the movie in which there is supposedly no US audience interest

[realthog]

You may recall a few months ago there was a bit of a flap regarding the movie Creation, which concerns itself with Charles Darwin's dilemma over the implications of his discovery of the principle of evolution by natural selection.

Despite respected leads Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, despite picking up accolades at various festivals, and despite the obvious topicality of its subject matter, the movie had significant difficulties finding a US distributor. Could this be because potential distributors were worried (justifiably or not) about the possibility of a major kerfuffle from religious extremists? Or could it be, as the faux-Xtian right maintained, because no one in their right minds in this country would want to go see a boring biopic about a long-dead scientist?

Well, this morning, just after 9.00, I received from the NYC branch of the Center for Inquiry an RSVP e-mail invite to a preview screening of the movie on Monday evening. It took me a few minutes to consult with Pam as to whether we'd both like to go, but I wrote back fairly quickly with my response: yes, we'd like a couple of tickets, oh yes, pretty please, yes we definitely would, you bet.

We were too late: already, after a matter of minutes on a Saturday morning, all the tickets had been snaffled.

Some lack of interest, eh?

Comments

[adarkjewel.livejournal.com]

I sense this film is going to be issued as a "limited release" (i.e., shown only in LA and NYC). It might get some play at smaller, independent theatres elsewhere, but most theatre owners in the flyover states would rather make money off the tweens who are willing to watch movies like Twilight and The Hangover 10 times in a row.

I saw a preview of this film on Letterman and admit to being intrigued. I'm particularly interested in the relationship of Darwin and his very devout wife.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I sense this film is going to be issued as a "limited release" (i.e., shown only in LA and NYC).

That's exactly what it's getting. However, Pam tells me one of the main Sunday-morning shows gave it a full segment yesterday (she said it looked like a wunnerful movie), so perhaps it'll be one of those initially limited releases which -- like Memento (to choose the first example that comes to mind) -- bullies its way, as it were, into a wider circle of venues.