Pardon the delay in posting this item; it’s been a busy, hectic weekend, what with deadlines and baptisms and all.
Anyway, on Friday, Studio Briefing noted that yet another movie — i.e. Silent Hill — had been released without being screened in advance for critics, or at least without being screened for most of us.
Once again, in the United States, the studio behind this decision was Sony; however, in Canada, the film was released by Alliance-Atlantis, which, in my neck of the woods at least, did invite critics at the last minute to a screening on Thursday night at 9pm — in other words, so late that reviews would not appear in the newspapers until Saturday, or the day after the movie opened, at the earliest. (I couldn’t make it to that screening myself, because I was already catching another movie somewhere else.)
And now, like a number of other films that were withheld from critics, it seems Silent Hill has opened at #1. Sigh.
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