July 12, 2007
TWC acquires multi-territory rights to Benny Chan's Invisible Target
(Posted In Action Asia Martial Arts Random Geek Talk )
The Weinstein Co. has picked up multi-territory rights to "Invisible Target" an ultra-violent Hong Kong-China actioner from helmer Benny Chan ("New Police Story".)The Weinstein Company acquired rights in North America, Australia and South Africa from producer and sales shingle Universe International.
The $8 million pic will go out on release in parts of Asia next week with Universe handling Hong Kong, Poly Bona giving it a very wide 500-print outing in mainland China, Innoform in Singapore and Grand Brilliance in Malaysia. TWC has not yet detailed its plans for the pic's release.
Asian Variety
If I were to hazard a guess about TWC's plans for this movie I could be a smart-ass and say they'd sit on it and it would never see the light of day on our shores. But, a glimmer of hope is that they take this title and put it out, at least a DVD release, through their Dragon Dynasty label. A couple years from now. After we've had it for that long on R3 disc.
Ahem.
» Posted by Mack at July 12, 2007 10:56 PM
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They gave SPL a really quick and absolutely kick-ass DVD release (under the title KILL ZONE but whatever) so why should they even consider going back to their old douchbag ways?
» Posted by Caterpillar at July 13, 2007 12:13 AM
It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks !!!
And if you know the TWC, then enough said.
» Posted by ASIAN FLIX at July 13, 2007 09:29 AM
TWC is doing great on DVD release.
However,TWC is still terrible at doing theatrical release (see what happen to "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane")
» Posted by mary at July 13, 2007 12:32 PM
you forgot to add to the part about holding/sitting on it: leaning on legit import retail outlets selling the Asian non-bootleg DVDs thus preventing nerds like me from even having the legal Asian edition Region 3 DVD.
» Posted by glenn at July 13, 2007 04:28 PM
This is also something that they only did back in their Disney Days. I have yet to hear something along those lines from their new company.
» Posted by Caterpillar at July 13, 2007 05:08 PM
yeah, point taken; the Dragon Dynasty ones look decent too.
As long as I can legally buy the Region 3 DVDs as soon as they are legally released in Hong Kong through online retailers, I do not care anymore what they do...
well as a film fan, I care but not as much.
» Posted by glenn at July 16, 2007 05:28 PM
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