I’ve reported on the long, strange multi-year trips movies like Margaret and Zyzzyx Road took to finally get released to the public, but I don’t think any of those sagas compare to All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, a film that originally debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and will finally get a U.S. release in 2013 according to Deadline.
Jonathan Levine has had hits with 50/50 and Warm Bodies, but before that he directed All the Boys Love Mandy Lane as his debut film starring Amber Heard and Anson Mount. Though The Weinstein Company acquired the rights for $3.5 million and a deal to release it on 800 screens at the festival, TWC later got cold feet and sold the rights to the film to a company that shortly afterward went bankrupt. However, Tom Quinn, who saw the film and believed in its potential back in 2006 while he was working at Magnolia is now the co-president of Radius-TWC, the VOD branch of The Weinstein Company, has bought the rights back and now will release the film on VOD and theatrically in the top 50 U.S. markets.
Once again, a VOD/multi-platform release offers an alternative for a film that might not be a big enough moneymaker to get a national release. I’ve always been a proponent of how much VOD has to offer the industry, and this is just another example of a movie in limbo that will finally get a U.S. release mainly because of VOD.
As for the film’s plot? IMDb provides the following description: “A group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane, a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.” Sounds like a classic 1980s-style horror movie plot, doesn’t it?
Here’s the trailer for the film from its UK release several years ago:
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