Eli Roth

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Eli Roth

Eli Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Newton, Massachusetts. He is best known for writing and directing the horror movies Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2006).

1 Career
2 Roth Set To Direct "Bad Seed" Remake
3 Filmography (director)
4 External links

[edit] Career

Roth began shooting films at the age of eight after watching Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). He made over 50 short films with his brothers Adam and Gabe before graduating at Newton South High School and then attending film school at New York University, from which he graduated in 1994.

Actress Camryn Manheim gave Roth one of his first professional breaks in Hollywood, and introduced him to many well connected people when he first moved to Los Angeles. By the age of 20, Roth was the development head for producer Frederick Zollo, eventually leaving to devote himself to writing full-time. To earn his living, Roth did budgets and schedules for such films as A Price Above Rubies and Illuminata.

[edit] Cabin Fever

In 1995, Roth co-wrote Cabin Fever with his roommate and friend from NYU Randy Pearlstein. Much of the script was written while Roth was working as a production assistant for Howard Stern's movie Private Parts; Stern remembered and congratulated Roth on his January 11, 2006 radio show. The movie was filmed in 2001 on a shoestring budget of 1.5 million (raised with private investors) and shown at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival.

Lionsgate used the theatrical success of Cabin Fever to raise the money to purchase Artisan studios. Lionsgate's stock rose from $1.98 a share at the time Cabin Fever was purchased at the Toronto Film Festival to nearly $6 a share after "Cabin Fever" was released theatrically. (Source: Lionsgate website financial reports.)

[edit] Hostel

Roth's second commercial film, Hostel, was made on a budget of $4 million, in 2005. It went on to gross $80 million worldwide in box office, and over $100 million worldwide on DVD. this movie takes place in the city of Bratislava, Slovakia, where two college students visit a hostel, where they think that all of their fanasies will come true. Instead, they find an international syndicate with the express purpose of torturing and killing random people off the street and from different countries for profit and sexual release. Arguably the most horrific scene is when the Japanese exchange student has her eye seared off with a welding torch.

[edit] Animation

Roth is an accomplished animator, having written, produced, directed, animated and voiced two series: Chowdaheads (1999) and The Rotten Fruit (2000). Chowdaheads was co-written and co-voiced with friend Noah Belson, and was made with traditional hand-drawn animation. The Rotten Fruit, which Roth again co-wrote and co-voiced with Belson, was made with stop-motion animation done with foam puppets.

[edit] Current Projects

Roth is working on three other film projects, including Hostel 2 (due for release in 2007); an adaptation of the Stephen King novel Cell; and along with Edgar Wright, will be directing a fake trailer for the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez movie Grind House (2007). Roth will also appear in Tarantino's Death Proof segment.

[edit] Roth Set To Direct "Bad Seed" Remake

According to Variety Cabin Fever horror film dirctor, Eli Roth, is set to remake the motion picture The Bad Seed with Warner Bros. Pictures.

Roth was noted to say the following:

The original was a great psychological thriller, and we are going to bastardize and exploit it, ramping up the body counts and killings, said Roth. This is going to be scary, bloody fun, and we're going to create the next horror icon, à la Freddy, Jason and Chucky. She's this cunning, adorable kid who loves to kill, but also loves 'N Sync.^[1]

A writer is set to be hired in the coming future

This information comes from http://www.movieweb.com/news/80/4880.php http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421669/