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$65 Million ‘Che’ Gets Pretty Pathetic Deal

Posted by Dirty Harry on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

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Looks as though Mark Cuban and Magnolia Pictures made their first smart business decision, uhm, ever and decided to step away and let IFC take on liberal Hollywood’s love letter to the mass murderer Che. This sucker cost $65 million to produce and here’s the planned roll-out:

“Che” will be released for one week awards qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles in December. The company will then re-open the film in January through IFC In Theaters, its day-and-date distribution platform which makes independent films available to a national audience in theaters and on-demand, simultaneously. It will also be included in the company’s exclusive video rental deal with Blockbuster Video.

The good news is that to screen this sucker for review purposes (there would be no other) my butt will now numb up in the comfort of my own home as opposed to some dark, dank West Hollywood theatre.

Maybe the idea is to honor Che by not making any capitalist-pig money? Yeah, that’s why.

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15 Responses to “$65 Million ‘Che’ Gets Pretty Pathetic Deal”

  1. Carloson 10 Sep 2008 at 12:41 pm 1

    Methinks I’ll pass!

  2. Johnny Ed's Babyon 10 Sep 2008 at 12:43 pm 2

    What will happen first?

    Someone making it all the way through this movie or Fidel Castro dies?

  3. billypaintbrushon 10 Sep 2008 at 12:47 pm 3

    run for one week, then direct to video? maybe they can pad the 4 1/2 hour DVD with lots of features and make a couple sheckels from the boxed set.

    this crass gaming cheapens the oscars and ought to embarrass the Academy.

  4. Acushlaon 10 Sep 2008 at 1:20 pm 4

    ‘Maybe the idea is to honor Che by not making any capitalist-pig money?’

    [Good. Let’s help them meet that goal.]

  5. steevyon 10 Sep 2008 at 1:53 pm 5

    Blockbuster good luck on your “exclusive”deal.Dumbasses.

  6. Rusty Jameson 10 Sep 2008 at 2:16 pm 6

    The oscars were cheap way before this movie showed up.

    By the way, am I the only one who hates this exclusive deal stuff?

  7. Full Metal Deer Platoonon 10 Sep 2008 at 2:38 pm 7

    Yet another reason to not watch IFC.

  8. Forlournedon 10 Sep 2008 at 2:47 pm 8

    So when are those in hollyweird going to roll out the Epic FOUR Hour tale of an struggling artist who suffered greatly during the ~War to End ALL War~ and with his Two Bare Hands brought his adopted country out of an terrible depression and onto the World stage?!!

    I smell a bunch of Academy dildoes jumping at that one!

  9. Forlournedon 10 Sep 2008 at 2:49 pm 9

    That could be the next ‘Doctor Zhivago’ without the direction, talent or class!

  10. Carolynon 10 Sep 2008 at 4:39 pm 10

    “Maybe the idea is to honor Che by not making any capitalist-pig money?”

    They may have ‘honored’ Che. But at $65 million, the pigs are laughing.

  11. Attmayon 10 Sep 2008 at 4:53 pm 11

    $65 million for a communist-glorifying, bedsore-causing “epic” no one will ever see?

    How long before the $100-million, 10-hour Hitler-apologist film?

  12. Mr24pon 10 Sep 2008 at 5:31 pm 12

    Is that Del Toro as Che? I think I gave that dude some spare change today outside a McDonalds.

  13. Duralon 10 Sep 2008 at 6:10 pm 13

    Che=Medellin in real life.

  14. Wyatt Wingfooton 10 Sep 2008 at 7:54 pm 14

    He looks nothing like the t-shirt.

  15. Jack Marinoon 10 Sep 2008 at 10:28 pm 15

    They have the BALLS to criticize my film!

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