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Constantin is pushing ahead with its adaptations of Cassandra Clare’s best-selling Mortal Instruments franchise and plans to restart production on the second film in the series, The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes, next year.The executive producer, Martin Moskowicz, says that City of Bones' slight miss at the box-office can be explained by "[the] marketing campaign that was too narrowly focused on teenage fans, to the detriment of Clare’s 20- and 30-something readers"
"The fan response, from the blogosphere and the thousands of mails we have received, has encouraged us to keep going,” Moszkowicz told The Hollywood Reporter. “It's been overwhelmingly positive, in contrast to some other YA titles.”Hopefully we'll get to see more set pictures in Toronto next year!
Jonathan Rhys Meyers on the TMI set with tiny!baby Jace and the falcon. The man standing behind them is the falcon trainer. (Still clearing out my camera — many set pictures!)
Constantin Film has a long tradition of adapting books to the big screen. Pushing back the start of production of CITY OF ASHES was a decision we did not take lightly. But after speaking with all of our partners on the creative and distribution side, it was clear that it will be beneficial to have more time to reposition the film in the current market place. THEIsn't Martin Moskowicz and the whole team the best? I guess we'll just have to wait a bit longer, but I'm sure a better movie will be worth the wait.
MORTAL INSTRUMENTS series has an incredibly loyal and ardent fan base and is a bestselling book series. While taking Cassandra Claire’s vision to the screen we want to make sure to draw on the full potential of the franchise.
I have the utmost respect for the #tmi fandom. we want to make CoA right. we will make good use of the time.Hopefully we will get another Mortal Instruments movie, so keep on tweeting #WeNeedCityOfAshes
— Martin Moszkowicz (@mmoszkowicz) September 11, 2013
#WeNeedCityOfAshes it is great how you make yourselfs heard.
— Martin Moszkowicz (@mmoszkowicz) September 11, 2013
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The film’s physical creatures were built by make-up effects veteran Paul Jones (Silent Hill, Defiance), with designs contributed by concept artist Martin Mercer. Unlike other genre projects, where the monsters have a much more obvious presence, the challenge on this film was to create a range of supernatural characters that may not be as obvious at first. “There’s a great scene where Clary goes to Magnus Bane’s house [where there’s] a party,” explains Jones, “and I would say about 70 percent of the guests are human and the other 30 percent are human-ish, so they all have something slightly off about them.
“One guy has a golden face with African tribal scars on his face, but his face is a luminescent gold, while another girl has cat eyes that you don’t really notice at first until she opens her eyes wide at the camera, so in terms of our prosthetics, everything was scaled right down to be very subtle. We found people that were interesting already and basically enhanced their natural features, rather than taking somebody average or attractive and turning them into a monster.”
Jones worked directly with Mercer to create the creatures. “Martin is very fast,” Jones notes, “so I was able to run the shop but not have to sit down at my laptop and design for a day. Martin would come to me and I would act like an art director and say, ‘OK, that wrinkle is great—make it a bit longer and bring the cheekbones out more, darken down this part of the rune, make the teeth a little longer.’
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“Four or five hours later the design would be done and get sent off to production designer François Séguin, and from a practical point of view, I wouldn’t have any problem building anything in the design. When you are given a design by somebody else, it can be tricky sometimes, because they don’t understand what we do or the limitations we have from a prosthetic point of view. Because I understood the characters in this world and where they lived, we were able to simply carry on with what we were doing.”
Despite the soft U.S. start, Moszkowicz said the reaction from the book's fan base has been "very positive." And he said that Constantin is proceeding with plans to begin shooting a sequel, Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes, in Toronto this fall.Also, keep in mind, there will be a international roll-out for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Moszkowicz said it was still too early to make a prognosis forMortal Instrument's global box office revenue. But Constantin has proven before that it can successfully use international markets to recoup a shortfall in the U.S. Paul WS Anderson's The Three Musketeers (2011), a Constantin production, earned a disappointing $20 million in its U.S. release through Summit Entertainment, but went on to gross some $150 million worldwide.Martin Moskowicz also states:
Martin Moszkowicz, head of film and TV at Constantin and an executive producer on Mortal Instruments, blamed the weak early U.S. figures on "a strongly competitive environment," which included a pair of similarly-skewing genre pics in Lionsgate's horror movie You're Next and Edgar Wright's sci-fi action-comedy The World's End. He also cited strong holdovers The Butler and We're the Millers. Sony's Screen Gems picked up the film for the U.S.
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! Maybe, we will get to see the famous script reading with Jamie Campbell Bower and Lily Collins. What do you hope is on the special features?
It's been confirmed, the wonderful Sigourney Weaver is on board to star in Harald Zwart's sequel to The Mortal Instruments. This one's called The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes.The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes will start filming in Toronto this September 23.
While there had been rumours recentlyof Miss Weaver's involvement, Zwart confirmed mid interview with entertainment.ie yesterday that it is indeed a goer. "Yes Sigourney is on board, now you can break the story!".
"I devoured the whole series and loved it,” exclaimed Robert Tonner, company CEO and resident doll artist and sculptor. “As soon as I heard about the movie, I knew immediately it was for us. It’s got all the good stuff: romance, action, demons, vampires, werewolves. Just ripe for the picking!”
"He handed me music scribbles and said, 'This is the theme,' and it is the beautiful Clary's Theme we hear in the film," explains Zwart.Order the album on:
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