![]() Last year Drafthouse Films unearthed the inept but feelgood 1987 martial arts pic Miami Connection and gave it a second life with theatrical, DVD & Blu-ray, VHS, and digital release. James Nguyen’s Birdemic lost money on its initial $10K budget but snagged a home media release through genre label Severin Films and hatched a sequel. curiosity, actually spawned a DVD/Blu-ray release, a book deal, and regular worldwide theatrical bookings. Tommy Wiseau‘s awful-some (that’s awful + awesome) The Room, which screened for ten years and became a spoon-throwing, celebrity-attracting one of a kind L.A. On the peripheries of the mainstream dance the campy breed of Verhoeven’s classic Showgirls, while over in Europe Uwe Boll’s built an entire cottage industry out of bad movies. Precedents for cult movie success are few but flashy. They’ve also booked Seattle hoping word of mouth from Findings’ Seattle Film Festival screening will bring ticket buyers out into the rainy Northwest to tap their curiosities. and NYC markets, is plotting a January 19 midnight movie debut in Cleveland. Panorama, a micro-distributor whose strategy includes opening features outside of the competitive L.A. “I think people want to be entertained – they don’t want to be hit over the head with informational movies about current events The Fifth Estate,” says Strutin, who first saw Fateful Findings when it came across his desk as a blind submission. Panorama co-founder Stuart Strutin is banking on the pic’s WTF factor to find the special kind of audience that delights in this kind of hot mess spectacle cinema. A cult following has incubated around its filmmaking flaws and idiosyncrasies, like Breen’s character’s predilection for getting naked and his habit of throwing laptops – 5,6, a dozen at a time – when frustrated. Breen and the pic, a sci-fi paranormal romance thriller about a novelist-turned-hacker who uncovers a government conspiracy while discovering his own repressed superpowers, got on hardcore cinephiles’ radar last year through film festival bookings and underground screenings with virtually no publicity effort in place.
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