With more than 300 illustrations, this spectacular, full-color visual companion reveals how a movie of gigantic scope and complexity is made—especially one shot in modern-day China and Montreal with sets to replicate 200 B.C. China and 1946 Shanghai and London. Director Rob Cohen’s introduction offers a fascinating glimpse into the moviemaking process as he describes how he worked with the producers, screenwriters, crew, and cast to prepare the movie for production. Additional sections cover the remarkable sets, action sequences, creatures, and costumes, all highlighted by photographs, storyboards, drawings, and commentary from the film’s cast and crew, especially production designer Nigel Phelps. This is a must-have volume for all movie buffs.
Doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell his insatiable hungers, Ramses the Damned turns up in Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey and begins a romance with heiress Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward ...
CONSTRUCTION CAMP — DAY — CLOSE SHOT — ON WOODEN SHINGLESIGN bearing the lettering: OFFICE SOUTHERN ENGINEERING COMPANY P. Walsh, Supt. OVER THE INSERT we HEARWALSH'S vehement and forceful VOICE. WALSH'S VOICE O.S.: It's up to you to ...
The Mummy
Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Candace Fleming presents the edge-of-your-seat true story of the search for Tutankhamun's tomb, the Western public's belief that the dig was cursed, and the battle for ownership of the treasures ...
Having escaped from the clutches of the sinister Sect of Annubis, Angel, an Ukrainian immigrant trafficked illegally into the UK is now lost and alone on the unknown streets of London.
A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.
A brand-new Goosebumps arc narrated by the most iconic and evil character of the series, Slappy!
From the award-winning author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the Johnny Dixon stories are a refreshingly old-fashioned series of adventure and supernatural mystery.
It’s up to Violet and the gang to save the day! Complete with two-colour illustrations throughout by Becka Moor, this is a fresh and funny mystery and readers will fall in love with Violet’s quirky charm.
As Mark Valentine argues in his new introduction to this edition, Riccardo Stephens's exceedingly scarce The Mummy (1912) is a fine piece of storytelling, an inventive weird mystery that bears comparison with the works of Conan Doyle and ...