![]() The US and international footprint expands again on December 14, when the film debuts on Netflix. The plan is to expand into the top 10 US markets and select international territories understood to include Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and Japan, starting on December 7. The UK partner is Curzon Cinemas, with whom Netflix has worked before and is collaborating on David Mackenzie’s TIFF opener Outlaw King, which opens theatrically this weekend in the US and UK.Īfter the announcement came out on Wednesday (31), attention turned to which titles might receive similar treatment in 2019, with the focus on Martin Scorsese’s mob epic The Irishman, Steven Soderbergh’s journalism drama The Laundromat, and Dee Rees’ crime mystery The Last Thing He Wanted.Īlfonso Cuaron’s Venice Golden Lion winner ROMA will open in exclusive limited theatrical engagements starting on November 21 in Los Angeles, New York and Mexico.Īdditional engagements on the Mexico City-set family drama starring Yalitza Aparicio are set for US markets and London, starting on November 29. In the US Netflix will work mostly outside the major circuits, with whom it maintains an uneasy relationship given its refusal to kowtow to traditional windows. In a significant strategy shift as it seeks a coveted first best picture Oscar nomination, Netflix has unveiled global theatrical release plans on awards contenders ROMA, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, and Bird Box.Īll three will receive awards-qualifying theatrical releases across the US and select international markets ahead of their global debuts on Netflix, and the goal is to remain in theatres for three to six weeks. Yet as the 280 million+ people around the world who are classed as having 'low-vision' or 'blind' already know' - if you have the will there is life to be had, sighted or not.Source: Courtesy of Carlos Somonte / Netflix This is an excellent film in a theater or at home, with a story that will touch at a core vulnerability that makes many of us uncomfortable. As is fitting a film who's protagonists are reliant on a life without vision, it is not full of bombastic CGI action sequences and instead wraps itself in a sense of horror that I found both terrifying and refreshing. It simply layers on another level of dread as the film proceeds towards it's conclusion. ![]() The way the film is split over different time periods is not a clever gimmick as has been the case with so much output over the last few years. With a run-time of just under 2 hours the film does enough and manages to intertwine these themes with the base horror and makes you care enough to take the journey through the fear with Sandra Bullock's Malorie and the rest of the cast who perform admirably. As you watch and come to understand (although not fully) the mechanics of the horror that is the basis of this post apocalyptic tale you find yourself wondering what would you do in a world where your eyes are your greatest weakness? Yes, perhaps more could have been done to fill out the concepts of family, parenthood, and connecting. In many ways this film is all the more terrifying because of society's reliance on seeing the world around them. ![]() ![]() The source material 'Bird Box' written by Josh Malerman was published in 2014. Much has been said about how this is a 'blind' version of 'A Quiet Place' - it is most definitely not. For a world which has become so sight-orientated there are times when the sense of dread you feel whilst watching Bird Box is almost incapacitating.
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