or post the following message to your
peeps?
WE NEED TO START A VIRAL CAMPAIGN TO GET "MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN" A WIDER
RELEASE!!!
A very reliable SOURCE from Lionsgate has told me that the Lionsgate
decision to "dump" Midnight Meat Train in as few screens as they are
contractually required and then rush the film to DVD is based purely
on INTERNAL POLITICS.
The new head honcho doesn't like the old head honcho and is
deliberately "dumping" all of his films out of spite and malice.
But there is HOPE! The only thing that overrides backstabbing politics
in Hollywood is PURE GREED. It is clearly not healthy for investor
relations to "dump" a movie that has a vocal and dedicated audience.
Midnight Meat Train represents the kind of horror film that audiences
have been dying for!!!
There is growing internal pressure within the company for a wider
release of this film and PUBLIC FAN PRESSURE may help to push this
decision over the edge.
If you wish to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in all its big screen glory at
a THEATER near you, please do the following:
Cut and paste the message at the bottom of this post and e-mail it to:
1) investor relations at Lionsgate: keasterling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) Lionsgate: general-inquiries@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) call the main office at (310) 449-9200 and express your desire to
see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN get the release it deserves.
BE POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL! We don't want to piss them off, just want
them to know how many fans out there would like to shell out their
hard earned cash to see the most groundbreaking horror film of the
past ten years in a real movie theater!
WE'VE WAITED TO LONG FOR THIS MOVIE TO LET IT GO STRAIGHT TO DVD!!!
Post this message everywhere, send it to your horror friends and
spread the word! We need to act FAST to have an effect!!!
And LONG LIVE THE MEAT!!!
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E-mail message (or feel free to compose your own):
Dear Lionsgate,
As a long time Clive Barker fan, I am writing you to express my strong
desire to see "The Midnight Meat Train" on the big screen.
Rumors are currently circulating that the film will only be released
on a limited basis and I am very concerned that I will miss my
op****tunity to see the most highly anticipated Clive Barker film in
over a decade in all of its big screen glory!
There are millions of horror fans like myself who have been
disappointed by the recent trend towards watered down PG-13 horror
movies.? Clive's work represents a return to serious, thought
provoking horror movies and with Ryuhei Kitamura at the helm, I am
even more excited to experience this collaboration as it was intended:
in a packed theater with hundreds of other horror fans like myself!
I urge you to please give this film the release it deserves!
Many thanks,
YOUR NAME
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