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Feb 15, 2024 · The new take on Road House started to move forward at MGM in late 2021, but by March of 2022, Amazon acquired the iconic movie studio and, along with it, this remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze ...
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Updated: Jan 26, 2024 1:06 am
Posted: Jan 25, 2024 1:19 pm
Road House director Doug Liman is boycotting the SXSW premiere of his movie in protest at Amazon MGM refusing to give it a theatrical release.
Liman wrote a guest column for Deadline, explaining why he will not be attending the premiere of Road House, his remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze feature, despite considering it one of the best films of his career, with the overarching reason being Amazon's decision to bypass a theatrical release and send it straight to streaming.
"When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won't be attending," Liman announced. "The movie is fantastic, maybe my best, and I'm sure it will bring the house down and possibly have the audience dancing in their seats during the end credits. But I will not be there."
With these reasons, Liman presented his argument for why Road House should get a theatrical release and even asked Amazon if he could sell the movie to a studio that would put it in theaters, but the studio declined. The refusal to budge means the film will roll out exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video streaming platform.
Liman said that he is not opposed to streaming movies, considering he has made them before and continues to make them, but is "opposed to Amazon gutting MGM and its theatrical business, as I would have been had Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and then gutted its newsroom (he did the opposite)."
He concluded: "A computer doesn't know what it is like to share the experience of laughing and cheering and crying with a packed audience in a dark theater – and if Amazon has its way, future audiences won't know either."
Road House will debut on Prime Video on March 21. The new take follows Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter, who takes a job at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys where he soon discovers things are not as they seem. The film, also stars Daniela Melchior, Conor McGregor, and Billy Magnussen.
Feb 15, 2024 · Part of the stipulation that she gave to Gyllenhaal and Liman, in order to get a theatrical release, was that they would have to make the film for $60 million. The other option was to get $85 ...
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Jan 25, 2024 · The “Swingers” and “Go” director says he signed up to make this “Road House” for MGM as a theatrical release — and then Amazon bought MGM for $8.5 billion.
Jan 24, 2024 · Liman signed on to make Road House for MGM in 2021, prior to Amazon buying the studio. After its purchase of MGM, Amazon touted its intention to invest $1 billion in theatrical movies.
Feb 15, 2024 · The Road House remake will not get a theatrical release, which has caused a rift between Amazon and the film's director. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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Feb 10, 2024 · Road House is finally set to release on March 21, 2024. The remake will come 35 years after the original film hit theaters and 18 years after the ill-fated direct-to-DVD sequel Road House 2 .
