{"id":6835,"date":"2013-10-24T19:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:01:28","slug":"frozen-ground-the-distribution-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/24\/frozen-ground-the-distribution-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Ground: The Distribution Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this detail in my earlier posts, but the Anchorage Daily News has a great story explaining <a title=\"Anchorage Frozen Out of Frozen Ground opening\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2013\/08\/23\/3039960\/anchorage-frozen-out-of-opening.html\">why The Frozen Ground movie<\/a> has not enjoyed a wide theatrical release. Dunham quotes Ron Holmstrom, who played Hansen&#8217;s lawyer and is an Anchorage-based board member of the Seattle Local of the Screen Actors Guild. Holmstrom explains why the movie did not premiere in Anchorage, where much of it was filmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason that Anchorage is being skipped&#8230; has to do with a fight among theater chains, producers and distributors that involves, among other things, the video on demand (VOD, home pay-per-view) release of &#8216;Frozen Ground&#8217; on the same day that it opens in American theaters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just Anchorage that was affected. Few cities saw <a title=\"The Frozen Ground\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2005374\/\">&#8220;The Frozen Ground&#8221;<\/a> reach theaters.<\/p>\n<p>Holmstrom adds: &#8220;I spoke with both Lionsgate, the theatrical distributor, and Grindstone, the VOD distributor. They assured me that because of the VOD release, the big cinema chains refused to do a wide release.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, a business decision. The principals behind &#8220;The Frozen Ground&#8221; are Emmett\/Furla Productions (they drove the film from its inception). Emmett\/Furla are <em>in tight <\/em>with <a title=\"Lionsgate, Grindstone ink 10 film deal with Emmett\/Furla\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/lionsgate-and-grindstone-entertainment-group-renew-film-slate-deal-with-emmettfurla-and-cheetah-vision-for-additional-10-films-expand-overall-relationship-157774075.html\">Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment Group<\/a>, after signing a 10 film deal in 2012. From the PR piece announcing the deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Grindstone collaboration with Emmett\/Furla and Cheetah Vision has generated a string of successful features starring notable A list actors, including: the thriller SET UP, starring Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe and Curtis &#8220;50 Cent&#8221; Jackson; the crime drama FREELANCERS, starring Robert DeNiro and Forrest Whitaker; the high octane FIRE WITH FIRE, starring Willis, Josh Duhamel, Rosario Dawson and Vincent D&#8217;Onofrio; and the serial killer thriller THE FROZEN GROUND, starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. The next film slated for release from Grindstone&#8217;s partnership with Emmett\/Furla is the crime thriller EMPIRE STATE, starring Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson, THE HUNGER GAMES&#8217; Liam Hemsworth and Emma Roberts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you happen to live in New York, Dallas, Phildelphia or&#8230; Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 8,456)&#8230; You were lucky&#8230; Otherwise, it&#8217;s VOD (If you have <a title=\"Redbox locations by state\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redbox.com\/locations\/state\">Redbox in your area<\/a>, you might be able to get it there, too).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommendation<\/strong>: If you like Nicholas Cage, see the movie. If you followed the Hansen case, see the movie. And then, when you feel the need for more soda and popcorn, read &#8220;<a title=\"Butcher, Baker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Butcher-Baker-Bloodied-Landscape-Murderer\/dp\/1578335442\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377286910&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=butcher+baker\">Butcher, Baker<\/a>.&#8221; If you want to support a great institution in the process, order it from the <a title=\"FOAST\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskatroopermuseum.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&amp;Store_Code=ATM&amp;Category_Code=BOO\">Alaska State Trooper Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this detail in my earlier posts, but the Anchorage Daily News has a great story explaining why The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22,31,32],"tags":[142,272,331,360,366,389,404,529,573],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butcher-baker","category-movies","category-true-crime","category-tv","tag-butcher-baker-2","tag-grindstone-entertainment","tag-john-cusack","tag-leland-hale","tag-lionsgate","tag-movie-distribution","tag-nicholas-cage","tag-the-frozen-ground","tag-walter-gilmour"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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