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I point this out not to make fun of Clarius, but rather to again note that sometimes how well a film does is as much dependent on the distributor and their history/marketing might as it does with the film's content. The Nicole Kidman/Colin Firth thriller Before I Sleep dropped in October for a $1.8m debut weekend on 1,900 screens on the way to a $3.2m total. Dorothy's Return: Legends of Oz opened with $3.7 million in the second weekend of summer on the way to a $8.4m domestic total while And So It Goes ended summer with a $4.6m debut on the way to a (surprisingly leggy) $15.6m total. Clarius is a new distributor, and all three of their previous 2014 releases had among the lowest nationwide debuts of the year. The notion of Clarius Entertainment of all distributors opening a wide release picture against Avengers: Age of Ultron felt at the time like a cosmic prank for box office pundits.

To wit, the film comes from distributor Clarius Entertainment. Of course, now when we'll see this movie is something of a mystery. The iconic 1970's director behind such classics as The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon has his first theatrical feature since The Cat's Meow back in 2001 which in turn was his first theatrical feature since the River Phoenix drama The Thing Called Love back in 1993 (he directed a number of TV movies in the 1990's). If you're wondering how this film managed to round up such an exceptional cast, it's probably because the film is directed by one Peter Bogdanovich. Peter Bogdanovich actually has a new film on the horizon, although when you'll see it is now something of a mystery.

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