'The Road' is Expanding On December 18 and Here are the Target Cities
Is it coming to your city?
I obviously don't do this for most films, or really any films for that matter, but considering I alerted you to the markets The Road would first be hitting on its November 25 release I figured I may as well keep you up-to-date as the information continued to roll in. And guess what, information has rolled in.
On December 18, The Road will be expanding and I have been told by a Weinstein Co. rep they are targeting 53 additional markets around the US. Now when I say "targeting" that means they are still working on confirming theatres. So while your city's name may be on this list it still isn't 100-percent confirmed.
- Cleveland
- Indianapolis
- Hartford & New Haven
- Charlotte
- Raleigh-Durham
- Nashville
- Cincinnati
- Milwaukee
- Columbus, OH
- Greenvll-Spart-Ashevll-And
- Salt Lake City
- Memphis
- Norfolk-Portsmth-Newpt Nws
- West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce
- Buffalo
- Louisville
- Albuquerque-Santa Fe
- Providence-New Bedford
- Las Vegas
- Fresno- Visalia
- Albany-Schenectady-Troy
- Little Rock-Pine Bluff
- Richmond-Petersburg
- Knoxville
- Wichita-Hutchinson Plus
- Des Moines-Ames
- Honolulu
- Tucson(Nogales)
- Omaha
- Paducah-C. Gird-Harbg-Mt Vn
- Shreveport
- Syracuse
- Rochester, NY
- Spokane
- Springfield, MO
- Portland-Auburn
- Ft. Myers-Naples
- Champaign&Sprngfld-Decatur
- Chattanooga
- Madison
- Davenport-R. Island-Moline
- Burlington-Plattsburgh
- Colorado Springs-Pueblo
- Lincoln&Hstngs-Krnyplus
- Charleston, SC
- Springfield-Holyoke, MA
- Tallahassee-Thomasville
- Monterey-Salinas
- Columbia-Jefferson City
- Gainesville
- Charlottesville
- Bend, OR
- Puerto Rico
For more on The Road click here and for my review you can read that here. The first list of markets I published can be found here, and the script just went online, which is detailed further right here.
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Go see this guys, it's totally worth it.
Saw it today in Toronto. Worth seeing on the big screen but please turn off your cell phones. Nothing's worse that hearing a Lady Gaga ringtone in the middle of a post apocalyptic film.
So how much does this site love The Road movie? Based on a book that is impossible to film to anyone´s satisfaction. Great writers usually don´t translate into great movies. The Roade is just one of those gloomy books. It takes a beggar to earn from scratch and a genius to translate a great book into a worthwhile film: read Huston (Big Sleep), Kubrick (Clockwork), Coppola (Godfather), Forman (Cuckoo´s Nest), Ashby (Being There); now that´s a tough titty to follow.
bring this movie too houston
Charlotte! I'll be down there for the holidays. Wicked. :D
@Helgi: The Road movie? So-so. The Road book? A lot. I just felt it was important to remain consistent. :)
…so, does anyone know why they're doing a multi-phase release like this? Is there some kind of strategy around getting Oscar attention, or is there a revenue/expense motivation? Or some logistical issue?
On the other hand there are many books that have been mutilated or even butchered at the movies. Even the greats fail. Kubrick failed to make The Shining THE greatest horror of all times. Instead he optioned to go for the calculated horror with diminishing results, even though the movie has tremendous power most of the time. Catch-22 by Mike Nichols is a failure, really leaving out all the humor by Heller. Does anyone remember The Great Gatsby, made in 1974, starring Redford and Farrow? A big masterpiece of a book by Fitzgerald but an enormous thud as a movie. The second version of Lolita, made ten years ago, totally misunderstood the book. It took the serious matter too seriously and became almost lifeless. Nabokov wrote a deliriously funny book about a serious matter and Kubrick took notice back in 1961. Screenwriters and directors should take note. Otherwise you´re bound for failure instead of glory.
Bend, Oregon?
WTF Bend Oregon but not more showings in Portland? Parts of it were filmed in OR. Weinsteins really screwed this one up.
No new cities in Michigan. Big surprise… at least I can dream.
GregM, I think a Lady Gaga song is pretty much perfect for anything involving the apocalypse.
Does anybody know if 12-18 will also be the day it's expanded in current cities? In Chicago it's only playing in 2 theaters (and 1 in Evanston), but I live about 20 miles outside the city and I'd love to be able to see the film at a closer theater (and pay about $5 less for the ticket).
I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie. It's too bad the studio is throwing it away by NOT SHOWING IT ANYWHERE.
Why in the world is it expanding to Puerto Rico when we have major cities around the united states where people actually have money and desire to see this movie?
Puerto Rico is a run down tourist town where the citizens living there are broke. Those that aren't would much rather play on the beach or on their yachts than go watch a movie set in the freezing midwest in a post-apoc. world.
There are more people in my medium sized town of Dayton, Ohio where we have over 250 theater screens waiting for The Road to show up.