And it’s the Lionsgate movie that jumps into the movies.We can verify that Sarah Paulson Run’s horror film is coming out of the movie theater premiere schedule and heading to Hulu.
The streamer acquired national lionsgate rights in what would be a competitive situation.Last week, the mini-major announced that janelle Monae’s horror film Antebellum would appear on the big screen in the United States for PVOD on all virtual platforms on September 18.
Like Antebellum, Run will premiere in theaters abroad, but let’s face it, you want a national premiere to reinforce the profiles of those films, even if the primary tours open in the near future, with Cinemark opening the doors of 43 theaters this weekend, and AMC and Regal on August 21, more and more distributors are deciding to give up small and medium-budget movies on the big screen and put them directly in the house.Plus, with everyone in PVOD and streaming, it’s not safe for this style to work.Will audiences locate those smaller genre films if they absolutely avoid a national premiere?All I can tell you is that the exhibition, even a handful of hard movies.caps that are open, hungry for titles.
Run is from Searching Director Aneesh Chaganty, who directed and wrote the photo.The film follows a home-educated teenager who begins to suspect that her mother is hiding a dark secret from her.The film was originally scheduled to be released in theaters on May 8.before the pandemic closed primary film chains in mid-March.