Help Midnight Meat Train Get a Wide Theatrical Release!
Troubling news has hit the horror front the last few days. The buzz is that Lionsgate will dump the highly anticipated Midnight Meat Train in a very limited theatrical release (100 theaters or less across the country) before shuffling it off to for quicky DVD release.
You, along with hundreds of thousands of other horror fans, have been eagerly anticipating this hard-R rated film that promised us the solid story of Clive Barker, buckets of grue and, most of all, something different amid all the remakes, disappointments and PG-13 films.
Yet, now we might not even be able to watch this hotly anticipated film on the big screen thanks to nothing but alleged internal feuding at Lionsgate.
There is something we as fans can do, though, because the almighty dollar speaks louder than any grudge…
Below we’ve reposted an email that has been circulating lately, an impassioned plea from a fellow horror fan urging YOU to get involved in persuading Lionsgate that Midnight Meat Train deserves a wider theatrical release.
Read on fellow horror fans, and act today!
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WE NEED TO START A VIRAL CAMPAIGN TO GET “MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN” A WIDER RELEASE!!!
A very reliable SOURCE from Lionsgate has told me that the Lionsgate decision to “dump” Midnight Meat Train in as few screens as they are contractually required and then rush the film to DVD is based purely on INTERNAL POLITICS.
The new head honcho doesn’t like the old head honcho and is deliberately “dumping” all of his films out of spite and malice.
But there is HOPE! The only thing that overrides backstabbing politics in Hollywood is PURE GREED. It is clearly not healthy for investor relations to “dump” a movie that has a vocal and dedicated audience. Midnight Meat Train represents the kind of horror film that audiences have been dying for!!
There is growing internal pressure within the company for a wider release of this film and PUBLIC FAN PRESSURE may help to push this decision over the edge.
If you wish to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in all its big screen glory at a THEATER near you, please do the following:
Cut and paste the message at the bottom of this post and e-mail it to:
1.) Investor relations at Lionsgate: keasterling@lionsgate.com
2.) Lionsgate: general-inquiries@lionsgate.com
3.) Call the main office at (310) 449-9200 and express your desire to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN get the release it deserves.
BE POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL! We don’t want to piss them off, just want them to know how many fans out there would like to shell out their hard earned cash to see the most groundbreaking horror film of the past ten years in a real movie theater!
WE’VE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS MOVIE TO LET IT GO STRAIGHT TO DVD!!
Post this message everywhere, send it to your horror friends and spread the word! We need to act FAST to have an effect!!!
And LONG LIVE THE MEAT!!
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E-mail message (or feel free to compose your own):
Dear Lionsgate,
As a long time Clive Barker fan, I am writing you to express my strong desire to see “The Midnight Meat Train” on the big screen.
Rumors are currently circulating that the film will only be released on a limited basis and I am very concerned that I will miss my opportunity to see the most highly anticipated Clive Barker film in over a decade in all of its big screen glory!
There are millions of horror fans like myself who have been disappointed by the recent trend towards watered down PG-13 horror movies. Clive’s work represents a return to serious, thought provoking horror movies and with Ryuhei Kitamura at the helm, I am even more excited to experience this collaboration as it was intended: in a packed theater with hundreds of other horror fans like myself!
I urge you to please give this film the release it deserves!
Many thanks,
A Concerned Horror Fan
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