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Hellboy [2004]
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2003
Running Times: 121 mins 47 sec
Format: colour
Ratio: 1.37:1 [negative ratio]
1.85:1 [intended ratio]
Sound: Dolby Digital
SDDS DTS
SELECTED CREDITS
[full
credits]
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Revolution Studios Presents a Lawrence Gordon
/ Lloyd Levin Production in association with Dark Horse Entertainment
Executive Producer: Patrick Palmer
Co-Executive Producer: Mike Mignola
Producers: Lawrence Gordon, Mike Richardson, Lloyd Levin
SCRIPT
Script: Guillermo del Toro
Screen Story: Guillermo del Toro, Peter Briggs
Comic: Mike Mignola
DIRECTION
Director: Guillermo del Toro
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Guillermo Navarro
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Peter Amundson
MUSIC
Music: Marco Beltrami
Songs: Edward Heyman, John Green [Easy Come, Easy Go]; Tom Waits [Heart
Attack and Vine]; Nick Cave, Thomas Wydler, Mick Harvey [Red Right Hand];
James Grundler [Breathe In]; Al Green, Al Jackson Jr, Willie Mitchell
[Let’s Stay Together]; Ross Parker, Hugh Charles [We’ll
Meet Again]
Songs Performed By: Johnny Crawford [Easy Come, Easy Go]; Tom Waits
[Heart Attack and Vine]; Pete Yorn [Red Right Hand]; Paloalto [Breathe
In]; Al Green [Let’s Stay Together]; Vera Lynn [We’ll Meet
Again]
SOUND
Sound Designer: Steve Boeddeker
Supervising Sound Mixers: Gary A. Rizzo, Michael Semanick
Sound Mixer: Mark Holding
Additional Sound Mixer: Kent Sparling
Boom Operator: Peter Eusebe
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Supervising Make Up / Hair: Jeanette Freeman
Key Make Up: Deborah Jarvis
Make Up / Hair: Kay Bilk, Beverley Binda, Gabriela Polakova, Georgina
Abanto
Costume Designer: Wendy Partridge
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Hellboy Make Up Consultant: Rick Baker
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisors: Nick Allder, David Beavis
Special Effects Floor Supervisors: Kevin Draycott, Jiri Vater
Special Effects Workshop Supervisor: Jem Lovett
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Edward Irastorza
Visual Effects: Black Box Digital; Café FX; Cinovation; DDT Efectos
Especiales; Fantasy II Film Effects; HATCH; HimAnI Productions; The
Orphanage; The Pit Crew; Spectral Motion; Tippett Studio
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Stephen Scott
Supervising Art Director: Simon Lamont
Art Directors: James Hambidge, Peter Francis, Marco Bittner Rosser
Assistant Art Directors: Stuart Kearns, Jan Zazvorka
Set Decorator: Hilton Rosemarin
LOCATIONS
Locations: Prague, Czech Republic
Location Managers: Ilt Jones, Jaroslav Vaculik
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Monty Simons
Fight Choreography: Jeff Ward, Thomas Elliot, Ladislav Beran, Guillermo
del Toro
CASTING
Casting: Jeremy Zimmermann
CAST
Ron Perlman [Hellboy]
John Hurt [Professor Bruttenholm]
Selma Blair [Liz Sherman]
Rupert Evans [John Myers]
Karel Roden [Grigori]
Jeffrey Tambor [Tom Manning]
Doug Jones [Abe Sapien]
Brian Steele [Sammael]
Ladislav Beran [Kroenen]
Bridget Hodson [Ilsa]
John William Johnson [Agent Clay]
Kevin Trainor [young Broom]
Brian Caspe [Agent Lime]
James Babson [Agent Moss ]
Stephen Fisher [Agent Quarry]
Garth Cooper [Agent Stone]
Angus MacInnes [Sergeant Whitman]
Jim Howick [Corporal Matlin]
Mark Taylor [truck driver]
Daniel Aarsman, Bettina Ask, Alvaro Navarro, Emilio Navarro [kids]
Rory Copus [kid on rooftop]
Tara Hugo [Doctor Jenkins]
Richard Haas [2nd doctor]
Andrea Miltner [Doctor Marsh]
Jo Eastwood [Down’s patient]
Charles Grisham, Jan Holicek [museum guards]
Jeremy Zimmerman [lobby guard]
Monty Simons [orderly]
Pavel Cajzl [Sherpa guide]
Andrea Stuart [girl with kittens]
William Hoyland [Von Krupt]
Millie Wilkie [young Liz]
Bob Sherman [television host]
Ellen Savaria [blonde television reporter]
Petr Sekanina, Ales Kosnar [German scientists]
Justin Svoboda [young guy]
Winter Ave Zoli [girlfriend]
Santiago Segura, Albert May [train drivers]
SUMMARY
As World War II comes to
a close, the increasingly desperate Nazis resort to black
magic as a last ditch effort to repel the advancing
allied forces. They manage to conjure up a demon,
Hellboy, who grows to maturity and joins with the Allies
serving the forces of good rather than evil.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributors: Columbia Tristar Films (UK)
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Columbia Pictures
DVD Distributors: Columbia/Tristar [01317]
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: K-11
Germany
Rating: 12
Singapore
Rating: PG
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: 12A [uncut]
USA
Rating: PG-13
AWARDS
2004
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Movie - Drama/Action Adventure - nominated
TIMELINE
2003
March
4: USA - filming begins
August
Day Unknown: USA - filming ends
December
8: UK - video trailer rated PG by the BBFC [uncut, for video release]
18: UK - trailer rated PG by the BBFC [uncut, for theatrical release]
2004
February
16: UK - video trailer rated PG by the BBFC [uncut, for video release]
March
22: UK - trailer rated PG by the BBFC [uncut, for theatrical release]
20: USA – theatrical premiere in Los Angeles, California
23: UK - rated 12A by the BBFC [uncut, for theatrical release]
April
2: Canada, USA – theatrical release
8: Singapore, Taiwan – theatrical release
21: Philippines – theatrical release
22: Thailand – theatrical release
28: UK - trailer rated PG by the BBFC [uncut, for theatrical release]
May
14: India – theatrical release
June
4: Finland – shown at the Night Visions Film Festival
11: Finland – theatrical release
17: Israel – theatrical release
26: UK - trailer rated PG by the BBFC [uncut, for theatrical release]
July
23: Denmark, Mexico – theatrical release
27: USA - DVD release [Columbia/Tristar [01317]]
30: Brazil, Norway – theatrical release
August
5: Argentina, Australia – theatrical release
11: France – theatrical release
13: Iceland, South Korea – theatrical release
18: Sweden – theatrical release
20: Estonia – theatrical release
25: Switzerland [French speaking region], United Arab Emirates –
theatrical release
28: UK - shown at Frightfest, London
September
3: UK - theatrical release
9: Czech Republic – theatrical release
16: Germany, Switzerland [German speaking region] – theatrical
release
17: Austria – theatrical release
24: Chile, Greece – theatrical release
October
1: Spain, Switzerland [Italian speaking region] – theatrical release
14: Netherlands – theatrical release
20: Belgium – theatrical release
22: Italy – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
Give Evil Hell
Here to protect
Sent to destroy
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Super Sapiens – Malaysian title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
The B.P.R.D. Declassified [2004]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Comixene vol.74 [June 2004] pp.90-92, 93-94, 127 [Germany]
review [Hellboy - Comic-horror at it's best by Martin Jurgeit]
Computer Games vol.161 [April 2004] p.84 [USA]
illustrated article [A Cliffs Notes Guide to Hellboy by Eric Moro]
Entertainment Weekly vol.759 [9 April 2004] pp.56,
57 [USA]
review [Devil May Care [B] by Owen Gleiberman]
Premiere vol.17 no.7 [April 2004] pp.90-94 [USA]
article [Hell's Angel by Tim Swanson]
Rolling Stone vol.947[29 April 2004] p.85 [USA]
review [Hellboy: A little bit of comic-book heaven [***] by Peter Travers]
NEWSPAPERS
The Washington Post vol.127 no.119 [2 April 2004]
pp.43-44; C1+C4 [USA]
review [Hellboy - A Heck of a Good Time by Richard Harington]; review
[The Devil Gets His Due: Perlman's Hot as Hellboy by Ann Hornaday]
KEYWORDS
alternate dimensions, comic into films, demons, disfigurement, grenades,
human experiments, impalement, museums, nazis, the occult, the paranormal,
pyrokinesis, resurrection, superheroes, swords, throat slitting, visions,
world war ii
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