Delillo's Game 6

[John Bailey]

It was released in 15 theatres America-wide and was apparently pretty
good. Part of the problem was that they marketed it as a sports movie
when it's really about an embittered New York playwright.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So does "production difficulties" mean they made a very shitty movie out of it---
> or they thought they did--so they "remaindered" it pre-emptively to give Keaton
> some of the pocket change they owed him?
>
> Because if they had a good movie, they would have released it to overcome some
> of the expenses under "production difficulties".
>
> Unless there were ownership clashes. Ask Orson Welles about the latter.
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:13 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't know Don Delillo wrote a screenplay that was produced as a
>> feature film. Apparently a bunch of production difficulties meant that
>> the release was very small, but it did star Michael Keaton, Robert
>> Downey Jr., Catherine O’Hara, Bebe Neuwirth, Ari Graynor and Griffin
>> Dunne.
>> https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/7/6/21300934/game-6-movie-don-delillo-1986-world-series
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