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Permalink Reply by Joobless on May 29, 2011 at 2:10pm

It wasn't bothering me a few years back, but since I've started to hang around a lot of Internet movie blogs and websites, it's become a huge pain in the ass.

 

Thankfully, I don't watch a whole lot of movies in theaters (maybe 4-5 a year), otherwise I don't think you'd ever hear me shut up about it. Still, last years I there were three movies that I was seriously pumped up about that had a 2-4 month delay between the release in the USA and the release over here in Sweden. Some of them were even considered "okay to spoil" before they were even close to release here.

 

I suppose I can sort of see the reason for this, distributors may not want to gamble on smaller releases before they know how they're doing overseas, or until they gain interest from the public due to Oscar nominations. But it still feels as if someone isn't putting enough of an effort in, why was there a four month delay for Black Swan? Even before the Oscars that movie should not have been hard to sell...

 

Pixar movies I always assumed were being delayed because they need to be dubbed (my sympathies are with people in countries where all movies need to be dubbed :-/), but thinking about it, both Rango and Kung Fu Panda 2 came out here at the same time as they did in the US, and both those movies were released dubbed as well as in English.

 

Like I said, I'm assuming there's a good reason for it, but that doesn't make it any less annoying >,/p>

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Permalink Reply by nkWhiteStar on May 30, 2011 at 3:58pm

Man, I realy sympathise with you, being in Sweden, you must have it worse than we do here in Ireland.  I think it all comes down to the amount of time there is between completion of the film, and it's theatrical release. Pixar movies generally have very little time, so the dubbing and subtitles for other languages means that worldwide releases are delayed, sometimes considerably.

 

In the other hand, films like Rango may have had more time ti work on the dubbing so ensure an international release. There's so many complexities and reasons here, that it would be nigh-on impossible to determine if it is a problem with the studios, or distributers. Spoilers are a major problem, and I think sites need to be more careful and considerate with the material they publish, especially in these days when anyone can post a blog with a review.

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Permalink Reply by Cthulhu R'lyeh on May 29, 2011 at 2:27pm

I still havent seen Source Code because of them...

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Permalink Reply by nkWhiteStar on May 30, 2011 at 3:59pm

Really? Wow, that's aweful. I was in the strange prediciment for Up, where I could have bought the region-free Blu Ray from America, BEFORE the film was even available in cinemas over here.

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Permalink Reply by Cthulhu R'lyeh on May 30, 2011 at 4:00pm

I always have a 1 year lag with Pixar films. Dubs can go to hell.

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Permalink Reply by Samuel on May 30, 2011 at 4:31pm

It's regional. You guys get The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Perreir's Bounty, which get released straight to DVD here.

I'm a big fan of Irish film.

 

But a lot of the time there are great foreign films that get released 3 months before they get to the USA. MicMacs and The Good, The Bad, The Weird are good examples of that.

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