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I read something by the creators, saying that the movie's box office was so poor because so many theaters that ordered it didn't show it. He implied it was the theaters' fault.
And here I thought it was because everybody other than the studio already knows that Uwe Boll movies are heinous.
I just noticed - less than 100 posts to go. Off to bureaublahblah...
a computer faux pas caused about 5,500 extra copies of the BloodRayne film to be created and distributed to theaters that didn’t even want to show it.
Somehow, this fills me with schadenfreudic glee.
I read something by the creators, saying that the movie's box office was so poor because so many theaters that ordered it didn't show it. He implied it was the theaters' fault.
It was showing in 9 different theaters in the Memphis metro area a week ago. Hopefully with a cricket : ticket buyer ratio greater than 1:1 in each cinema.
The places where BloodRayne briefly showed around here (2 theaters I think - the Globe reviewer snarked that one of the surprises of seeing BloodRayne was having to go to Revere to do so; I call that above and beyond the call myself) only had like one show per day the last time I noticed.
According to an employee of the UltraStar cinema chain by way of Shacknews.com, a computer faux pas caused about 5,500 extra copies of the BloodRayne film to be created and distributed to theaters that didn’t even want to show it.
My first thought upon reading that was "Wouldn't that be all of them?"
Curse you, Uwe Boll, for coming to "prominence" when there's no MST3K to give you the treatment you deserve! Shakes Fist
O wow - I just had a Weebil and Bob moment without even trying.
My first thought upon reading that was "Wouldn't that be all of them?"
I think it showed in about 1500-2000 theaters.
I remain suspicious. I think someone in the chain of supply ordered the extra movies and shipped them to theaters that didn't want them, in the vain hope that it might actually get shown in a few of those theaters.
The producer or director was talking as if he thougth those 5500 copies i were supposed to go to those theaters....
I love the cricket:ticket ratio, Matt; is that yours?
So far as I know... I've never heard anyone say something like that before I made it up this morning.