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To promote its DVD release next week of The Chaos Experiment, Genius Products sent Fango an exclusive video clip of star Val Kilmer discussing his villainous starring role in the film. You can check it out below the cut.

Kilmer stars in the movie, directed by Philippe Martinez from a Robert Malkani script, as an unbalanced and discredited scientist who attempts to prove his theories about global warming’s effects on humanity by locking six people in a steam room and subjecting them to increasing heat. Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown, Patrick Muldoon and Eve Mauro co-star. You can pre-order the disc here, read our on-line feature on the movie here and see a Chaos Experiment set-visit report in Fango #285, on sale now.

"The Steam Experiment," also known as "The Chaos Experiment," will be released on DVD August 4, 2009 through Genius Products. Starring Val Kilmer the film has already had a theatrical premiere in Grand Rapids, Michigan and could have further limited engagements until the DVD release. For now have a look at the trailer for "The Steam Experiment," that brings a nightmare in a sauna to a bloody reality.

The synopsis for "The Steam Experiment," here...

"A former professor (Kilmer) concocts a brutal experiment in order to get the word out on the effects of global warming. By trapping six people in an urban Turkish bathhouse, he vows to overheat his hostages unless his global-warming hypothesis is published on the front page of his local paper (IMDb)."

Release Date: August 4, 2009.

Director: Philippe Martinez.

Writer: Robert Malkani.

Cast: Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, Patrick Muldoon, Armand Assante, and Megan Brown.

"The Steam Experiment," trailer...

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The Steam Experiment at UpcomingHorrorMovies.

Two and a half hours west of Detroit sits the city of Grand Rapids—an unspectacular Midwestern location, but the one where director Philippe Martinez has opted to shoot The Chaos Experiment (a.k.a. The Steam Experiment, the title under which it will be released internationally). With a cast that features such names as Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts and Patrick Muldoon, along with Quinn Duffy and sexy actresses Eve Mauro, Megan Brown and Cordelia Reynolds, it’s unsurprising that, as Fango arrives on set at 9:00 on a cold Wednesday evening, an excited crowd is gathered behind mildly perturbed-looking security guards, eager to catch a glimpse at the sort of movie stars that rarely set foot in their hometown.

Fango is led to the set where an uneventful bar scene featuring Assante and Martinez’s daughter (making a cameo as a barmaid—the director, whose sister Karinne...

Fango got the word that the Philippe Martinez-directed psychothriller originally titled The Steam Experiment has now been retitled The Chaos Experiment for U.S. release. We also got ahold of some new exclusive photos from the movie, which you can see below.

Scripted by Robert Malkani, the movie stars Val Kilmer as former professor James Pettis, who attempts to prove his theories about the dangers of global warming in the most extreme way possible: He kidnaps six people and traps them in a Turkish bath to prove that the oppressive heat will cause them to break down mentally. His victims are played by Eric Roberts, Megan Brown, Patrick Muldoon, Eve Mauro, Quinn Duffy and Cordelia Reynolds; Armand Assante also stars as the detective interrogating Pettis, who will only disclose his captives’ location if his beliefs are printed as a front-page newspaper story.

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The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival will hold its third annual Midnight Awards, honoring Elijah Wood and Evan Rachel Wood, on April 25 at the W San Francisco Hotel.

The event, taking the form of a late-night talk show hosted by author Beth Lisick, will include interviews with the two young actors and clips of their work before the presentation of the awards.

The Midnight Awards were created in 2007 to honor a dynamic young actor and actress entering the prime of their careers who have made outstanding contributions to independent and Hollywood cinema and who bring intelligence, talent and depth of character to their roles. Previous honorees are Rose McGowan, Jason Lee, Rosario Dawson and Sam Rockwell.

Elijah Wood, who starred in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, recently lent his voice to Focus' animated film "9." He was last seen in "Oxford Murders" and "Paris, Je T'aime." He is making his first foray into producing,...

Val Kilmer is one among five to board Philippe Martinez’s upcoming indie thriller “The Steam Experiment,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown and Patrick Muldoon have also signed on to star in the project, which recently began filming in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Written by Rob Malkani, “Steam” focuses on a former university professor (Kilmer) who traps six people in a Turkish bathhouse and keeps increasing the temperature to prove to the world that humanity will slip into chaos under the impact of global warming.

Assante plays a detective who tries to find the location of the hostages. Roberts, Brown and Muldoon play three of the victims. On board to star as the remaining three are Eve Mauro, Quinn Duffy and Cordelia Reynolds.

Martinez also directed “Citizen Verdict” and the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle “Wake of Death.”

Kilmer has several projects awaiting release, including Werner Herzog...

Easily one of the most ridiculous plots I have read it a long while comes courtesy of a new indie film in production entitled The Steam Experiment, which was written by Rob Malkani. Now filming in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the film stars Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown and Patrick Muldoon and is ready to turn up the heat, read on to see the synopsis. The feature, revolving around six people trapped and terrorized in an urban Turkish bathhouse, marks a return to directing for its Cinepro Pictures producer Philippe Martinez. Kilmer plays a former university professor who overheats his hostages to prove that humans will devolve into chaos under the pressures of global warming. He tells a detective (Assante) that their location will be revealed if his hypothesis is printed as the local paper's front-page headline.

New York -- Things are heating up for Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown and Patrick Muldoon in the indie suspense thriller "The Steam Experiment."

The feature, revolving around six people trapped and terrorized in an urban Turkish bathhouse, marks a return to directing for its Cinepro Pictures producer Philippe Martinez.

Kilmer plays a former university professor who overheats his hostages to prove that humans will devolve into chaos under the pressures of global warming. He tells a detective (Assante) that their location will be revealed if his hypothesis is printed as the local paper's front-page headline.

The six potential victims are a former pro football player (Roberts), a former actress (Brown), a nurse (Muldoon), a waitress (Eve Mauro), a restaurateur (Quinn Duffy) and a writer (Cordelia Reynolds). As temperatures rise, the desperate detainees fight for survival.

Rob Malkani ("Day Zero") wrote the original screenplay. Karinne Behr, Luc Campeau,...

• "I just hope the film finds an audience among young people (in their twenties). It’s easy for a film like this to get lost amid all the bigger films – or the festival winners – but I think that if people find the film, they will be surprised at how it makes them feel – and I think they will enjoy it". - Producer and screenwriter Robert Malkani The recent handful of Iraq-war themed films–such as In the Valley of Elah and Redacted have done poorly at the box-office. The same thing happened in the 70's while filmmakers were releasing Vietnam movies such as Apocalypse Now. Why do you think that audiences are shying away from war-themed films?I can’t speak intelligently about what happened to those films in the 70’s, but today I think it’s because people go to the movies primarily to be entertained – not educated.

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Elijah Wood is making his first foray into producing, teaming with Anthony Moody and Rob Malkani's Indalo Prods. to bring to the big screen an adaptation of Elliott Chaze's legendary noir novel Black Wings Has My Angel.

The script is being penned by Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway) and writer-producer-director Christopher Peditto.

Chaze was a newspaperman and columnist in Mississippi who wrote books on the side. Angel, published in 1953, is considered one of the shining lights of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback line and a pulp classic.

The story centers on an antihero, an ex-convict, who stages a daring armed car robbery in Colorado with the help of a call girl whom he picked up in a backwoods Mississippi motel.

The book was out of print for about 50 years and Peditto spent 10 years chasing down and securing the film rights.

"It's the material", said Wood, summing up why he decided to dip his foot into producing waters. "I've always been intrigued by noir novels and noir films."...