The Gate 3D - H R Giger returns!

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The classic 1987 children's fantasy, THE GATE, reopens after twenty years and this time in 3D format.

On its opening weekend, in August 1987, THE GATE outperformed ISHTAR (starring box-office giants Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty), and earned North American revenues approximately ten times its production budget. THE GATE became the most profitable Canadian movie of 1988, and as such, was awarded the Golden Reel for the highest grossing movie of the year at the 1988 Canadian Academy Awards. THE GATE was not only a cult hit that audiences (and buyers) remember two decades later, but it also generated healthy international revenues.

In keeping with the original, THE GATE 3D will be a PG-13 children’s fantasy that will provide the emotional rollercoaster ride of a horror film, without the blood and guts, and without resorting to the tool shed. No sledgehammers or chainsaws will be used in this movie!

Based on Michael Nankin's original script, THE GATE 3D is written by Kerric Macdonald. While remaining faithful to the original story and characters that proved so successful in the US and worldwide, both the script and visual effects have been updated, bringing them into line with twenty-first century sensibilities.

The creatures were designed by three-time Academy Award winning FX guru Randall William Cook (The LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, KING KONG), and new creature design will be done by HR Giger (ALIEN, SPECIES)!

Alex Winter will direct.

Winter directed the psychological thriller FEVER, which the New York Times' A.O. Scott praised as "pure Hitchcockian panic" and FREAKED, one of Entertainment Weekly’s "top ten greatest comedies of the nineties." Winter also produced and directed Cartoon Network’s live-action movie event, BEN 10: RACE AGAINST TIME, which garnered the highest ratings in Cartoon Network history. Winter is now in production on the sequel, BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE.

Charlotte Huggins, the most prolific producer of 3-D motion pictures in the world, will act as Executive Producer. Charlotte’s latest movie, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH has so far earned over $220 million in gross box office and is still in limited release after five months.

THE GATE 3D is aimed at kids raised on THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy; it is a children’s fantasy with soul, humor, and excitement, with the underlying tension of great danger, like THE GOONIES and GREMLINS, where the kids almost get bitten, almost get swallowed by the Gate, and almost get killed by the Demon Lord, but ultimately escape with the help of ingenuity, imagination, innocence, and teamwork.

THE GATE 3D is a fun and exciting film for kids (and their families) about kids ... and some cheeky and dangerous monsters.