Ultimate Dolph

lt.brannigan wrote:Dish then theater... that strategy never makes any sense to me.

It's the theatre release that is an excuse to promote the film on every other medium...
They make no profit on these limited release (making a couple thousands $$ at best), selling the rights to Dish, iTunes, Netflix and others must be quite profitable in comparison.


EDIT:
Chinese character posters:

Jox wrote:Supposedly on Dish satellite TV first starting next week (May 25), then limited theatrical and VOD release on June 29...
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/inde ... ack-water/

Poster

Higher resolution image:
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Jox wrote:

lt.brannigan wrote:Dish then theater... that strategy never makes any sense to me.

It's the theatre release that is an excuse to promote the film on every other medium...
They make no profit on these limited release (making a couple thousands $$ at best), selling the rights to Dish, iTunes, Netflix and others must be quite profitable in comparison.

Financially it makes sense, but it wasn't too long ago that theaters were throwing hissy fits over some movies being made available for home viewing so close to the theatrical window.

Obviously they have made some concessions over it, but at the time it was extremely controversial.

Malaysian theatre lobby

Malaysian tickets for premiere screening today

I wish the US had tickets like that... it would be fun to make a movie scrapbook with those.

Jox wrote:

Jox wrote:Supposedly on Dish satellite TV first starting next week (May 25), then limited theatrical and VOD release on June 29...
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/inde ... ack-water/

Poster

Higher resolution image:
https://i1.wp.com/teaser-trailer.com/wp ... Poster.jpg

Theatrical version with billing block:


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Not a great review from Hollywood Reporter, but it's not surprise, they're not the target audience
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/revie ... er-1114470


BW is being released on 90 screens in Malaysia (which is much more than UNISOL 3 & 4 got)!


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Part 1 of director Pasha Patriki's Q&A for German distributor Koch Media
https://www.facebook.com/KochFilms/vide ... 092685319/

As said, BLACK WATER is now available in the US on Dish Cinema before its theatrical & VOD release next month:
https://www.mydish.com/pay-per-view/dishcinema

Backcover of the German edition, which apparently features greetings from Dolph as a bonus

Which almost certainly means that there are now several alternatives if I want to watch it now.