December 2003. The December/January issue of CINESCAPE
magazine, # 74, features Ron as Hellboy on the front cover, and
includes an article entitled "Behind the Scenes of Guillermo
del Toro's Hellboy."
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November 16, 2003. Ron has a small
role in the new Warner Bros movie, "Looney
Tunes: Back in Action." Brendan Fraser heads a large cast
in this Action / Animation / Fantasy / Adventure / Comedy which was
written by Larry Doyle and directed by Joe Dante.
Filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, and various parts of California,
including Los Angeles, "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" premiered
in the US on 9 November, 2003, but will not be seen in the UK until
13 February, 2004. Release dates for other countries can be found
at the IMDB.
For a full review of the movie, check out Chud.com
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November 15, 2003. "Beauty
and the Beast" fans will be delighted to hear that Ron Perlman
and Linda Hamilton will work together again in a film called "THE
WOODCUTTER " which is about to start filming in Canada. Here's
the news from E! Online:
Danny Glover teams up with Linda Hamilton, David Strathairn,
Ron Perlman and newcomer Zoe Weizenbaum in "The Woodcutter."
The film follows the struggles of a Vietnam War vet (Glover) living
in self-imposed exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest for
more than 30 years. Shooting starts November 17 in Vancouver.
More info on THE WOODCUTTER.
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November 15, 2003. Good News for
fans in the UK! Ron's film "Hoodlum
& Son" is now available for sale and rental on region
2 DVD. You can also order it online for £12.99 (free postage
and packing) at:
http://www.play247.com/
To my knowledge, this DVD doesn't appear to be available in the
region 1 US format at the present time.
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November 13, 2003. Ron and his wife,
Opal, attended the premiere of the action/ adventure movie ""Master
And Commander: The Far Side Of The World"which stars Russell Crowe.
The premiere was held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Los Angeles,
California on November 11, 2003. Photos at celebrityphoto.com.
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November 8, 2003. Guillermo
del Toro told fans on the Hellsite message board that the trailer
for the HELLBOY movie will be in theatres in two weeks time with the
film, THE MISSING.
The first HELLBOY
teaser poster appeared on eBay and sold on November 8 for $40.
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November, 2003.
A new Video Game called TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF LA (2003), has been
added to Ron's Filmography on the IMDB.
Other celebrities involved in this project
include: James Hong, Michael Madsen,
Mako, Gary Oldman, CCH Pounder, Michelle Rodriguez, Christopher Walken,
Russell Wong, and Keone Young.
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October, 2003. Ron
took part in The Madison Battle of The Hill Golf Tournament at Davidsonville,
Maryland on October 28, 2003. For photos,
and full details, visit the official website at:
http://www.battleofthehill.com/default.asp
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October, 2003. Ron and his son Brandon
attended the Special Screening of "ELF,"in Los Angeles on October
26, 2003. Photos on Wire
Image.
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October 25, 2003.
Hellboy Movie Novelization.
This information was passed on to the Hellsite forum by Weston
Ochse.
PRESS RELEASE: The hellish comic book hero Hellboy is being
made into a movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and which will be
adapted to book form by author Yvonne
Navarro. Del Toro directed Blade 2 and Mimic, as
well as the critically acclaimed The Devil's Backbone. Based
on the comic books of Mike Mignola, the Hellboy movie stars
Ron Perlman as the demon action hero with Selma Blair and Rupert Evans.
Bram Stoker Award winning novelist Yvonne Navarro has been asked
to do the novelization for the movie. The author of thirteen published
novels including AfterAge, Mirror Me, Final Impact, as well
as the Species movie novelizations, Aliens: Music of the
Spears and several Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, Yvonne
says she's very excited about working on the project.
The novelization will be available from Simon and Schuster in
mass market paperback and will be a must collectible for Hellboy
fans as well as fans of Yvonne Navarro, who now has five novels scheduled
to be published in 2004. Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy,
is extremely happy that Yvonne will be the writer for the novel adaptation.
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October 21, 2003. Ron Perlman's agent,
Erik Kritzer, has formed a new agency. Please send all mail to Ron
at this new address:
Ron Perlman
c/o Fenton Kritzer Entertainment
12200 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90064
From Daily Variety, 10/14/03:
Managers Erik Kritzer and Steven Fenton have merged their management
and production firms to create Fenton Kritzer Entertainment. This
new venture, which the two haved deemed "an alternative management/production"
company, will rep film and TV clients such as Burt Reynolds, Shannon
Elizabeth, Esai Morales, Travis Webster, Clifton Collins Jr., Charlotte
Ross, Diane Farr, Sasha Barrese and Louis Mandylor.
"We have been close friends for the past 10 years and the timing
was just right for us to merge," the partners said in a joint statement.
Kritzer launched Kritzer Entertainment in 1997 after stints at
Phyllis Carlyle Entertainment, 3 Arts and Immortal. Fenton opened
his own management venture in 1993 after working at the William Morris
Agency.
Darlene Sullivan
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October, 2003. Ron played in the
5th Annual Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Celebrity Golf
Classic on October 20, 2003. Photos on Wire
Image.
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October, 2003. A new title
has been added to Ron's filmography on the IMDB.
"MURDER ON THE HUDSON" is due to start filming
in December at Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.
Billed as a Crime / Drama / Thriller, "Murder on the
Hudson" will be directed by Randal Kleiser, and other cast
members will include Joanna Cassidy, Charles Durning, Willie Garson,
and Scott Glenn. Writing credits go to Michael Manasseri, and the
Production Company is Hoboken Pictures.
No word yet on what Ron's role will be in this film.
Here is a brief summary of the storyline, which was written by
Anonymous.
A female police officer is annoyed at being passed over for
promotion to detective. She badgers one of her precinct's detectives
to let her work with him on what she instinctively knows is a serial
killer case, someone who preys on single, hard-partying mothers who
neglect or abuse their kids.
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October, 2003. Update on "SOLOMAN'S
TURN."
According to the IMDB, production on this film will begin on 15
January through to 15 May, 2004, and filming will take place from
1 February 2004 - 15 March 2004, at Los Angeles, CA, and Paris, France.
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October, 2003. Ron's film, "TWO
SOLDIERS," in which he plays the role of Colonel James McKellogg,
was released at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
on September 20, 2003.
Described as a short war drama, "TWO SOLDIERS," which
is only 39 minutes long, won an award for Best Live Action Film over
15 minutes, and the Special Jury Prize for Best Actor went to Jonathan
Furr for the role of Willie Grier.
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2003. Stars Voice EverQuest Game
Sony Online Entertainment announced that several genre stars will
voice its upcoming Lords of EverQuest video game. Actors providing
voices for the next-generation real-time strategy game include Fairuza
Balk (The Craft), Claudia Black (Farscape), Kevin Conroy
(Batman: The Animated Series), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord
of The Rings), Hudson Leick (Xena: Warrior Princess), Kate
Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager), Ron Perlman (Hellboy),
Katey Sagal (Futurama), Dwight Schultz (Star Trek: The Next
Generation), Cree Summer (A Different World) and Michael
T. Weiss (The Pretender).
Inspired by the world of online gaming phenomenon EverQuest,
Lords of EverQuest draws gamers to the land of Antonica as they
control one of 15 lords and manage massive armies in their quest for
domination. Lords of EverQuest is expected to ship to North
American retail stores this fall.
http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-09/24/08.00.games
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August, 2003. Now that he's finished
filming "Hellboy," Ron is catching up with his golf. On
Monday, August 25th, he played at the 4th Annual Academy of Arts and
Sciences Foundation Celebrity Golf Tournament. Thumbnail photos of
Ron at this event can be found at the Wire
Image website.
Ron is also listed to play at the Battle
of The Hill Golf Tournament in Washington DC on September 20,
2003.
(This tournament was postponed due to the intervention of Hurricane
Isabel. A new date will be announced soon.)
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August, 2003. From Daily Variety
8/6/03 - "Hellboy Moved Up."
Revolution Studios has moved up the release of its comicbook actioner
"Hellboy," leaving its Memorial Day weekend berth for a less-competitive
April 2 slot. "Hellboy," directed by "Blade II's" Guillermo del Toro,
was originally set to open against DreamWorks' "Shrek 2."
The two weekends before Memorial Day have Universal's "Van Helsing,"
Warner Bros.' "Troy" and Paramount's "The World of Tomorrow" hitting
multiplexes, while the weekend after the holiday has Fox's "The Day
After Tomorrow."
Revolution is aiming to give "Hellboy" more of a window to cash
in among the pic's core sci-fi, horror and fantasy fans, as well as
build awareness among broader audiences. Picture stars Ron Perlman
as a demon conjured up by the Nazis during World War II who opts to
serve the cause of good rather than of evil.
New release date now pits it against DreamWorks' comedy "Envy,"
Paramount thriller "The Blackout Murders," Universal's "Two Brothers"
and Fox's children's film "Mission Without Permission." April has
already proved a winning month for Revolution, which scored last spring
with "Anger Management," originally a summer title.
"When you look at what's coming out around Memorial Day, there
are some very big pictures," Revolution partner Tom Sherak said. "We
figured we'd be much better off coming out earlier with a movie that
we think will be the next big comic book movie. Whenever you can be
the first, be the first."
[Thanks to Darlene Sullivan for passing on this information.]
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July, 2003. Ron voices villain in
new animated series, "Teen
Titans."
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May, 2003. Ron
Perlman in commercial for Stella Artois beer.
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April 21, 2003.
From Daily Variety.
Stars Enlisted for "Crime." Activision has
loaded the voice cast of its "TrueCrime: Streets of L.A." videogame
with big Hollywood guns, including Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman,
Michael Madsen, Ron Perlman, Michelle
Rodriguez, Russell Wong, CCH Pounder, James Hong and Mako.
"When we wrote the game's characters, we
wrote them after characters we'd seen in various movies," said executive
producer Chris Archer. "We wanted to get that Hong Kong cinema-meets-American
movies feel. We built the cast list based on that inspiration." Indeed,
for an original property - rather than a title licensed from an existing
film - the game may well have the largest "name" voice cast in recent
memory.
Wong is voicing the game's protagonist,
a disgraced cop trying to reclaim his reputation while tracking down
a group of criminals in Los Angeles. A player's outcome depends on
how well Wong's character succeeds in various scenes of what Activision
calls a hybird "driving/fighting/shooting" game. A notable feature
is a digitally recreated whopping 220 square miles of Los Angeles,
Santa Monica and nearby towns.
The game is scheduled for a fall 2003 release,
though Activision still hasn't picked a specific date.
Thanks to Darlene Sullivan for this information.
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April 2003. A new
film entitled "SOLOMAN'S TURN" has been added to Ron's filmography
on the IMDB. The film which is directed by Bryant Turner, has a budget
of $2 million, and Ron is cast in the title role of Soloman.
Writing credits go to Bryant and Neal Turner.
Filming locations are California and Paris, and a release date
has been given as May 14th 2004 in France.
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March 2003. Filming
on "Hellboy" has begun. Check out the latest news at Cinescape.com.
There is also an update on the storyline
of the movie at Filmjerk.com.
To keep up with the progress of this film check in regularly at
the Official "Hellboy"
website.
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February 2003. Ron
is back in Prague once again - this time for the filming of the "Hellboy"
movie.
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