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43-528: [REDACTED] Look up moonstone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moonstone may refer to: Moonstone (gemstone) , a sodium potassium aluminium silicate Moonstone as belomorite , one of the varieties of plagioclase Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Fictional entities [ edit ] Moonstone, Colorado, a town in The Song of

86-523: A 1939 novel by the Italian writer Tommaso Landolfi, which means "The Moonstone" in Italian See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "moon-stone"  or "moonstone" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Moonstone All pages with titles containing Moonstone All pages with titles containing moon stone Topics referred to by

129-408: A 1939 novel by the Italian writer Tommaso Landolfi, which means "The Moonstone" in Italian See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "moon-stone"  or "moonstone" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Moonstone All pages with titles containing Moonstone All pages with titles containing moon stone Topics referred to by

172-415: A 1991 computer game The Moonstones , a Sri Lankan band Businesses [ edit ] Moonstone (company) , a Japanese visual novel studio Moonstone (imprint) , an imprint of HarperCollins Moonstone Books , an American publisher Places [ edit ] Moonstone, Ontario , Canada Mount St. Louis Moonstone , a ski resort Moonstone, California , U.S. Moonstone Beach ,

215-415: A 1991 computer game The Moonstones , a Sri Lankan band Businesses [ edit ] Moonstone (company) , a Japanese visual novel studio Moonstone (imprint) , an imprint of HarperCollins Moonstone Books , an American publisher Places [ edit ] Moonstone, Ontario , Canada Mount St. Louis Moonstone , a ski resort Moonstone, California , U.S. Moonstone Beach ,

258-467: A TV film The Moonstone (1959 TV series) , a British miniseries The Moonstone (1972 TV series) , a British miniseries The Moonstone (2016 TV series) , a British miniseries "Moonstone" (The Outer Limits) , a 1964 episode Other uses in arts and entertainment [ edit ] The Moonstone , an 1868 book by Wilkie Collins "Moonstone", a song by Cat Stevens from the 1967 album New Masters Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight ,

301-467: A TV film The Moonstone (1959 TV series) , a British miniseries The Moonstone (1972 TV series) , a British miniseries The Moonstone (2016 TV series) , a British miniseries "Moonstone" (The Outer Limits) , a 1964 episode Other uses in arts and entertainment [ edit ] The Moonstone , an 1868 book by Wilkie Collins "Moonstone", a song by Cat Stevens from the 1967 album New Masters Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight ,

344-565: A WWII British Royal Navy armed trawler Moonstone Records , a record label Pachyphytum oviferum , succulent plant known as moonstone Sandakada pahana or Moonstone, carved semi-circular stone slabs in Sri Lanka Moonstone, UK National Lottery number selection machine Moonstone, a 1991 Performing Arts Festival Moonstones, distinctively Latter Day Saint motifs in Nauvoo Temple La pietra lunare ,

387-428: A WWII British Royal Navy armed trawler Moonstone Records , a record label Pachyphytum oviferum , succulent plant known as moonstone Sandakada pahana or Moonstone, carved semi-circular stone slabs in Sri Lanka Moonstone, UK National Lottery number selection machine Moonstone, a 1991 Performing Arts Festival Moonstones, distinctively Latter Day Saint motifs in Nauvoo Temple La pietra lunare ,

430-400: A contest for a chance for a member of the audience to have a part in a future Full Moon feature. As of 2009, none of these winners had received their roles. However, on August 27, 2009, Band blogged that those who were chosen would have the opportunity to be cast in his next project. Band continued the roadshow in 2006, this time putting it in smaller venues. A similar contest offering a part in

473-618: A former tourist attraction in Redondo Beach, California, U.S. Moonstone Beach, a beach in Cambria, California , U.S. Other uses [ edit ] Moonstone (horse) , an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare Lunar Society Moonstones , a set of sandstone memorials to members of the Lunar Society USS ; Moonstone  (PYc-9) , a WWII U.S. Navy patrol yacht HMS  Moonstone  (T90) ,

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516-426: A former tourist attraction in Redondo Beach, California, U.S. Moonstone Beach, a beach in Cambria, California , U.S. Other uses [ edit ] Moonstone (horse) , an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare Lunar Society Moonstones , a set of sandstone memorials to members of the Lunar Society USS  Moonstone  (PYc-9) , a WWII U.S. Navy patrol yacht HMS  Moonstone  (T90) ,

559-469: A hotel room in Ohio. Over the next several years, Full Moon continued its releases and even introduced more labels: Bookwalter would eventually get the chance to direct a Full Moon film with the sequel to Witchouse , Witchouse 2: Blood Coven . It was Bookwalter's first film on 35 mm and with it opened a new door for Bookwalter's Tempe Entertainment . Starting with Horror Vision , Tempe Entertainment

602-463: A huge hit for Full Moon. Following the film on VHS and LaserDisc was a featurette entitled No Strings Attached , which documents the making of Puppet Master . It then featured interviews with cast and crew members, including actor Paul Le Mat and Charles Band himself. The next three releases— Shadowzone , Meridian: Kiss of the Beast , and Crash and Burn (changing to Full Moon Entertainment with

645-430: A movie was held at these events. In 2011, contest winners were contacted for the chance to be extras in the movie Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver . Available winners who could make it to the set were featured as extras in the movie during a mass electrocution scene at a roller rink. Full Moon uploaded pictures of the contest winners onset on its official Facebook page. In 2009, Band hopes to expand Full Moon to

688-641: A similar release schedule more like the mid-1990s with a new release every month. Additionally, the company plans to add sequels to many franchises, including Puppet Master , Demonic Toys , and Head of the Family . In 2012, the Videozone was brought back, making its return on the DVD release of Puppet Master X: Axis Rising . In addition, the Moonbeam Entertainment brand label was revived under

731-881: A town in The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Moonstone (comics) , the name of two Marvel Comics universe characters Moonstone, a plot element in season 2 of The Vampire Diaries Moonstone Opal, a plot element in Tangled The Series Moonstone, a setting in Erin Hunter's Warriors story arc Moonstone, an artifact in the Lone Wolf gamebooks Film and television [ edit ] The Moonstone (1909 film) , by William Nicholas Selig, probably lost The Moonstone (1915 film) , by Frank Hall Crane The Moonstone (1934 film) , by Reginald Barker The Moonstone (1996 film) ,

774-495: A weekly television series on the Sci Fi Channel called William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night . Veteran actor, William Shatner , hosted Full Moon films with wraparounds, as well as interviews with many of sci-fi's most notable personalities, including Stan Lee and Jeffrey Combs . Tempe also received exposure here as HorrorVision was included in this short-lived series. With the release of 2000's The Dead Hate

817-511: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages moonstone [REDACTED] Look up moonstone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moonstone may refer to: Moonstone (gemstone) , a sodium potassium aluminium silicate Moonstone as belomorite , one of the varieties of plagioclase Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Fictional entities [ edit ] Moonstone, Colorado,

860-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Moonstone Records After the collapse of Band's previous film studio Empire Pictures , he moved back to the United States from Rome and opened Full Moon Productions. Band's goal with Full Moon was to create low-budget horror , sci-fi , and fantasy films while retaining a somewhat "big-budget" look. In

903-663: The " comic book feel" that Band insisted with the Full Moon product. In 1992, Full Moon decided to expand into theatrical film production, with a distribution agreement at Paramount Pictures , to release two films, but it was never materialized. Full Moon continued producing its releases throughout the early '90s (sometimes as many as twelve releases a year) and in 1993 founded two more labels: Torchlight Entertainment , specializing in softcore pornographic sci-fi comedies and Moonbeam Entertainment , specializing in family orientated sci-fi and fantasy films. Torchlight's first release

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946-643: The Full Moon name to Full Moon Features. Full Moon Features intends to take more time making films with considerably higher budgets and on 35 mm film and as of July 2006 has focused on that with the exceptions of When Puppets and Dolls Attack! , Monsters Gone Wild! , and Aliens Gone Wild! (all clip shows). In 2005, Charles Band embarked on the Full Moon Horror Roadshow, a traveling, live Full Moon-inspired show featuring Band and actors/actresses from past Full Moon films. Some shows also featured his son, Alex Band . At all shows, Band offered

989-610: The Lark by Willa Cather Moonstone (comics) , the name of two Marvel Comics universe characters Moonstone, a plot element in season 2 of The Vampire Diaries Moonstone Opal, a plot element in Tangled The Series Moonstone, a setting in Erin Hunter's Warriors story arc Moonstone, an artifact in the Lone Wolf gamebooks Film and television [ edit ] The Moonstone (1909 film) , by William Nicholas Selig, probably lost The Moonstone (1915 film) , by Frank Hall Crane The Moonstone (1934 film) , by Reginald Barker The Moonstone (1996 film) ,

1032-651: The Living! , Band dropped the VideoZone name and produced behind-the-scenes featurettes without a masthead. Blockbuster Entertainment , a longtime supporter of the Full Moon brand requested the company produce a slasher film , due to the late '90s resurgence of this subgenre, thanks to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer . With the help of an uncredited Tempe Entertainment, Band produced Bleed and acquired Keith Walley 's Scared , renaming it Cut Throat . Band produced only two more films "officially" under

1075-555: The Shadow name: ( Birthrite , Delta Delta Die! ). Another Keith Walley film Speck was acquired. William Shatner 's DV science-fiction movie Groom Lake , produced by J. R. Bookwalter became notorious as one of the most-expensive films of the modern era of Full Moon. Band also decided around this time to bring back an old label used in the Empire era named Wizard Video , which distributed cult-like films . This modern rendition saw

1118-448: The United States, Canada, and several foreign territories, from the company's very humble beginnings, Full Moon teamed with Paramount Pictures and Pioneer Home Entertainment for direct-to-video releasing on VHS and LaserDisc and the first release was the feature film directed by David Schmoeller , Puppet Master in 1989, and designed to create the company under the umbrella of Bandcompany, Inc. Puppet Master turned out to be

1161-480: The company's own properties. In 1995, due to the direct-to-video market losing interest and financial ground with the rental market in addition to internal issues, Full Moon Entertainment separated from distributor Paramount. Full Moon's Halloween 1995 production Castle Freak was released on video unrated. Castle Freak was eventually released in November 1995 in both R-rated and unrated versions. After

1204-434: The fifth Full Moon release Puppet Master II in 1991, Full Moon introduced VideoZone, a behind-the-scenes video magazine. The average VideoZone featured an introduction by Charles Band, the making-of the "movie you just watched," an interview with someone involved in a future Full Moon release, merchandise (such as Full Moon T-shirts, posters and other assorted goods), trailers, and contact information. VideoZone tied together

1247-542: The genre. To conserve costs (as most Full Moon features were being made for much less than the Paramount-distributed films), the film was put together using footage from the first five Puppet Master files, as well as some new footage. However, Bookwalter's work got Full Moon noticed on Apple.com where a story was published about Bookwalter's editing of Curse of the Puppet Master on his iBook in

1290-488: The name of Mega Scorpions , it has yet to see a release on DVD or Blu-ray . [1] A teaser trailer for the film does exist on J. R. Bookwalter's Tempe Entertainment website. In late 2003, Band began work on his first 35 mm film in years, Dr. Moreau's House of Pain . The film released in January 2004 also marked the official return of the name Full Moon Pictures . However, while the film's video releases all contain

1333-502: The name of Shadow Entertainment, the film's trailer contains the Full Moon Pictures logo. Quickly before the release of Dr. Moreau's House of Pain , Full Moon released Puppet Master: The Legacy , a "greatest hits" film that contained the best scenes from all (hitherto) seven Puppet Master films with about 20 minutes of a wrap-around story and very bad puppet effects (string rods can be seen in almost every scene featuring

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1376-510: The puppets). Once again, all video releases said Shadow Entertainment, but the trailer featured the Full Moon Pictures logo. On the heels of Puppet Master: The Legacy , Band quickly cut together Tomb of Terror , Horrific , and Urban Evil . These three films edited by HorrorVision director, Danny Draven, were clip shows that showed off the best in Full Moon's library. After the release of those films, Band re-christened

1419-406: The release of Shrieker in 1998, Band enlisted the help of Ohio -based filmmaker and Tempe Entertainment founder, J. R. Bookwalter , who had recently relocated to California . Bookwalter was commissioned by Band to begin editing features, including Curse of the Puppet Master . Curse of the Puppet Master was created primarily out of market demand and isn't held in high regard with fans of

1462-489: The release of Tempe's Skinned Alive and Ozone (renamed Street Zombies for the Wizard release). However, due to low sales, another Tempe film Bloodletting (which was also renamed: I've Killed Before ) was dropped from the release schedule. In 2003, Charles Band entered into a deal with 20th Century Fox to produce a low budget horror movie. Fox would distribute the movie and Band would retain copyrights. The film

1505-415: The release of the latter)—all featured a making-of presentation after the film. Paramount, however, didn't believe in the making-of concept and forced Band to pay for all of the additional tape needed. At the same time, Band also reissued two catalog titles, Tourist Trap and Parasite through Paramount. Some controversy arose, however, many years after the release of Puppet Master . In an interview on

1548-534: The releases of Castle Freak and Oblivion 2: Backlash , Band renamed Full Moon Entertainment, Full Moon Studios for the feature Vampire Journals and used the name Full Moon Pictures for the following film Hideous! . Band continued to distribute all films on his own under then name of Amazing Fantasy Entertainment until around 1999 when some of the films were distributed by The Kushner-Locke Company . In 1997, Bobby Young, who had joined Full Moon two years earlier, has left to start Dominion Entertainment. With

1591-454: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Moonstone . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moonstone&oldid=1250514393 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1634-454: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Moonstone . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moonstone&oldid=1250514393 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1677-488: The website The Terror Trap, Puppet Master director, David Schmoeller, says that Charles Band owes him residuals, as well as stating that Charles Band doesn't give credit to directors. Schmoeller continues, saying that Band didn't want him on the director's commentary on the DVD release of Puppet Master , because "it would reveal that someone else shared in the creation of Full Moon's biggest and most successful franchise." With

1720-478: Was Beach Babes From Beyond ; Moonbeam's was Prehysteria! , which actually became a high seller for distributor Paramount and was one of the first Full Moon films to be sold as an inexpensive sell-through product (as most Full Moon features were sold on VHS as rental items with prices upwards of $ 100 for each tape). Full Moon has also set up the Moonstone Records, and film and trading cards based on

1763-478: Was accustomed to producing films on shoestring budgets. On January 16, 2001, Full Moon decided to launch a TV show with William Shatner attached as host, presenting various Full Moon pictures. Once again, the industry changed and Band decided to end the Full Moon label with the 2002 release of Jigsaw . In 2001, Full Moon decided to bow out of theatrical distribution, and decided to focus back to straight-to-video films. During this era of Full Moon, Band secured

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1806-575: Was directed by J. R. Bookwalter and named Deadly Stingers. In the tradition of the giant killer bug movies, Deadly Stingers was about giant scorpions taking over a town. However, after the film was completed, it was shelved due to a decline in the industry and low sales of another similar project at Fox (excluding Full Moon) entitled Dark Wolf . The film was shown at the Frightvision Horror Festival in 2003, but while it has surfaced on Full Moon Streaming as of December 2013 under

1849-432: Was hired to produce several Full Moon films for Band. All of these films were shot on DV , a first for Full Moon and were primarily made for under $ 60,000 (with Witchouse 3: Demon Fire completed for $ 26,000). The films were produced under very tight schedules, some being shot in as little as nine days. While the production drawbacks were high in each situation, this opportunity gave new exposure to Bookwalter and Tempe who

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