Earlier this month, we alerted you to the fact that the long-delayed DEAD OF NIGHT had finally received a release date… well, in Italy anyway. Even then, not a solid date, but a premiere at an Italian convention/film festival. Around that same time, the folks over at the Official Dead of Night Production Blog implied that a U.S. distributor would be announced soon… And as of now, we’re still waiting.
The blog has been updated, this time with a Q+A with director Kevin Munroe, who addresses various issues surrounding the film. A small sampling:
On a U.S. release: “There hasn’t been much movement on American marketing of the movie, simply because there isn’t a studio attached yet.”
On when we might see a trailer: “We did a sneak peek one for Comicon last year in San Diego. It was a mix of trailer-ish shots with behind-the-scenes footage of us making the movie, plus a snippet of a scene where Dylan and Marcus encounter one of the nastier creatures in the movie.”
“Then, as a lot of these films do, we have to do a couple more trailers for International Film Markets – namely Berlin Film Festival/Cannes, American Film Market, etc. These are places where, behind very closed doors, international buyers can see the film and decide if they want to pay to show the movie in their territory (i.e. Italy, France, England, wherever).”
“… the big one that is still up in the air is the THEATRICAL TRAILER – i.e. the one we’ll see before another movie in a theatre. That one is still under construction, and we’ll have to work with whatever studio gets the movie domestically here in the United States as well. And that decision will be coming very soon.”
So it looks as though we might be seeing a promo trailer very soon, as the Cannes Film Festival is right around the corner. (That’s of course assuming the trailer leaks onto the ‘net.) Whether or not you want to take the imminent announcement of a domestic distributor talk with a grain of salt is up to you. (I know I take it with a sack of the stuff.)
DEAD OF NIGHT stars Brandon Routh, Peter Stormare, Sam Huntington, Anita Briem, Kurt Angle, and Taye Diggs.
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