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Alan Silvestri (Music by) was nominated for
an Oscar®, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award for his contributions
to the multiple Academy Award®-winning film Forrest Gump. He
was also nominated for four additional Grammy Awards—two for
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and two for Back to the Future—and
won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for Cast Away.
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During a time in history when the supernatural
still seemed as conceivable as the everyday, when storytellers supplied
imaginative reasons for the unexplained and when mythic creatures
still crept by night…there was a single figure fighting against
the dwindling mysteries hidden in the encroaching darkness: Van
Helsing.
Vivendi Universal Games’ Van Helsing Interactive Game
(Users to click here and access the paragraph on the interactive
Game – see below)
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The filmic world of Van Helsing provides a
treasure trove of exciting opportunities for the home gaming aficionado.
Vivendi Universal Games seized this opportunity by creating the
adrenaline-charged interactive game Van Helsing, based on filmmaker
Stephen Sommers’ elaborate and creature-filled world, for the
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox‘
video game system from Microsoft and Nintendo’s Game Boy®
Advance. The game launches May 7, 2004.
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Deep in the mountains of Carpathia lies the
mysterious and mythic land of Transylvania – a world where
evil is ever-present, where danger rises as the sun sets, and where
the monsters that inhabit man’s deepest nightmares take form.
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Alan Silvestri (Music by) was nominated for
an Oscar®, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award for his contributions
to the multiple Academy Award®-winning film Forrest Gump.
He was also nominated for four additional Grammy Awards—two
for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and two for Back to the Future—and
won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for Cast Away.
Most recently serving as the composer for Lara Croft Tom Raider:
The Cradle of Life, Identity, Maid in Manhattan
and Lilo & Stitch, Silvestri has nearly 100 feature films
to his credit; in addition to his previous collaboration with Stephen
Sommers on The Mummy Returns, these include Showtime,
Serendipity, The Mexican, What Lies Beneath, Reindeer
Games, Stuart Little, Contact, The Bodyguard,
Grumpy Old Men, The Bride, The Abyss, Predator
and Romancing the Stone, just to name a few.
Silvestri’s work on the small screen includes the series Starsky
and Hutch, CHiPs, Manimal, Amazing Stories
and Tales from the Crypt: All Through the House, for which
he won a Cable Ace Award for Best Original Score.
His upcoming projects include Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar
Express.
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During a time in history when the supernatural
still seemed as conceivable as the everyday, when storytellers supplied
imaginative reasons for the unexplained and when mythic creatures
still crept by night…there was a single figure fighting against
the dwindling mysteries hidden in the encroaching darkness: Van
Helsing.
Gabriel Van Helsing (HUGH JACKMAN) is a man cursed with a past he
cannot recall and driven by a mission he cannot deny. Charged by
a secret organisation to seek out and defeat evil the world over,
his efforts to rid the world of its nightmarish creatures have been
rewarded with the title that now follows him: murderer.
Van Helsing roams the globe an outcast, a fugitive, a loner, himself
hunted by those who don’t understand the true nature of his
calling.
When dispatched to the shadowy world of Transylvania, Van Helsing
finds a land still mired in its past…where legendary creatures
of darkness come to life…a place ruled over by the evil, seductive
and undefeatable vampire, Count Dracula (RICHARD ROXBURGH)…and
it is Dracula that Van Helsing has been sent to terminate.
Anna Valerious (KATE BECKINSALE) is one of the last of a powerful
royal family, now nearly annihilated by Dracula. A fearless hunter
in her own right, Anna is bent on avenging her ancestors and ending
an ancient curse by killing the vampire.
Joined by a common foe, Van Helsing and Anna set out to destroy
Dracula along with his empire of fear. But in challenging an enemy
who never dies, Van Helsing uncovers a secret he never imagined
and comes face-to-face with the unresolved mysteries of his own
enshrouded past.
STEPHEN SOMMERS, the innovative filmmaker behind the worldwide successes
of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, now takes audiences to an action-filled,
fantastical world, where the iconic monsters of cinema legend meet
the famed monster hunter out to vanquish evil in all its forms:
Van Helsing.
Joining Jackman and Beckinsale are an international cast of superlative
performers from the worlds of motion pictures and theater: Richard
Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!) as Count Dracula; DAVID WENHAM (The Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the King) as Carl, a friar entrusted
with ensuring Van Helsing’s safety; WILL KEMP (former Matthew
Bourne company leading dancer) as Velkan, Anna’s brother who
transforms under the full moon into The Wolf Man; KEVIN J. O’CONNOR
(The Mummy) as Igor, the treacherous assistant to both Dr. Frankenstein
and Count Dracula; SHULER HENSLEY (Tony-winning star of Broadway’s
Oklahoma!) as The Frankenstein Monster, Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s
misunderstood, persecuted creature; and, as Dracula’s three
alluring, bloodthirsty Brides, Spain’s ELENA ANAYA (Sex and
Lucia), Italy’s SILVIA COLLOCA (in her American feature film
debut) and JOSIE MARAN (the upcoming The Aviator).
Sommers gathers a group of top-notch filmmakers to help bring his
sweeping vision to the motion picture screen: longtime collaborator
and filmmaking partner of 15 years, producer/editor BOB DUCSAY (The
Mummy and its sequel); executive producer SAM MERCER (The Sixth
Sense); director of photography ALLEN DAVIAU, A.S.C. (five-time
Oscar® nominee, including for Bugsy and Avalon); production
designer ALLAN CAMERON (collaborator with Sommers on The Mummy and
its sequel); editor KELLY MATSUMOTO (The Mummy Returns); costume
designer GABRIELLA PESCUCCI (Oscar® winner for The Age of Innocence);
and composer ALAN SILVESTRI (Oscar®-nominated for Forrest Gump).
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 The
filmic world of Van Helsing provides a treasure trove of exciting
opportunities for the home gaming aficionado, with the promise of
enabling a player to become the intrepid monster hunter and confront
some of the most fearsome foes ever created—the legendary Dracula,
Frankenstein’s Monster and The Wolf Man. Vivendi Universal
Games seized this opportunity by creating the adrenaline-charged
interactive game Van Helsing, based on filmmaker Stephen Sommers’
elaborate and creature-filled world, for the PlayStation®2 computer
entertainment system, the Xbox‘ video game system from Microsoft
and Nintendo’s Game Boy® Advance. The game launches May
7, 2004.
Click here for game trailer
Developed by Saffire Studios, the third-person action game transports
players to a new world of fantastical reality set in 19th century
Transylvania, home to the legendary Dracula, Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s
Monster. As the renowned monster hunter Van Helsing, players must
hunt down and destroy the evil that inhabits these ancient lands
before darkness engulfs the world.
Working closely with the filmmakers, Vivendi Universal Games and
Saffire Studios set out to put players in the boots of the title
character, allowing them to experience interactively key moments
and battles from the film while extending Van Helsing’s mythology
through exclusive access to a back story entirely new to the interactive
game.
As players progress through Transylvania and the strongholds of
Castle Frankenstein and Castle Dracula, they’ll encounter untold
fiends and evil minions, including the legendary dark prince Dracula,
The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster and Igor, as well as a
host of original creatures created for the game—including stone
gargoyles, fell spirits and banshees. To help turn the tide of darkness,
players can wage attacks using an impressive arsenal of melee and
ranged weapons, including tojo blades, scimitars, pistols, a shotgun
and a hand-cranked Gatling gun. Additionally, players will be able
to utilize Van Helsing’s signature grappling hook to escape
impending doom, explore the game world and unleash devastating attacks.
Vivendi Universal Game’s Van Helsing is rated "Teen"
for "Blood and Gore, Violence" by the Entertainment Software
Rating Board.
Van Helsing is licensed by Universal Studios Consumer Products Group,
a unit of Universal Pictures, a division of Vivendi UNIVERSAL Entertainment
(VUE) (www.universalstudios.com), the U.S.-based film, television
and recreation entity of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications
company and is responsible for global licensing and retail strategies
as well as building brand recognition of VUE.
Headquartered in New York, Vivendi Universal Games (www.vugames.com)
is a global leader in multi-platform interactive entertainment.
A leading publisher of PC, console and online-based interactive
content, Vivendi Universal Games’ portfolio of development
studios includes Black Label Games, Blizzard Entertainment, Coktel,
Fox Interactive, Knowledge Adventure, NDA Productions, Sierra Entertainment
and Universal Interactive. Through its Partner Publishing Group,
Vivendi Universal Games also co-publishes and/or distributes interactive
products for a number of strategic partners, including Crave Entertainment,
Interplay, Majesco, Mythic Entertainment and Simon & Schuster,
among others.
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Deep in the mountains of Carpathia lies the
mysterious and mythic land of Transylvania – a world where
evil is ever-present, where danger rises as the sun sets, and where
the monsters that inhabit man’s deepest nightmares take form.
Innovative filmmaker Stephen Sommers – who so imaginatively
re-envisioned Universal’s classic Mummy character in the worldwide
blockbusters The Mummy and The Mummy Returns –
now widens his cinematic scope and multiplies his creative inspiration
by breathing new life into the most time-honored pantheon of classic
Universal monsters and setting them in a stunning new world of fantastical
reality. Sommer’s all-encompassing vision for a world as tangible,
real and visceral as any caught in the strangle hold of inescapable
evil blends the recognizable and the unimaginable into a vivid,
epic backdrop for his tale of ultimate evil against a lone force
of good: Van Helsing.
Audiences will be drawn into a visionary, supernatural but seemingly
all-too-real world of Sommers’ singular creation – set
in 19th Century London, Rome, Paris and Transylvania – where
mankind is in constant danger from incarnate evil in a multitude
of forms: monsters that outlive generations, defying repeated attacks
from the doomed brave souls that challenge then in their never-ending
war upon the human race. In Sommers’ hands, Dracula, Frankenstein’s
Monster, the Wolf Man and others are effectively reborn as dynamic
heirs to the traditions handed down by the filmmakers of the classic
Universal monster pictures. Honoring their legacy while propelling
them into the next generation of cinema, Sommers turns what was
once classic into cutting edge.
Into this world, brought to life and played out on massive sets
and sweeping locations, Sommers brings Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman),
the legendary monster hunter born in the pages of Bram Stoker’s
Dracula. In his ongoing battle to rid the world of its fiendish
creatures, Van Helsing, on order of a secret society, travels to
Transylvania to bring down the lethally seductive, enigmatically
powerful Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) and joins forces with
the fearless Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), out to rid her family
of a generations-old curse by defeating the vampire. Also populating
Sommers dense canvas are: Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley as Dr.
Frankenstein’s misunderstood monster; former Matthew Bourne
company leading dancer Will Kemp as Velkan, Anna’s stalwart
brother who transforms under the full moon into the Wolf Man; Kevin
J. O’Connor as Dr. Frankenstein’s loyal yet treacherous
assistant, Igor; David Wenham as Carl, a friar entrusted with ensuring
Van Helsing’s safe return; and Elena Anaya, Silvia Colloca
and Josie Maran as Dracula’s three bloodthirsty brides who
will stop at nothing to help their master in his plan to subvert
human civilization and rule over a world of havoc, fear and darkness.
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1 Transylvania 1887
2 Burn it down!
3 Werewolf Trap
4 Journey to Transylvania
5 Attacking Brides
6 Dracula’s Nursery
7 Useless Crucifix
8 Transylvanian Horses
9 All Hallow’s Eve Ball
10 Who are they to judge?
11 Final Battle
12 Reunited
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Van Helsing Hugh Jackman
Anna Valerious Kate Beckinsale
Count Dracula Richard Roxburgh
Carl David Wenham
Velkan Will Kemp
Igor Kevin J. O’Connor
Frankenstein’s Monster Shuler Hensley
Aleera Elena Anaya
Verona Silvia Colloca
Marishka Josie Maran
Stephen Sommers Director / Writer / Producer
Allen Daviau, A.S.C. Director of Photography
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