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"Over on my Hebrew blog I often bitch about how long it sometimes takes for a high-profile American movie to cross the Atlantic and reach screens [in Israel]. Sometimes it takes an eternity, and some films wind up not even playing theatres. Into the Wild and The Assassination of Jesse James were straight-to-DVD releases over here. But with 88 Minutes roles are reversed: this one was released theatrically about a year ago, and is now already available on DVD. Only now it reaches American screens. Too bad for you guys.
"Remember that Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort, the film’s producers, are Israeli ex-pats, and that Samuel Hadida, the film’s French co-financier, has a ownership stake at the megaplex owned by the film’s Israeli distributors." -- from a 4.19 review on Israeli blogger Yair Raveh's column (otherwise known as Cinemascope),which appears in both Hebrew and English.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 19, 2008 at 7:54 AM
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Mgmax
says ...
Somehow I don't see that we got the short end of that deal.
Posted by Mgmax
at April 19, 2008 8:26 AM
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nemo
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Too bad 88 Minutes didn't go straight to DVD in both Israel and the US.
Posted by nemo
at April 19, 2008 11:08 AM
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Bob Violence
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Yeah, Raveh isn't in much position to brag, given that 88 Minutes was direct-to-DVD in most territories...hell, it was mostly funded with German tax-shelter money and it couldn't even manage a theatrical release there.
Posted by Bob Violence
at April 20, 2008 10:54 PM
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