Stars: Tobias Jelinek, Danielle Chuchran, Keely Aloña, Kimberly Leemans, Eric Edwards, Simon Sorrells, Pelé Kizy, Brionne Davis, Derrick L. McMillon, Kristin Minter, Harry Shum Jr., Jen Oda | Written by Michael Hayes, Brian Lubocki | Directed by Tom Woodruff Jr.
Vine (Tobias Jelinek), a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl (Keely Aloña), the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
Fire City is… well, it’s hard to describe. It’s a mash of fantasy and horror so much to the point that I wouldn’t really be comfortable describing it as either. Story-wise, Fire City successfully builds its own little world and fills it with demons in a very short amount of time. As a viewer, I found it...
Vine (Tobias Jelinek), a disillusioned demon, secretly lives with others of his kind in the world of humans sustained by their misery. Forced into a choice to save his brethren or an innocent human girl (Keely Aloña), the delicate balance between human and demon kind is threatened, which may result in war.
Fire City is… well, it’s hard to describe. It’s a mash of fantasy and horror so much to the point that I wouldn’t really be comfortable describing it as either. Story-wise, Fire City successfully builds its own little world and fills it with demons in a very short amount of time. As a viewer, I found it...
- 12/15/2015
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
The end of days is nigh in the new trailer for Fire City: End of Days, directed by Tom Woodruff Jr. Also: new programming announcements from the 2015 Mile High Horror Film Festival, release details for Aquarius Season 1 and zombie web comic When It's Over.
Fire City: End of Days: Press Release: "Burbank, CA - Academy Award Winning Creature and Character Effects Designer Tom Woodruff Jr. makes his highly-anticipated directorial debut with Fire City: End of Days, hitting DVD and Digital October 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Set in a world where demons live among us, this exhilarating vitrine of effects and action sees a hard-boiled demon named Vine confronted with the ultimate choice between the salvation of his own kind and the life of an innocent human girl. Tobias Jelinek (Hocus Pocus), Danielle Chuchran (Saga: Curse of the Shadow), Glee’s Harry Shum Jr, and Kristin Minter (TVs E.R) star.
Fire City: End of Days: Press Release: "Burbank, CA - Academy Award Winning Creature and Character Effects Designer Tom Woodruff Jr. makes his highly-anticipated directorial debut with Fire City: End of Days, hitting DVD and Digital October 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Set in a world where demons live among us, this exhilarating vitrine of effects and action sees a hard-boiled demon named Vine confronted with the ultimate choice between the salvation of his own kind and the life of an innocent human girl. Tobias Jelinek (Hocus Pocus), Danielle Chuchran (Saga: Curse of the Shadow), Glee’s Harry Shum Jr, and Kristin Minter (TVs E.R) star.
- 9/2/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
With technology rapidly advancing in the world of filmmaking to the point where almost every theatrical genre film or big-budget blockbuster heavily relies on the use of CGI, it’s nice to see guys like Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics still so committed to the artistry and necessity of practical effects in moviemaking.
Both icons in the world of special effects, Woodruff Jr. and Gillis have collectively worked on a vast array of hugely successful and influential films throughout their careers, including The Terminator, Aliens, Cocoon, Predator, The Monster Squad, Pumpkinhead, Demolition Man, Tremors, Alien 3, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man, Jumanji, Spider-Man, Avp: Alien vs. Predator, and X-Men: First Class.
One of the recent projects the duo were a part of was Universal’s 2011 premake of The Thing, in which they were asked to create stunning practical creature effects to be used throughout production. Unfortunately, for both Woodruff Jr.
Both icons in the world of special effects, Woodruff Jr. and Gillis have collectively worked on a vast array of hugely successful and influential films throughout their careers, including The Terminator, Aliens, Cocoon, Predator, The Monster Squad, Pumpkinhead, Demolition Man, Tremors, Alien 3, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man, Jumanji, Spider-Man, Avp: Alien vs. Predator, and X-Men: First Class.
One of the recent projects the duo were a part of was Universal’s 2011 premake of The Thing, in which they were asked to create stunning practical creature effects to be used throughout production. Unfortunately, for both Woodruff Jr.
- 7/23/2014
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The trailer for the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning special effects designer Tom Woodruff, Jr., a supernatural thriller called Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs, is finally here and the practical effects are nothing short of badass! Dig it!
The film centers around a fragile balance that exists between humankind and the demons who secretly live among them and the crisis for all when this balance is broken. Mary-Margaret Humes, Harry Shum Jr., Danielle Chuchran, Kristin Minter, Matt Winston, Eric Edwards, Tobias Jelinek, and Robert Peters star.
Shum plays an abusive alcoholic boyfriend who suddenly transforms into a caring and loving person, along with the rest of the humans in his seedy tenement building. Dependent on human misery for survival, the demons in the building begin to starve.
Writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign for the film in August 2013 and will go into production this month.
The film centers around a fragile balance that exists between humankind and the demons who secretly live among them and the crisis for all when this balance is broken. Mary-Margaret Humes, Harry Shum Jr., Danielle Chuchran, Kristin Minter, Matt Winston, Eric Edwards, Tobias Jelinek, and Robert Peters star.
Shum plays an abusive alcoholic boyfriend who suddenly transforms into a caring and loving person, along with the rest of the humans in his seedy tenement building. Dependent on human misery for survival, the demons in the building begin to starve.
Writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign for the film in August 2013 and will go into production this month.
- 5/2/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
We were lucky enough to get to play with demons on the set of Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs earlier this month while the complex “horror noir,” which is the brainchild of writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, was shooting.
It’s directed by F/X master Tom Woodruff, Jr., and stars Tobias Jelinek as Vine the Demon, who must square off with an even eviler Demoness, Cornelia (played by Danielle "Dani" Chuchran).
We had a chance to talk with the actors plus the director and his two right-hand practical effects guys (his son, David Woodruff, and Academy Award winner Dave Elsey), but in this installment you'll hear from the originators of Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs, Lubocki and Hayes.
Dread Central: So… what’s the Fire City story in this film? It's based on your body of shorts and other works set in this world, correct?
Brian Lubocki...
It’s directed by F/X master Tom Woodruff, Jr., and stars Tobias Jelinek as Vine the Demon, who must square off with an even eviler Demoness, Cornelia (played by Danielle "Dani" Chuchran).
We had a chance to talk with the actors plus the director and his two right-hand practical effects guys (his son, David Woodruff, and Academy Award winner Dave Elsey), but in this installment you'll hear from the originators of Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs, Lubocki and Hayes.
Dread Central: So… what’s the Fire City story in this film? It's based on your body of shorts and other works set in this world, correct?
Brian Lubocki...
- 4/14/2014
- by Staci Layne Wilson
- DreadCentral.com
"Glee's" Harry Shum, Jr., has signed on to play the role of "Frank" in the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning special effects designer Tom Woodruff, Jr., a supernatural thriller called Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
The film centers around a fragile balance that exists between humankind and the demons who secretly live among them and the crisis for all when this balance is broken.
Shum plays an abusive alcoholic boyfriend who suddenly transforms into a caring and loving person, along with the rest of the humans in his seedy tenement building. Dependent on human misery for survival, the demons in the building begin to starve.
Writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign for the film in August 2013 and will go into production this month. Shum is repped by Innovative.
For more visit the official Fire City website, "like" Fire City on Facebook, and follow...
The film centers around a fragile balance that exists between humankind and the demons who secretly live among them and the crisis for all when this balance is broken.
Shum plays an abusive alcoholic boyfriend who suddenly transforms into a caring and loving person, along with the rest of the humans in his seedy tenement building. Dependent on human misery for survival, the demons in the building begin to starve.
Writer-producers Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign for the film in August 2013 and will go into production this month. Shum is repped by Innovative.
For more visit the official Fire City website, "like" Fire City on Facebook, and follow...
- 2/25/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Academy Award-Winning Special Effects Designer, Tom Woodruff, Jr., whose company, Amalgamated Dynamics, is known for such films as Spider-Man, X-Men: First Class and Alien Vs. Predator, cast breakout unknown Tobias Jelinek in the lead role for Woodruff’s upcoming directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs. In a world where demons live secretly among us, Jelinek plays Atum Vine, a winged demon who develops something unheard of in the demon world: compassion. Vine must make the ultimate choice, when the life of a young human girl is in jeopardy and all of Demonkind hangs in the balance. Also joining the cast is longtime character actor and co-founder of the Stan Winston School of Character Arts, Matt Winston, whose long list of credits includes Zodiac, Fight Club and Little Miss Sunshine. Writer-producers, Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, came off a successful Kickstarter campaign in August and are shooting in Los...
- 1/9/2014
- by FEARnet Staff
- FEARnet
Oscar-winning effects wizard Tom Woodruff, Jr. and his team Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. are celebrated among the film industry and movie fans alike for their amazing creations for The Terminator, Aliens, Tremors, Starship Troopers, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, to name only a few. Now Woodruff is making his feature directing debut with the “demon noir” fantasy thriller Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs – the first in a proposed four-film franchise about a ferocious demon who must battle his own kind to save a young girl. Created by writing/producing team Brian Lubocki & Michael Hayes, Fire City is being described as "Harry Potter for an adult audience," and the planned feature films are just one aspect of an expanded fantasy world that includes short fiction, comics, and Tarot cards. Funding for Fire City is still ongoing, and is getting a boost from a Kickstarter campaign which you can learn more about at their official site.
- 8/9/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
The time has come, kids! King of Miseries, Tom Woodruff's prequel to his upcoming Fire City film, is here right now for your perusal. Check it out in its entirety, and look for more on the Fire City series soon!
King of Miseries, directed by Woodruff, is a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
King of Miseries stars John Robinson, Stacy Haiduk, and Denesa Chan. Writing-producing team Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, under their banner Okay By Me Productions, created a new story world called Fire City, where demons live in a fragile balance among us, but humans can’t see them for what they are. With a unique mythology, a world origin never seen before, a host of creatures, characters, and storylines, Lubocki and Hayes plan to slowly roll out their world to an avid...
King of Miseries, directed by Woodruff, is a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
King of Miseries stars John Robinson, Stacy Haiduk, and Denesa Chan. Writing-producing team Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, under their banner Okay By Me Productions, created a new story world called Fire City, where demons live in a fragile balance among us, but humans can’t see them for what they are. With a unique mythology, a world origin never seen before, a host of creatures, characters, and storylines, Lubocki and Hayes plan to slowly roll out their world to an avid...
- 7/3/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
In what's probably one of the coolest announcements we've ever made, Dread Central is happy to announce that we will be premiering King of Miseries, Tom Woodruff's prequel to his upcoming Fire City film, right here on Wednesday, July 3rd!
Don't want to wait? Get a taste of what's to come in the trailer below.
King of Miseries, directed by Woodruff, is a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
King of Miseries stars John Robinson, Stacy Haiduk, and Denesa Chan. Writing-producing team Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, under their banner Okay By Me Productions, created a new story world called Fire City, where demons live in a fragile balance among us, but humans can’t see them for what they are. With a unique mythology, a world origin never seen before, a host of creatures, characters,...
Don't want to wait? Get a taste of what's to come in the trailer below.
King of Miseries, directed by Woodruff, is a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
King of Miseries stars John Robinson, Stacy Haiduk, and Denesa Chan. Writing-producing team Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, under their banner Okay By Me Productions, created a new story world called Fire City, where demons live in a fragile balance among us, but humans can’t see them for what they are. With a unique mythology, a world origin never seen before, a host of creatures, characters,...
- 6/27/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
And the badassery continues! Another teaser has come our way for the new project from special effects legend and Academy Award-winning creature designer Tom Woodruff, Jr., entitled Fire City: King of Miseries. Dig it!
The short film Fire City: King of Miseries is directed by Woodruff as a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
Woodruff brings 20-plus years of experience and dozens of big-budget studio projects under his belt as well as his creature effects house, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. with partner Alec Gillis. King of Miseries stars John Robinson, Stacy Haiduk, and Denesa Chan. Writing-producing team Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, under their banner Okay By Me Productions, created a new story world called Fire City, where demons live in a fragile balance among us, but humans can’t see them for what they are. With a unique mythology,...
The short film Fire City: King of Miseries is directed by Woodruff as a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
Woodruff brings 20-plus years of experience and dozens of big-budget studio projects under his belt as well as his creature effects house, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. with partner Alec Gillis. King of Miseries stars John Robinson, Stacy Haiduk, and Denesa Chan. Writing-producing team Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes, under their banner Okay By Me Productions, created a new story world called Fire City, where demons live in a fragile balance among us, but humans can’t see them for what they are. With a unique mythology,...
- 6/17/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You want badass? You've Got badass. Special effects legend and Academy Award-winning creature designer Tom Woodruff, Jr., is getting ready to slide into the director's chair for a project you're hearing about here for the very first time!
Below you'll find the first artwork and a sneak peek at the short film King of Miseries directed by Woodruff as a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
Woodruff brings 20-plus years of experience and dozens of big-budget studio projects under his belt as well as his creature effects house, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. with partner Alec Gillis. Adi’s movies include X-Men: First Class, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Alien 3, Alien vs. Predator, and most recently Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
After years working under Stan Winston, the godfather of special effects, known for everything from Aliens to Terminator to Avatar,...
Below you'll find the first artwork and a sneak peek at the short film King of Miseries directed by Woodruff as a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
Woodruff brings 20-plus years of experience and dozens of big-budget studio projects under his belt as well as his creature effects house, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. with partner Alec Gillis. Adi’s movies include X-Men: First Class, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Alien 3, Alien vs. Predator, and most recently Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
After years working under Stan Winston, the godfather of special effects, known for everything from Aliens to Terminator to Avatar,...
- 6/6/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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