Will it be a typical Hollywood release or perhaps it might be released with select countries and theaters? It's a pretty unknown story taking place in the CW so I imagine a lot of folks overseas won't relate to it nor care much (sadly as it's a really good story).
shareYes it'll be released overseas. It's due out in Sept in the UK, not sure about elsewhere. It'll probably do better in the foreign market due to MM's popularity. Plus other countries don't have psychological hang ups over US history.
shareWill it get a Chinese release? There's always the claim the Chinese won't go to movies with black storylines, not to mention the insurrection won't be PC in China but with the Chinese backing you'd think STX would be favored to get a release.
shareThat's hard to say. I should think it would all depend on how the Chinese censors choose to spin it. Possibly it could be spun as a tale of poor farmers unifying against rebellion and remaining loyal to the State (which it essentially is, when you break it down). Considering the rather socialist nature of the Knight's company, it might play, who knows? The Chinese market has opened up significantly in the last few years so I suppose anything's possible.
shareI'm very curious about this
shareinteresting
though surely the british and I'm sure the french must have had films regarding slavery or their very own Civil War/Revolution.
It has been being offered by the distributors in my country (NZ) , since well before the U.S. release.
Of course we are a Western native English speaking country.
China only takes a small number of US films so it is unlikely to be picked for a LEGAL release there.
Thanks for that
can you recall other big history films set in the US doing well in NZ? I'm curious whether it's something of interest or simply a bore for audiences there
As a native English speaking country we get all the big releases - and many of the smaller ones - UK, US, Oz, not much Canadian stuff (though "Remember" is currently playing in theatres), and quite a bit of foreign language stuff like the German Labyrinth of Lies/Silence, which got a big push here.
Historicals tend to do better, and at least FSoJ won't have the political opposition it had in the States.
It has been delayed (was to come out in August here) - presumably because of its poor showing in the US - now due to be released beginning of September.
UPDATE
Trailer screened before "Jason Bourne" Sunday 31st July in my small town (50,000 people). I know it is going into an even smaller town (10,000 people) locally.
It was released in Australia on August 25th 2016 - after the date was put back many times over at least two months
Many cinemas had posters for it and took them down without scheduling the film, its release in Melbourne and Sydney is fairly limited
it was the 3rd worst grossing film in Australia this week and it is generally believed that it will not have a long run.
There were only 20 people in the cinema when I saw it - a friend went to another session at another theatre and said it was only 50% full
I'm seeing it tomorrow anyway.
shareIt was released in Bulgaria, I presume in all Europe as well. It was a good story indeed which made me look up for more information about the post CW reality. It stirred some thoughts about how the world dynamics have been similar in different ends of the world.
In 1878 in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) a Russian-Turkish war put the end of a 500 years Turkish occupation (depicted as "slavery" in literature and poetry, yet very different in it's nature). It was presented as an act of rescuing "slav brothers", but was a business war of the Russian Emperor. Of course it was preceded by a large local movement for independence, many rebellions, the brutal crackdown of which resonated all over Europe. The hopes for restoring the state's integrity melted soon. Ethnic Bulgarians were first united in a state that very much covered the actual dispersion of the people, but soon the great forces withdrew this decision by a latter contract. So Bulgarians had to fight for decades to achieve a partial success in getting back the lands inhabited by their people, and the WWI and WWII military unions were a means of achieving this.
Sorry for the details but now you can see the correlations. So people relate to history in mysterious ways.