Kevin VanHook |
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Kevin VanHook is a film-maker who began his career in storytelling as a comic book artist and writer. In comics, he is best known for his work on Bloodshot from Valiant Comics, which sold nearly 750,000 copies of its debut issue. He also wrote the Flash Gordon Sunday Comic Strip for King Features In the early 1990's.In 1998, he began filming, "Frost: Portrait of a Vampire" while founding the visual effects company, "VanHook Studios." Frost was completed in 2001 and released on DVD in 2003, where it became the 18th highest grossing DVD premiere that year.In 2002, VanHook Studios merged with Film Roman, the animation company best known for animating The Simpsons TV series. During his stint as a visual effects artist and supervisor, Kevin has worked on such films as Miss Congeniality, Hart's War, Daredevil, I,Robot and many others, as well as the TV series Law & Order and Xena.Film Roman was acquired by IDT, an international telephone company expanding into entertainment in 2003. After IDT acquired Anchor Bay Entertainment, a leading DVD distributor, Kevin created a new film for IDT, "The Fallen Ones," starring Casper Van Dien and Robert Wagner. This was followed by, "Voodoo Moon," an action-horror film packed with genre stars like Charisma Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs and Dee Wallace. Soon afterward, a deal was struck between IDT Entertainment and the SCI FI Channel for a slate of films to be written and directed by Kevin.In 2006, IDT Entertainment acquired by Starz Media. Kevin continues to work as a Vice President at Starz on work ranging from visual effects to developing new entertainment for film and television.He is currently in post-production on an original documentary he directed, “Fantastic Flesh: The Story of Make-Up EFX” for Starz' premium cable channel—set to premiere October 28, 2008.
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Stunts:Reckoning (2002) (stunts) Animation Department:My Favorite Martian (1999) (animator: Available Light) Thanks:Adventures Into Digital Comics (2006) (special thanks) Self: Giants in the Earth: The Making of 'The Fallen Ones' (2005) (V)...Himself |
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