Israel follows up on Serenity big screen cancellation
POSTED BY: ZoRAXE
UPDATED: Sunday, November 13, 2005 11:10
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Serenity is NOT showing in Israel. I spoke to the distributors their myself yesterday. It is also being pulled for a few more countries, lists to follow. Mexico was due to open tomorrow, it has been canceled also.
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I think you're right. I can't believe this is happening but it seems they aren't showing Serenity in Israel. I asked someone who would know and... Can't begin to tell you how insanely pissed this makes me.
If I had zillions of dollars to blow, I would buy everyone in Israel the gorram'd FF DVD and then rent out every cinema in the holy land many weekends over and have FREE open viewings for anyone who wanted to see it.
If only...
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Originally posted by XeroGravity:
I think you're right. I can't believe this is happening but it seems they aren't showing Serenity in Israel. I asked someone who would know and... Can't begin to tell you how insanely pissed this makes me.
If I had zillions of dollars to blow, I would buy everyone in Israel the gorram'd FF DVD and then rent out every cinema in the holy land many weekends over and have FREE open viewings for anyone who wanted to see it.
If only...
Just use it to fund us a sequal and screw the heretics! :-)
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The following is a direct translation from the website text: "following its apparent failure in the US, and despite a very successful early screening in the Icon 2005 SciFi festival, 'Globus Grop' deliver bad news to Wheddon fans: the commercial distribution of "Serenity" in cinemas in Israel has been cancelled. Instead, however, Globus promise to hurry with a fast distribution of the movie DVD coming soon"....
needless to say, we are all pissed off here.... >:-(
The order, is officially from Universal, and knowing the local distributers here they would not have gone to the effort of translating the movie as was in the case of the early paying screening (which was a smashing success) unless they were expecting full commercial distribution here in Israel...
looks like there will be some additional special screenings in the upcoming future during the numerous cinema festivals we have here (and/or fan conventions, though Icon is the biggest annually)... but it still isn't the same... :(
One must wonder though: how does a movie like serenity get the boot, and yet lameass frikkin' "mindhunters" (budget: 27M, domestic gross: 4.5M [!]) gets worldwide distribution?!
"The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilence"
- Admiral Tolwyn
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I think the survival of the show depends on it being shown in Israel.
Little patch of land full of people under siege. Smells like rebel fever. Betcha FF and Serenity (if the story line is told in order) would resonate there.
Just a theory.
XG
No such thing as Israel. The "Israel-that-was" is being debated with guns, pens, and politicians."
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