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Frank Darabont

Frank Darabont

Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He was born in France by Hungarian parents who fled Budapest during the 1956 uprising, but the family moved to Los Angeles while he was still an infant. He has directed the films The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, all based on stories by Stephen King. In 2010 he developed and executive produced the first season of the AMC network television series The Walking Dead.

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King on Screen (2023)

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world. ...

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Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead (2018)

In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting ...

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Walking the Mile (2014)

Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel. ...

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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster (2013)

A documentary on legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan. ...

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Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger (2012)

Retrospective on The Nightmare On Elm Street Series. ...

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Nightmare Factory (2011)

The story of how one Pittsburgh boy's fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents' chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. ...

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Clint Eastwood's West (2011)

An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, John Lee Hancock and many more. ...

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The United Monster Talent Agency (2010)

A short comedy spoof about Universal Monsters and their everyday unconventional work done at their very own talent agency for their movies. ...

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The Making of The Walking Dead (2010)

The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead. ...

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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)

For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films. ...

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Tales from the Script (2009)

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penet ...

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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX (2008)

This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dante and many others with a strong focus on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB Make-Up EFX. ...

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When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' (2008)

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film. ...

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Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist (2008)

This is a short featurette that features famed poster artist Struzan, made legendary for his beautiful Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Stephen King adaptation posters. Thomas Jane's character became modeled after Struzan, which might be easily identifiable a ...

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The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist (2008)

This 16-minute featurette focuses on CafeFX, the team behind the CG work in The Mist (as well as Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth). They discuss a wide array of points, from matching models with the KNB creature crew to documentaries that inspired the designs. I ...

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Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist' (2008)

Whenever a solid "brain trust" around creature assembly exists, then the process behind crafting these monsters must've been interesting. This 13-minute featurette captures the process of crafting the concepts for the monsters, from the models assembled fo ...

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The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35 (2008)

Scene 35 can best be described as the point in which the muck hits the fan. It's a scene with unbridled chaos involving CG effects, creature models, stunts, coordination, dramatic character portrayals ... just about anything that could possibly go wrong in ...

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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)

The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage. ...

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Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' (2006)

Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense project from start to finish. It turns out that this one film may actually be a larger task to complete th ...

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King Kong (2005)

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady. ...

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Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy (2004)

A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert Hughes, Joe Carnahan, Richard Linklater, Antoine Fuqua and Frank Darabont are interviewed about the film. ...

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Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes (2003)

A documentary on the Looney Tunes. Including interviews from people who worked on it, and their family. ...

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Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature (2001)

Film critic and presenter Mark Kermode explores the fascination and praise audiences, fans and critics have behind the classic The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and how its importance grew higher over the years despite being an overlooked film when it was re ...

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Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile (2000)

Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send th ...

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Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999)

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King. ...

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Vampires (1998)

The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight. ...

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Stephen King's World of Horror (1989)

This horror documentary is not the same as the 1986 TV special Stephen King's World of Horror nor the 1988 VHS release of the same name, which runs 45 minutes, was distributed by Front Row Entertainment and is about King himself. Instead, This Is Horror (c ...

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Stephen King's World of Horror (1986)

A documentary about the works of novelist Stephen King and his influence on popular culture and his impact on horror film and novels. Includes celebrity guests John Carpenter, Clive Barker and Frank Darabont, plus a section on outrageous horror film promot ...

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Movies Made By Frank Darabont (29)

Walking the Mile (2014)

Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel. ...

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When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' (2008)

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film. ...

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Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist' (2008)

Whenever a solid "brain trust" around creature assembly exists, then the process behind crafting these monsters must've been interesting. This 13-minute featurette captures the process of crafting the concepts for the monsters, from the models assembled fo ...

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The Mist (2007)

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their liv ...

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Collateral (2004)

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin. ...

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The Salton Sea (2002)

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and get ...

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The Majestic (2001)

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son. ...

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Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile (2000)

Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send th ...

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The Green Mile (1999)

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately t ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life (1999)

On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary; fighting his consci ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999)

Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1999)

Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady spy. Relying on his wits and her tantalizing skill at belly dancing, the daring duo works desperately to ...

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Black Cat Run (1998)

A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation with the boy friend, he is killed by escaped convicts and the daughter is kidnapped. Everyone, including th ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996)

While visiting Russia on his father's lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father are forced together by circumstance when they get into a bind in the monasteries of Meteora, where they shar ...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with ...

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Brooks and the Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The story of the short life that Brooks leads after being institutionalized in Shawshank Prison. ...

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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresn ...

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Nightshift Collection (1994)

Stephen King's "dollar baby" double bill consisting of Frank Darabont's The Woman in the Room (1984) and Jeff Schiro's The Boogeyman (1982). ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom (1993)

Indy is ordered to locate and destroy a powerful German artillery gun that is mysteriously able to appear and disappear at will, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Assisting him is a colorful group of soldiers nicknamed "The Old and the Bold" becau ...

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Two-Fisted Tales (1992)

The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," and "Yellow." This star-studded telefilm was an attempt to launch a second anthology series in the mold of ...

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Buried Alive (1990)

A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways. ...

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The Fly II (1989)

Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state. ...

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The Blob (1988)

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. ...

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for a suicide attempt, sends her to a psychiatric ward, where she joins a group of similarly troubled teens. ...

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Trancers (1984)

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the fut ...

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Crimes of Passion (1984)

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy. ...

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The Woman in the Room (1983)

The main character, an attorney by profession, spends endless hours with his terminally ill mother. Death is her only way out and he's the only one that can help. ...

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The Seduction (1982)

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty. ...

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Hell Night (1981)

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. ...

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