Sarah Michelle Gellar
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GannetGuts
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God, they used to put Buffy in some short skirts. I miss her chipmunk cheeks!
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She has literally had ONE movie go straight to DVD. I don't know how that translates to "so many."
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No, they haven't. Suburban Girl went directly to video and that's the only movie she has had that has gone directly to video. TAIB, Southland Tales and that other film you're thinking of (which I'm assuming is the Return) have all gone to theatres. ST was a limited release as was TAIB.
Box office for TAIB, ST and The Return.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=airibreathe.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=southlandtales.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=revolver.htm
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No the Return wasn't it. I know the Return had a theatrical release.
Those films had such limited theatrical releases that I don't count them. For example the Air I Breath had like a test release in select theaters but it did so poorly that it was decided to just be released on DVD.
Those films had such limited theatrical releases that I don't count them. For example the Air I Breath had like a test release in select theaters but it did so poorly that it was decided to just be released on DVD.
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Direct-to-video implies that the movie literally went to video without a theatrical release. Even if you don't count them, a movie released in a theatre, no matter if the run was poor, is still a theatrical release.
There's no such thing as a test release...there is something called a platform release which is what was intended for TAIB. Distributor's normally do this with indie films which don't have a lot of money for promotion (and this movie virtually had no promotion). The plan was to get a "platform release", open it in a small number of theatres then the following week, expand it to more theatres if there was a good theatre average. The first week it was released wasn't a test release, but it's actual release in theatres. If it had done better, the distributor would have expanded it to more theatres.
Studio movies typically get wide releases and if they fail, the distributor still keeps it in theatres for a certain amount of time, due to contractual obligations. This is why some movies are still in theatres for a certain time (say at the least, one month) after they bomb, because that is what the contract stipulates.
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