Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

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  • Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

    I love this man. I do. Lots of really interesting insight on Hollywood and what studios want, as well as advice for non-Hollywood based filmmakers trying to break in.

    Skip to 18 minute mark where the interview starts:

    http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/720505

    (This was recorded yesterday, btw, so very recent.)
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    Re: Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

    Originally posted by nic.h View Post
    I love this man. I do. Lots of really interesting insight on Hollywood and what studios want, as well as advice for non-Hollywood based filmmakers trying to break in.

    Skip to 18 minute mark where the interview starts:

    http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/720505

    (This was recorded yesterday, btw, so very recent.)

    Thanks Nic, I totally agree... this was a gem of a film, too!
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      Re: Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

      Glad you could open it Tucson. I've received messages that the link only works for Australian sites. These should be universal, but just in case, I've included the transcript link too.

      I haven't seen it yet - it's only just opened here, which seems slow - but I notice it tanked in the US. Any thoughts as to why?


      Interview:

      http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3141897.htm

      Or this:
      ...http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/s...11/3138933.htm ?

      Or the transcript:

      http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3141897.htm
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        Re: Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

        it hasn't been advertised (accept at the theaters) and fully released/gone out wide in the US yet.
        i think they only put it out there with the hopes of oscar contention but it was too late to get any buzz for it. blame it on the distributors.

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          Re: Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

          Originally posted by NikeeGoddess View Post
          it hasn't been advertised (accept at the theaters) and fully released/gone out wide in the US yet.
          i think they only put it out there with the hopes of oscar contention but it was too late to get any buzz for it. blame it on the distributors.
          Interesting. Always hard to read things from outside. He went to National Geographic instead of the studios - definitely thinking beyond the usual parameters. I wonder if that was part of the problem, too...
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            Re: Peter Weir interview re The Way Back

            Originally posted by NikeeGoddess View Post
            it hasn't been advertised (accept at the theaters) and fully released/gone out wide in the US yet.
            i think they only put it out there with the hopes of oscar contention but it was too late to get any buzz for it. blame it on the distributors.
            I fear that maybe this IS the wide release. Its limited run at the end of December was more stealth than limited. It played on one screen in Los Angeles. Not unusual for an awards qualifier, right? Except that that one screen was in friggin' COVINA (the boondocks of LA County) and they didn't advertise at all. A few weeks later, it got something like 600 screens in the US, and nobody went. Now it's almost gone. All of this was apparently part of some genius master distribution strategy meant to favor the awards season...

            http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/osca...2010-screener/

            Why didn't people go? Lack of advertising, certainly, but I saw it and wasn't exactly aching to tell my friends about it. I'm a huge Weir fan, but I think this is one of those stories that are amazing because it's true (although apparently that might not be the case) but just doesn't translate well as a movie.

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