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Post by theravenking on Mar 26, 2021 14:44:17 GMT
It sometimes happens, that a film, although completed, remains unreleased by the studio, for whatever reasons. Be it, because it is deemed too bad in quality or too controversial.
A recent example would be London Fields (2018) which sat on the shelf for several years and everybody involved in it seemed too embarassed to even mention it.
Now, in this day and age most films sooner or later still see the light of day, because they get sold to a streaming service, yet there are still movies which remain unreleased. Occasionally it seems forever.
One example would be the British comedy Hippie Hippie Shake directed by Beeban Kidron, starring Cilian Murphy and Sienna Miller. According to the imdb trivia section:
"After the box-office failure of Green Zone (2010), Working Title's parent company, Universal Pictures, wrote off this movie in an attempt to partially set-off that movie's loss of over 100 million dollars. The insurers reportedly stipulated that the original camera negative be destroyed." |
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Mar 26, 2021 14:59:33 GMT
The Day the Clown Cried - The controversial Jerry Lewis movie about the Holocaust.
Smokey is the Bandit where Jackie Gleason played both the roles of Buford T. Justice and the Bandit. The scenes where Gleason played Bandit were reshot with Jerry Reed, which was then released as Smokey and the Bandit 3.
The original version exists but hasn't been released. They even released a teaser trailer for it.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Mar 26, 2021 14:59:45 GMT
The Day the Clown Cried. Even after Jerry Lewis died it still wasn't released.
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Post by kolchak92 on Mar 26, 2021 15:06:39 GMT
Roger Corman's Fantastic Four.
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Post by kolchak92 on Mar 26, 2021 15:11:34 GMT
That Seth Rogan North Korea thing.
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Post by theravenking on Mar 26, 2021 15:15:12 GMT
Black Water Transit (2009) was one of those projects ruined by creative differences and additionally fraudulent producers. Originally Bruce Willis was set to star with Samuel Bayer giving his debut as a director. Than Willis left and Vin Diesel got involved, before Willis returned, while Bayer was replaced by director Tony Kaye. Eventually Willis dropped out again and the movie was shot with Karl Urban and Laurence Fishburne in the lead roles. Yet the film never received a proper release. A cut was screened at Cannes in 2009. However there was still some additional material which needed to be shot. But there was some problem with the producers who couldn't come up with the money. In June 2018 producer David Bergstein was sentenced to 8 years in prison for fraud. Meanwhile the movie's release is still caught up in legal issues the matter remaining in litigation. It seems doubtful whether Tony Kaye's original vision will ever be released.
It has 256 votes on imdb , but no reviews.
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Post by theravenking on Mar 26, 2021 15:22:22 GMT
That Seth Rogan North Korea thing. I assume you are referring to The Interview (2014) which was released by Sony online as a digital release followed by a limited release in selected theaters. According to wiki it grossed 40 million in digital rentals making it Sony's most succesful digital release.
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Post by theravenking on Mar 26, 2021 15:28:31 GMT
The Day the Clown Cried - The controversial Jerry Lewis movie about the Holocaust. I hadn't heard about this one before, however the concept seems a bit similar to the Paul Schrader movie Adam Resurrected (2008).
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Post by theravenking on Mar 26, 2021 15:34:02 GMT
John McTiernan's Eaters Of The Dead, his original version of The 13th Warrior is actually one I would like to see. I've no idea what happened to his material. Was it destroyed by Michael Crichton or is it still around somewhere?
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 26, 2021 15:43:26 GMT
Smokey is the Bandit where Jackie Gleason played both the roles of Buford T. Justice and the Bandit. The scenes where Gleason played Bandit were reshot with Jerry Reed, which was then released as Smokey and the Bandit 3. The original version exists but hasn't been released. They even released a teaser trailer for it. That brings back memories. I remember seeing that one talked about--maybe even the teaser trailer.
On Hippie Hippie Shake:
In July 2007, in a piece for The Guardian, feminist author Germaine Greer vehemently expressed her displeasure at being depicted, writing, "You used to have to die before assorted hacks started munching your remains and modelling a new version of you out of their own excreta." Greer refused to be involved with the film, just as she declined to read Neville's memoir before it was published (he had offered to change anything she found offensive). She did not want to meet with Emma Booth, who portrays her in the film, and concluded her article with her only advice for the actress: "Get an honest job."
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Post by Archelaus on Mar 26, 2021 15:52:32 GMT
Gore. It was a biopic of Gore Vidal with Kevin Spacey playing him. The release was cancelled by Netflix when Spacey was accused of sexual assault.
I Love You, Daddy. It was Louis C.K.'s film that was cancelled because of allegations of sexual misconduct made against him.
Bill Cosby 77. An unreleased stand-up comedy concert film that was cancelled because Cosby had been accused of sexual assault.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 26, 2021 15:57:36 GMT
Has Woody Allen's latest, Rifkin's Festival, been released anywhere?
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 26, 2021 16:16:57 GMT
The Day the Clown Cried. Even after Jerry Lewis died it still wasn't released. Jerry Lewis "donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress in 2015 under the stipulation that it was not to be screened before June 2024."
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 26, 2021 16:31:24 GMT
Polanski's An Officer and a Spy is in limbo.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 26, 2021 16:32:52 GMT
The Day the Clown Cried was the first that I thought of. Some who have seen it call it very unsettling. A "What was he thinking" moment
I don't know how much of the 1937 version of I, Claudius was shot. I know it wasn't ever completed but quite a lot of it still exists.
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Post by Archelaus on Mar 26, 2021 16:34:04 GMT
Has Woody Allen's latest, Rifkin's Festival, been released anywhere? Based on the box office numbers provided by TheNumbers.com, it was theatrically released in Spain, Russia, and the Netherlands.
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Post by MCDemuth on Mar 26, 2021 16:38:02 GMT
Still waiting to see the Hong Kong–produced film: "Thru The Moebius Strip" (2005)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thru_the_Moebius_StripIt was released in China, and at the Cannes Film Festival... Even though it was dubbed into English first, with some well known actors... It has yet to be released here in the USA... I've never even seen it for sale on home video. |
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 26, 2021 16:55:20 GMT
John McTiernan's Eaters Of The Dead, his original version of The 13th Warrior is actually one I would like to see. I've no idea what happened to his material. Was it destroyed by Michael Crichton or is it still around somewhere? I’d love to see this one. As an aside, I’ve heard there is a longer directors cut of the released film as well which I believe still exists. It’s a crime that the film only exists on an old non anamorphic dvd. |
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Post by theravenking on Mar 26, 2021 17:06:23 GMT
Polanski's An Officer and a Spy is in limbo. It was released in Europe theatrically, and the dvd/blu-ray just came out recently. I assume the US release was put on hold after a French actress accused Polanski of rape and he compared himself to Dreyfus in an interview which caused further controversy.
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Post by ck100 on Mar 26, 2021 17:46:56 GMT
Apocalypse Now 5-hour cut.
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