This is how I looked,

This is how I looked, younger, when I was working for Sony as Marketing Director in France. This was one of my favourites films I released. I found artists who designed the art you see on the picture, I provided them to key theatres. I remember of this contest where the winners were sent to a castle in Transylvania, the very castle of Vlad Tepes "The Impaler". I had arraanged for them to spend a night in this castle, but they could not leave their hotel because of 1 m deep snow.

I had organized a premiere at The Big Rex, 2800 VIP's Copola attending, guest star Christopher Lee,  ministers, wife of François Mitterand... Fake snow, antique carriage with black horses and a coffin, dressed up Vampire fans all over the cinema, a grand Water Show prelude (turning bloody red of course), 300 litres of Bloody Mary offered in the cinema, after-party at the Queen's club with a 2* chef serving his dishes, Vampire Drag Queens... Number exclsuive watches: Francis got N°1, Sophia the N°3 and I kept the N°2, all sorts of fun memories.

Bigger satisfaction the film was a huge Box Office success with 4 M admissions!
Much more than Fright Nights 2, the other genre movie I had released which trained me in the art of promoting a vamire's movie.

 I remember Coppola told me "stop beeing a Dog (working for a major) become a Wolf! (independent)

''I did it Francis'' !

Bruno Chatelin

The editor

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