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Why Will “Bedeviled” Be Released in Germany First?
Germany isn’t big in the horror genre these days. And they even ban and censor horror movies. Still, the new movie “Bedeviled” about an evil app that kills people will have it’s first wide release on March 23rd 2017 in Germany.
Of course as a German, this is exciting to me, getting to see this before the rest of the world. Still, I wonder why an American movie with American cast in English is released in Germany. So I decided to investigate.
Step One: Reading Up On the Movie
My first step was to check out if I can find any direct info as to why Bedeviled will come out here first. Read some news articles. Went into the depths of google. The only info I found was they screened it for distributors in Berlin. In the end, Ascot Elite picked it up. That’s the reason why it will be sold in Germany at all. But why did they screen it for German distributors only?
Step Two: Similar Cases?
So I decided to search for similar cases. The first one I found is Battle of the Damned from 2013, a horror film by Christopher Hatton, starring Dolph Lundgren. It got a limited release in Germany, before then going wide in the Czech Republic around 5 weeks later. And it took around 6 more months until it got released in the USA. So Bedeviled‘s release is not the only case.
Another case are the big Marvel Blockbusters. They all came out overseas up to a week in advance. For Blockbusters, that’s the case because by now the foreign market is very important. It brings a lot of money.
Having the foreigners see it first puts new hype on the US release (especially if everybody outside the US loves the movie). And, adding to that, the foreign market is lucrative.
Those are all valid reasons to release a small indie horror on DVD in Germany before anywhere else. There is another reason though. The foreign market could serve for testing purposes; release it outside first, then change things that didn’t do well with the audiences.
Step Three: Interpretation
Since there is no hard evidence about this practice, we have to start guessing, or interpreting. It can be to build hype, make money, or for testing purposes. They release it in Germany, see how it does. Then they bring it to distributors in the US, advertise the German sales. The distributors can then apply what they’ve learned to find out how they should best distribute it in America. This is my best guess.
What is your interpretation? Why not release it in the US first. Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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