I’ve seen the paperback version was released in the stores recently, covered with Diane Lane holding a shotgun, it looks like. My guess is that they’ll drop it in limited run and then DVD-it close to that. It’s a crowded movie summer. Weinstein and Co. have recently undergone a big change, breaking from Disney, Harvey and Bro. with a new company. My guess is they just don’t have the money to do the prints and press. Diane Lane’s “Untraceable” did untraceable business, probably HW is looking at that, along with Thomas Jane’s weak-performing “The Mist” and “Punisher” and the whatever-happened-to status of Mickey Rourke (not his plastic face, but his “who is this guy again?” persona), thinking is it worth it.
I know. You say, “Well, “Untraceable” did $65 mil total gross, foreign and domestic and dvd, what’s bad about that, Handsome?” And it is a very very good film for what it is. Really nice suspense, acting, directing, writing. Seen it a half dozen times already. That’s good.
- but to guys like HW….
But we all know how hard it is to market Mr. L on film as it is. “Get Shorty” had the advantage of good, well-known actors (Rene Russo had a hot string going at that time, too, don’t count her presence short). And they got it right, too; that didn’t hurt.
At the time of putting this together it was probably expected there’d be a wave of interest in Jane and Lane and Johnny Jackass (apparently completely gone from the film?), but it ain’t happened.
As I’m sure Mr. L has said more than once, “That’s Hollywood.”
PS: Did a search, nothing definite on the film anywhere. Found one trailer still up here, http://www.alltrailers.net/killshot.html, but others have been removed. Not even a poster at comingsoon.net. Rated R, too. Kind of thing like that gets you released in August, late, or September after the kids are gone from the theaters and back in school.
Not looking good.