Hiding "Jesse James"
It's getting good reviews, scoring a 73 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an A in Entertainment Weekly. It's got Brad Pitt in it, for heaven's sake.
So why is Warner Bros. giving "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" the shaft?
The movie, by Aussie director Andrew Dominik, stars Pitt as the legendary outlaw and Casey Affleck as the man who gunned him down. It is already playing in major markets, and is slated to open this Friday in more cities - including in the Salt Lake City area.
That was news to Salt Lake critics, who were informed Monday morning by Warner Bros.' regional representatives in Denver. Those reps, God bless 'em, have scrambled to set up a press screening so the Salt Lake critics could see and review the film.
Alas, their efforts seemingly have been sabotaged by the studio, which can't seem to find a print available for a pre-screening. (UPDATE: We're on for Thursday morning - a tight squeeze for deadline.)
Salt Lake City isn't the only city where "The Assassination..." is getting short shrift. Shawn Levy at the Oregonian reports similar mistreatment of the film in Portland. Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere got a heads-up from Henry Cabot Beck, a free-lance critic in Phoenix, that the Arizona critics were not getting a screening at all - and Wells heard the same thing happening in Houston. (UPDATE: Add Las Vegas to the list as well.)
Somehow, Jesse James deserves better.
So why is Warner Bros. giving "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" the shaft?
The movie, by Aussie director Andrew Dominik, stars Pitt as the legendary outlaw and Casey Affleck as the man who gunned him down. It is already playing in major markets, and is slated to open this Friday in more cities - including in the Salt Lake City area.
That was news to Salt Lake critics, who were informed Monday morning by Warner Bros.' regional representatives in Denver. Those reps, God bless 'em, have scrambled to set up a press screening so the Salt Lake critics could see and review the film.
Alas, their efforts seemingly have been sabotaged by the studio, which can't seem to find a print available for a pre-screening. (UPDATE: We're on for Thursday morning - a tight squeeze for deadline.)
Salt Lake City isn't the only city where "The Assassination..." is getting short shrift. Shawn Levy at the Oregonian reports similar mistreatment of the film in Portland. Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere got a heads-up from Henry Cabot Beck, a free-lance critic in Phoenix, that the Arizona critics were not getting a screening at all - and Wells heard the same thing happening in Houston. (UPDATE: Add Las Vegas to the list as well.)
Somehow, Jesse James deserves better.
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