'Repo!' Opening Weekend Locations and New Clips

I was wondering about Repo! The Genetic Opera the other day while attending the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. There were plenty of similarly peculiar films from all over the world there, and I thought, with two weeks before the official opening, it would've been a natural fit. Unfortunately, Lionsgate is holding onto this one pretty tightly, and they have an exact plan for what they want to do with it.I asked around a bit and learned that Repo! will open in four markets on November 7th, so if you're looking for it and you can't get to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, or the famed Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, you're out of luck.Hopefully Lionsgate will platform it out after that, and they are taking the film on a little cross-country tour beginning November 10th, so you'll have other opportunities. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that this bizarre-looking flick isn't buried by the publicity blitz that accompanies a lot of other November movies.We've mentioned the film a few times here at The Big Picture, so there's no need to regurgitate all the specifics, but it's a futuristic goth musical about organ harvesting and repossession and it stars Alexa Vega, Paul Sorivno, Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Anthony Head, and the oh so operatic Sarah Brightman.We've got a couple scenes for you now, including the opening sequence, which is animated and covers a lot of the back story, and then one of the songs from the film, featuring performances by Brightman and Vega.
Video courtesy of Worst Previews
"Chase the Morning" courtesy of My SpaceYeah, it looks weird, but weird can be good. I'll keep you updated if there are other release dates coming our way.

Comments

[whatshisname]

Thanks for the posting, Colin! This looks like it may have major "cool" potential. Hope we don't have to wait too long to get it here in AZ. It would have been a good fit for the Sci-Fi/ Horror, it's true and yet I can't help but feel the whole festival scene in the Phoenix area is really starting to slide off the rails (I'm way off the point now, I know) but the SFF, the PFF and now this last one.....lots of things that make ya go, hmmmm?

back on point, it sounds like Lionsgate has a master plan with this flick so, even if we were on the festival map, we weren't going to get it, I know.