Friday, December 02, 2005

Serenity not coming to Finland

Up until now, the first screening date here in Finland was supposed to be today, 2.12, but when I went to check, it had mystically disappeared from every theater's list. After a moment of googling I found this message from Sandrew Metronome Finland:
"Ennakkotiedoista poiketen elokuva saa näillä näkymin ensi-iltansa valitettavasti suoraan videolla. Päätöksen takana on kyseisen elokuvan levittäjäyhtiö."

Which says that the film will be straight-to-video, and that the decision has been made by the distribution company of the film. This really bugs me and is weird, since the movie is being shown just across the border, in Sweden... So the distributor just decided that it wasn't going to be shown in Finland??!

This sucks.