Bad news for the fate of Lucky McKee’s THE WOODS, his follow up to the outstanding MAY. Seems that just like corporate mergers can screw people out of their jobs, studio mergers can screw films out of distribution. Here’s a snippet from a recent LA Times article:
“The Woods” was a completed United Artists movie when owner MGM was merged into Sony. United
Artists had planned to release both “The Woods” and “Romance & Cigarettes” last summer, but the distribution plans were scrapped when the deal closed.
“There isn’t a day that goes by when we don’t think about our movie and try to figure out a way to generate some momentum for it,” says Sean Furst, who produced “The Woods.”
You can click here to read the full article, but the long and the short of it is this – don’t plan to see THE WOODS anytime soon.
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