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1 hour 46 minutes Madison Avenue is going to hate "Branded," an ambitious Russian movie released on Friday without screenings for critics and with barely an ad campaign.
"Soldiers of Fortune," an execrable action thriller plopped into a few local theaters without screenings for critics, is one abortive military mission.
Weinstein Co. opened the movie on Friday without screenings for critics.
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Slinking into theaters yesterday without critics' screenings or much advance publicity, it is less frightening than puzzling.
Hirschbiegel's subsequent career has been less than stellar, with The Invasion, his remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman, being snuck out without press screenings and travelling almost instantly to DVD.
Only a cynic would point out that when a film is released without preview screenings for critics, it's usually because it's so dire that it overrides the dictum about no publicity being bad publicity.
To add insult to injury, studios have released a record number of films this year without any screenings for US critics - two last weekend alone, with another, New Line's Snakes on a Plane, due today (there were no critics' screenings of that film in the UK, either).
Without theatrical screenings, the director's intent for a bigger-than-life experience would be lost.
Screen Gems surely would have had more luck marketing this one, with or without press screenings, as this kind of movie is right in their wheelhouse.
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