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Roadshow Films announced today that they’ve snared the Australian and New Zealand theatrical distribution rights to Academy Award® winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming feature “The Hateful Eight”.
CEO of Roadshow Films, Joel Pearlman commented, “Roadshow Films was hand-picked by Quentin Tarantino to release the film in Australia and New Zealand and we are greatly honoured to be working with him and The Weinstein Company on what is sure to be the next masterpiece in his portfolio.”
“The Hateful Eight” will premiere for a one week exclusive season in 70MM at selected cinemas. The film will then open nationwide at cinemas everywhere, with release dates to be confirmed at a later date.
The lead cast for the movie will include: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern.
In “The Hateful Eight”, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
“The Hateful Eight” will release in the U.S. in 70MM for a two week exclusive window on December 25, 2015, followed by a theatrical digital release nationwide on January 8, 2016.
