Delillo's Game 6

[Mark Kohut]

LOL....

Reminds me of why Waiting for Godot failed utterly in Miami, the first
theater which
performed it in the US. Fact.

Marketed as a laugh riot, lol.


On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:39 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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