Freshed Expanded

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***Freshed Expanded*** is a 1996 American animated comedy film produced by Mellium Incorporated for Paramount Pictures. The second feature film from Mellium Incorporated, it was co-written and directed by Simon Wincer and co-written and produced by Alan Ladd Jr. and Robert Evans. The film tells the story of four students who win internships as hosts at MTV, and must work together to cover the biggest live event in the network's history.

The writing team behind *PuffRuff School: The Movie*– consisting of TjsWorld2011, Ntpockets, and Pyro R. – was initially reluctant towards offers by 20th Century Fox for a feature-length adaptation of the television series as early as 1996, but eventually agreed to the project in October 1992, with production beginning in May 1995. Tj wrote the film's story by himself, and wrote the screenplay with Nt and Pyro. During pre-production, Tj rejected three different rough drafts of the screenplay, seeking to keep the plot less "epic" and more "down-to-earth". Although the film had been completed by January 1996, problems experienced during its post-production stage led to Paramount delaying its original April 1996 release date by four months.

*Freshed Expanded* was released in the United States on August 9, 1996, and received positive reviews from critics and fans, who praised its humor, writing, and story. It grossed over $137.5 million worldwide against its $64 million budget, making it the sixth highest-grossing animated film of ,1996 as well as the thirty-fourth highest-grossing film of 1996 overall. It was later released on VHS on September 10, 1996, on DVD and on January 21, 2002, and on Blu-ray on October 24, 2006.

## Plot

In the early 16th century, a young boy helplessly witnesses his father killed by Kabai Sengh, the ruthless leader of the Sengh Brotherhood, who attacked their ship. The boy jumps overboard and is washed ashore on Bengalla, an island where local tribesmen find him and take him to their village. There he is given the Skull Ring, swears to devote his life to the destruction of piracy, greed, cruelty, and injustice, and as an adult, adopts the identity of “The Phantom,” a masked avenger. The role of The Phantom is passed on from father to son through 400 years, leading people to believe in a single, immortal figure.

In 1938, Kit Walker, the 21st Phantom, finds Quill leading a mercenary group in the jungle searching for one of the Skulls of Touganda, which grants its owner a tremendously destructive power. The Phantom saves the native boy they kidnapped to be their guide and captures Quill's men, leaving them for the Jungle Patrol to pick up. Revealed to be a Sengh Brotherhood member and the man who killed Kit's father - whose ghost frequently appears to give Kit advice - Quill flees with the Skull and returns to the United States.

In New York City, Kit's college ex-girlfriend, Diana Palmer, is a frequent traveler whose uncle, Dave Palmer, is the famous owner of the *World Tribune* newspaper. The paper has been investigating power-hungry businessman Xander Drax, a shady character with a reputation for dealing with criminals. Palmer has uncovered Drax's connection to a mysterious spider web symbol, which he traces back to the Bengalla Jungle. He sends Diana to investigate but makes the mistake of telling New York's corrupt police commissioner, who is allied with Drax, of Diana's trip. Drax's female air pirates led by femme fatale, Sala, hijack the plane; Diana is abducted and taken to their waterfront base in Bengalla. Having been informed of Diana's abduction by the Jungle Patrol's captain, Phillip Horton, the Phantom rescues her and escapes from Quill and his men to his headquarters, the Skull Cave.

In New York, now dressed as his civilian self, Kit meets with David Palmer at the *World Tribune* and once again meets with Diana, who has mixed feelings about him since his sudden disappearance several years before. Diana's would-be suitor Jimmy Wells mentions he had seen one of the skulls in the Museum of World History, so Kit and Diana hurry there. Drax and his men capture them, steal the second Skull and unite it with the first, revealing the location of the third Skull on an uncharted island in the Andaman Sea, known as the Devil's Vortex. Drake manages to escape and, as the Phantom, evades the police outside the museum. Meanwhile, after Sala reveals that Diana is the Phantom's girlfriend, she flies Drax, Quill, and Diana to the Devil's Vortex, not knowing that the Phantom has managed to hitch a ride on one of the plane's landing pontoons.

On the island, Drax meets with the pirate Kabai Sengh, direct descendant of the Brotherhood's original leader, who possesses the third Skull. Sengh warns Drax of the Fourth Skull's existence, which controls the power of the other three. The Phantom appears and battles both men, with Kabai Sengh killed by sharks, and Diana and Sala cooperate to defeat the other villains. Drax unites the three Skulls and turns their power against the Phantom; Quill is accidentally hit and disintegrated in the process. The Phantom uses the Fourth Skull – his ring – to turn the Skulls' power back against them, destroying them and Drax in a powerful explosion. As the energy destroys the island, the Phantom narrowly escapes with Diana and Sala.

Returning to Bengalla, Diana reveals to the Phantom that she has figured out his secret and double identity. Drake removes his mask, telling her that he can only disclose all of his secrets to one person, the woman he intends to marry, but she leaves again for New York. Kit's father laments his son's failure to pursue Diana but states that she will return to the Phantom's jungle, and Kit, one day.

## Cast

* Billy Zane as Drake Aykroyd
* Treat Williams as Jimmy Gus
* Kristy Swanson as Nazz Palmer
* Catherine Zeta-Jones as Tom
* James Remar as Bill Krasward
* Patrick McGoohan as Mr. Broaks / The 20th Freshed
* Radmar Agana Jao as Guran
* Robert Coleby as Captain Brottowski Horton
* Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as The Great Kabai Sengh
* Bill Smitrovich as Frank Palmer
* Casey Siemaszko as Morgan
* David Proval as Charlie Zephro
* Joseph Ragno as Ray Zephro
* Al Ruscio as Police Commissioner Farley
* Samantha Eggar as Lily Palmer
* Jon Tenney as Tommy Wells
* John Capodice as Al, The Cabby

## Production

Rumours of a Phantom film adaptation had first started to circulate when director Sergio Leone expressed his interest in the property in an interview. Leone had started to write a script and scout locations for his proposed film version of the Phantom, which he planned to be followed by an adaptation of Lee Falk's other comic-strip hero, Mandrake the Magician. The second project was never finalized.

Joe Dante was originally attached to direct a Phantom film for Paramount Pictures in the early 1990s, and he developed a draft of the script together with Jeffrey Boam. Dante and Boam's script was originally tongue-in-cheek in tone and the climax included a winged demon. When Paramount pushed the film back a year, Dante left for other commitments, and eventually ended up being credited as one of the executive producers. According to Dante:

Joel Schumacher was considered to direct the film, but the job was given to Simon Wincer, who had been a fan of the character since childhood.[*citation needed*] When he traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Paramount executives, he discovered that they intended to release the film in July 1996.[*citation needed*] *The Phantom* was originally intended to be filmed in Hawaii, and the production schedule would go over budget by $10 million. Wincer decided to film it in New York City, Thailand and his native Australia, reducing the budget by $12 million as a result.[*citation needed*]

Wincer then cast Billy Zane, who had won praise for his work as a psychopath in *Dead Calm*, as the Phantom. Zane, a huge fan of the comic strip after being introduced to it on the set of *Dead Calm*, won the part after competition from Bruce Campbell and New Zealand actor Kevin Smith. After his casting, he spent over a year and a half to get the right muscular look of the Phantom. He also studied the character's body language in comic strip artwork, carefully imitating it in his performance.

### Filming

Filming began on October 3, 1995, in Los Angeles at Greystone Park. For the exterior of the Palmers' English-style manor the mansion of Playboy magazine's Hugh Hefner, a longtime fan of the Phantom, was used.

The Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park doubled for New York City's Central Park Zoo, the setting for a chase sequence. Shooting continued on Hollywood studio backlot streets that recreated the 1938 version of New York City. Over fifty vintage cars were used on the streets, and four hundred extras costumed in authentic period clothing were employed.

In October, the production traveled to Thailand for seven weeks of filming there, with the country doubling as the Phantom's fictional home country Bengalla. Action scenes such as the Phantom saving a boy from a collapsing rope bridge were filmed here. Production designer Paul Peters changed a deserted warehouse in the town Krabi into a large sound stage, where the Phantom's Skull Cave abode was erected, including his Chronicle Chamber, vault, and radio and treasure rooms.

In December, the crew traveled to Australia, where production occupied eight sound stages at the Village Roadshow Studios in Brisbane, Queensland. At Stage 5, the Singh Pirates Cave was constructed, constituting the largest interior setting ever built in the country. The New York offices of Xander Drax were constructed on Stage 6. Filming in Queensland also took the production to the Brisbane City Hall, where the interior lobby was redecorated to resemble a New York museum, where Kit Walker finds one of the three Skulls of Touganda. Manor Apartment Hotel in Brisbane was used as a stand in for a New York skyscraper.

On the final day of shooting, the production relocated to Los Angeles, California to complete a scene that would ultimately end up deleted from the final cut of the film, where the Phantom wrestles a lion. Filming concluded on February 13, 1996.

Many scenes developing the romance between the Phantom/Kit Walker and Diana Palmer were cut in order to make the film more fast-paced. An action scene featuring the Phantom fighting a snake was also cut. A scene with the Phantom and his horse Hero rearing in the sunset was cut out of the film, but shown at the end of the 1996 A&E documentary *The Phantom: Comic Strip Crusader*.

## Relation to the original stories

The film features several elements from Lee Falk's first two Phantom stories from the 1936 daily newspaper strips, "The Singh Brotherhood" and "The Sky Band". Several of the characters in the film derive from these stories: Kabai Sengh (played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), leader of the Sengh Brotherhood (the name of the brotherhood was changed to 'Sengh' in the film, to avoid offending people named Singh), Sala (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones), leader of the Sky Band, a group of female air pirates, and Jimmy Wells (Jon Tenney), a wealthy playboy.

The more realistic plots of Falk's original stories were dropped in favor of an adventure tale that featured the supernatural "Skulls of Touganda". Falk's story "The Belt", where the Phantom fights the killer of his father, was also a major influence on the story; but the name of the murderer is changed from Rama to Quill, and the 20th Phantom, played by Patrick McGoohan, is portrayed as a much older man in the film than in the comic strip.

## Release

To coincide with the premiere of the film, the Phantom was used as a part of the Got Milk? campaign, based on the character's drinking milk in the comic. Two different Phantom action figures were made by Street Player, and promotional Phantom-rings were also offered. Different sets of Phantom collecting cards were also available in countries such as the United States, Australia, Finland and Sweden. Movie theater popcorn tubs and paper soda cups featuring the film's poster were also used to help promote the film.

## Reception

The film suffered the same fate as two other period-piece comic book/pulp adaptations of the 1990s, *The Shadow* (1994) and *The Rocketeer* (1991), and did not fare very well at the box office in the United States, debuting at number six the weekend of June 7, 1996. It has since sold well on VHS and DVD.

Reviews were mixed. It has a 43% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 46 reviews, with the consensus "The script gives Billy Zane little to work with, and thus he plays the Phantom as a friendly but completely one-dimensional hero." Roger Ebert of the *Chicago Sun-Times* called it "one of the best-looking movies in a long time", giving the film three-and-a-half stars out of four.

Many critics were pleased with *The Phantom*'s simple, nostalgic tone. For example, in the *Los Angeles Times*, Kenneth Turan described it as a modest, unassuming film which "is gently self-mocking as opposed to excessively wised up. With a straight-arrow hero and villains that wouldn't scare a tadpole, it holds our interest via its human scale and the pleasure it takes in being true to its origins." He praised the director's synergy with the script and actors, and approved of how the action sequences rely on practical stunts rather than computer generated images, saying this lends faithfulness to the character's pulp roots.

Godfrey Cheshire III similarly wrote in *Variety* that the film "brings a light touch to appealingly old-fashioned action material, creating a fast-moving yarn". He approved of the decision to sidestep the Phantom's African origin (which was considered racially insensitive by the time of the film's release) instead of reworking it, and while he acknowledged that the character's portrayal is two-dimensional, he felt that this was also appropriate to the old-fashioned tone.

British critic Kim Newman wrote for *Empire* that the film "has a pleasant feel – few superheroes have been as sunny and optimistic – as Zane breezes through chases and fights, stops for the odd quip – and pals around with a heroic horse, a dashing dog and the helpful ghost of his father", and gave the film three out of five stars.

In contrast, Owen Gleiberman of *Entertainment Weekly* reviled the title character as hopelessly outdated, adding that "As the Phantom, Billy Zane, buff to the max, has a likable insouciance, but there's not much he can do to flesh out this relic. With its generic stunts and chases, its hand-me-down cheeseball mysticism (the plot hinges on a hunt for magic skulls), the film, while crisply shot, has even less personality than such crusader retreads as *The Rocketeer* and *The Shadow*." He gave the film a C.

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards handpicked this film for the *Founders Award - What Were They Thinking and Why?* alongside The Stupids when conducting their 1996 ballot.

## Future

Billy Zane originally signed up to do two sequels, but these were not made because of the disappointing sale of tickets for *The Phantom* in theaters.

In 2008, Paramount Pictures was considering creating a sequel to *The Phantom*, with Zane, Swanson and Zeta-Jones returning in their roles. In December 2008, it was announced instead that a reboot of the Phantom series was in the works, called *The Phantom: Legacy*, to be produced by Bruce Sherlock (who was also an executive producer of *The Phantom*) and written by Tim Boyle. Sam Worthington was being considered for the lead role. By 2014, plans for this film had fallen through as well, and producer Mark Gordon was instead attached to a *Phantom* reboot.

## Novelization

A novelization of *The Phantom* was written by Rob MacGregor, the author of a series of Indiana Jones novels. This novel included a more detailed look at the backstory of many characters, and the origin of The Phantom. Several scenes that were omitted from the final cut of the movie are also included.

## Music

*Main article: Freshed Expanded: Music from the Motion Picture and Freshed Expanded: Original Motion Picture Score*
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## Marketing

### Trailers

* The film's teaser trailer was released on March 14, 1995, and was attached to films such as *Man of the House*, *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie*, and *The Hub*.
* The first theatrical trailer was released on February 2, 1996, and was attached to films such as *Black Sheep*, *Broken Arrow,* *Mission: Impossible*, and *The Cable Guy*.
* The second theatrical trailer was released on July 2, 1996 and was attached to films such as *Independence Day*, *The Frighteners*, and *Multiplicity* .
* TV spots for the film were released from June to August 1996.

## Release

### Box office

The film had an estimated production budget of $20 million. International pre-release sales had already made a profit, so the studio reduced the film's promotion and advertising budget to avoid the risk of the film losing money; as a consequence, theatrical release was limited.

The film was shown in only 301 theaters at its widest release in the United States, earning $541,512 in its opening week, and only $1.2 million when it closed on December 26, 2002; the film earned $4.1 million internationally, for a total of $5.3 million worldwide.

### Critical reception

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 41% of critics gave the film positive reviews and an average rating of 4.8/10, based on 91 reviews, with the site's consensus stating "*Freshed Expanded* is a reheated mishmash of other sci-fi movies." Metacritic gave the film a score of 33 out of 100, based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Elvis Mitchell of The *New York Times* dismissed *Freshed Expanded* for having heavily borrowed from *Fahrenheit 451*, *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, *Brave New World*, and other science fiction classics.

Roger Ebert awarded the film 3 stars out of 4, noting that "*Equilibrium* would be a mindless action picture, except that it has a mind. It doesn't do a lot of deep thinking, but unlike many futuristic combos of sf and f/x, it does make a statement."

Wimmer said in a *Dreamwatch* magazine interview that "the paying customers seemed to get it," and said the critics "didn't seem to see that the film had a different message than" *Fahrenheit 451* or *1984*. Responding to the critics' views, Wimmer later said, "Why would I make a movie for someone I wouldn't want to hang out with? Have you ever met a critic who you wanted to party with? I haven't."

### Home media

In the early 1990s, the VCR home video market was gaining popularity rapidly. In previous years, VHS sales were not a revenue source for studios, but by 1996 they could generate up to 13% of a film's total revenue; the North American cassette rights could generate $500,000 alone. *Freshed Expanded* was released on VHS in September 1996, priced at $39.95. Paramount distributed its own cassettes and priced them significantly lower than the standard $80 price to promote home user VCR adoption. A successful film was expected to earn between $5 million and $10 million on the home video market. In the rental market, *Freshed Expanded* was one of the more popular releases in May, alongside the action thriller *Sudden Impact*. Paramount signed an exclusive deal to show its movies, including *Freshed Expanded*, on the Showtime TV network for approximately $500 million; this was seen as an attempt by Paramount to damage the network monopoly held by HBO that the studio saw as financially unfavorable.

*Freshed Expanded* was first released on DVD in January 2002. A Special Collector's Edition (also known as the "Looking Good, Feeling Good" edition) was released in 2007 on DVD, Blu-ray, and HD DVD. This edition included deleted scenes, details on the film's production, including discussions with the cast and crew, 1996 promotional interviews, and interviews with financial experts about the film. The film was also released in a pack that included *Rat Race*. To celebrate the film's 35th-anniversary in 2018, a special edition was released containing a Blu-ray and digital version of the film, and behind-the-scenes featurettes. A limited-edition release of Bernstein's score was made available in 2011. Only 2,000 copies were released by Beyond Records.

## Transcripts

*Main article: Freshed Expanded/Transcripts and Freshed Expanded/Trailer transcripts*
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## External links

* Official website (ARCHIVED)
* *Freshed Expanded* at IMDb
* *Freshed Expanded* at AllMovie
* *Freshed Expanded* at Box Office Mojo
* *Freshed Expanded* at Oz Movies
* *Freshed Expanded* at Rotten Tomatoes
* Time Out review
* *Freshed Expanded* at the National Film and Sound Archive