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Frank Mancuso junior (* 9. Oktober 1958 in Buffalo, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmproduzent. Leben. Mancuso wurde als Sohn von Frank Mancuso, Sr. geboren, der in führenden Positionen bei Paramount Pictures und MGM tätig war.
Frank G. Mancuso Jr. (born October 9, 1958) is an American film producer. Mancuso, the son of the former Paramount Pictures president Frank Mancuso Sr., was born in Buffalo, New York. [citation needed] Mancuso produced sequels to Friday the 13th and co-created Friday the 13th: The Series.
Frank G. Mancuso Sr. (born July 25, 1933) is an American former film studio executive. Mancuso was the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures between 1984 and 1991, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1993 and 1999, when he retired.
Frank Mancuso Jr., ein Produzent der Filme, entwickelte ebenfalls die Fernsehserie Friday the 13th: The Series, nachdem Paramount Pictures den sechsten Teil der Reihe veröffentlicht hatte.
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On the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day, a group of college friends, consisting of Harvey, Nikki, Rob, Skip, Nan, Chaz, Kit, and Arch, gather to celebrate spring break by spending the weekend at the island mansion of Skip's cousin and Vassar student Muffy St. John. As Muffy prepares details around the house, she finds an old jack-in-the-boxan...
Casting
Amy Steel was cast in the role of Kit at the suggestion of producer Frank Mancuso Jr., after Steel had appeared in Mancuso's Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). In the role of Muffy St. John, the young college student who holds the gathering at her familial mansion, Deborah Foreman (who had recently starred opposite Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl), auditioned for the role.Walton recalled that he cast Foreman after she "blew them away" during her audition.
Filming
After considering shooting the film at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and Seattle, Washington, producer Frank Mancuso Jr. chose to shoot the film on Vancouver Island in Victoria, British Columbia. Filming took place over a period of six weeks at two private properties in Victoria.Walton reflect that the cast was made up of a "young, very talented group of kids that were having a lot of fun".
Post-production
An additional final sequence in the film, present in Walton's original cut, had the group leaving the island, and Skip enacting an actual murder of Muffy, wanting to take their familial inheritance for himself.Paramount executives disliked this dark turn, and mandated that this final sequence be excised so that the film could end on a high note, with the characters celebrating after the revelation of Muffy's elaborate prank.
Box office
April Fool's Day was theatrically released in the United States on 1,202 screens and earned $3.4 million during its opening weekend, eventually grossing $13 million domestically.Though a commercial success, director Walton reflected: "The tragedy, I think, or the great disappointment was that Paramount didn't know how to release it other than as a typical slasher picture. So most audiences came in expecting to see something that they weren't going to see".
Critical response
Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post wrote: "The suspense sequences are stylishly managed, and Walton has attractively cast the movie with a number of natural, if unexciting, actors. There is a suburban princess and a jock and a Junior Achievement type and so forth, none of which qualifies Bach for screenwriter of the year, but it's remarkable how effective even these elementary efforts at characterization are in the context of the film". Reviewing the film in The New York Times, Vincent Can...
Home media
For its home video premiere in the 1980s, it was released to both videocassette and LaserDisc. It has since been released to DVD on four occasions. The first edition was made available on September 3, 2002 through Paramount Home Entertainment. It was then included as one of the films on a triple-feature disc that also included Tales from the Darkside: The Movie and Stephen King's Graveyard Shift in August 2007. Eight months later, in March 2008, it was offered as a double feature with My Bloo...
A soundtrack for the film was released in 1986 on vinyl only. The soundtrack consists of 19 cues and runs approximately 30:27. In 2015, as part of Varèse Sarabande's LP to CD subscription series, the vinyl album was released on cd for the first time in a replica vinyl cardboard slip. Track listing 1. "Intro" 2. "Main Title" 3. "Choke a Dagger" 4. "...
A novelization of the film by Jeff Rovin was published in 1986 by Pocket Books alongside its theatrical release.This novelization features an alternate ending in which Skip sneaks back onto the island after everyone has left to kill Muffy for his share of the family money, though he fails and winds up dead himself. This ending has never been releas...
Rockoff, Adam (2011). Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-46932-1.
April's Fool's Day at IMDbApril Fool's Day at Rotten TomatoesFrank G. Mancuso Jr. (born October 9, 1958) is an American film producer.
Frank Mancuso Jr. ist ein US - amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent geboren am 9. Oktober 1958 in Buffalo, New York ( Vereinigte Staaten). Biografie. Er ist der Sohn von Frank Mancuso Sr., der von 1984 bis 1999 Präsident von MGM war. Wir haben es 1990 bei einem kleinen Auftritt in Internal Affairs ( Internal Affairs) gesehen ...
