Recent news on how the gun may have been modified.
I don’t know why they bothered to finish this film.
The show must go on.
Would the insurance company pay off for a loss on the film if they didn’t at least try to finish it and sell it off to a distributor? Honestly, I don’t know how insurance for a film production works. Is it just liability insurance, or might it cover other things?
I actually thought insurance might pay out on this, but I think the insurance company realizes they can finish this movie, so they are going to force them to, more or less.
I’m not sure what movies have actually had an insurance pay out, but it is quite rare. I think the death of an actor with 50% of the footage or so filmed might trigger it. Brandon Lee’s death happened very late in the filming and they finished it without him. Heath Ledger died during The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and they still filmed the movie with different actors.
When has insurance paid out on a movie?
I think adding the widowed husband as an executive producer is tied in somehow to actually finishing the movie.
I suspect there is a certain (morbid) curiosity for this movie that could lead to an audience. And it wouldn’t surprise me if this audience is larger than the number who would have seen the film but now refuse.
It’s possible the movie was finished to meet contractual obligations, but still will never be released. That happens once in a while, as the release and advertising costs of a movie can be greater than the production budget. If the movie is total crap, they might finish it to avoid penalties or something, then the distribution company just shelves it or sells it to a streaming service for a song as one of their endless collections of low budget crap movies.
I have to guess that the movie isn’t very good. It was a low-budget quickie to begin with, and I can’t imagine the stress, delays in shooting, changing of cinematographer and all that was conducive to great art.
Remember what P.T. Barnum said: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
Uh, sorry, no.
Quite, it all points to that at this point the better business decision was to finish the job and fulfill obligations, and be willing to take what loss will be unavoidable and write off what you can.
It will likely be released to streaming if anyone will stream it. Or a Blu-ray only release. I could see it hitting Tubi, Freevee, Roku, Plex, etc.
Edit: Does anyone know if Jensen Ackles is still in this? I don’t think he had filmed much, if anything, when the movie stopped production. Wonder if he was able to get out of being in it after this incident. I’d…expect people to be released from their contracts.
Is that still a thing?
I have no idea. I mean, doesn’t Steven Seagal still release straight-to-video movies? I saw some at the dollar store last week, they looked like they were from the past couple of years.
Note: I have heard Seagal’s movies might be money laundering schemes, which would explain…well, a lot.
Yeah, I’m not exactly sure how we will come to describe crappy movies. I assume that all physical media will disappear pretty soon, but the attraction of seeing a good movie in a cinema when anyone can afford a 4K 65" TV is also decreasing. I honestly can’t remember the last movie of any quality that I didn’t stream.
In support of that:
I had to get a Blu-ray of the movie As The Gods Will from director Takashi Miike. You can buy it on Vudu, but it does not properly stream anywhere in the US.
My library network had the Blu-ray and I watched it that way.
Sorry, late to the thread again. So the FBI not only broke the gun by pounding on it with a mallet, but they didn’t notice that the hammer had been altered? Or did they notice and the DA fucked up again? So many things wrong with this case from the beginning.