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03Jun2009

Watch the Opening Two Minutes of 'Moon'

DateWednesday, June 3, 2009 at 8:01AM
The new movie Moon is kind of lucky, actually. I've seen some online complaints about its release schedule, because Sony Pictures Classics will start out very small with it and build it to a few hundred theaters or so. The flipside is that international distribution is pretty thorough, so obviously there's some belief in the film.

But the complaints forget one thing: Limited releases create a craving. That's why you see ridiculous per-theater averages for movies in fewer theaters. The hope is that the first weekend is huge in New York and Los Angeles, and that will leverage some theaters is smaller metro areas not already included in the run of engagement.

But the studio would lose its ass putting a small, psychological sci-fi movie like Moon in 3,000 theaters all at once. There's just not enough of an audience initially to find a suitable return that way. So if you see it and you like it, tell some people; that's the only way the word will get out about this one.

Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut at the tail end of a three-year lunar project, and he's been up there all alone the whole time. Nearing the completion of his tour of duty, unusual things start to happen to him that jeopardize his upcoming departure. Could it be space madness?

Here are the first two minutes of Moon, directed by Duncan Jones:

Moon opens on June 12th in the two major film markets, and on the 19th it will hit San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Chicago. Beginning July 3rd, it will be in over a dozen other new markets. Check out the official site for updates.

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Reader Comments (1)

An interesting movie description at http://www.artistinterviews.com/web/newsAndEvents/news.php

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLiber Ferreira

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