We at CHUD are very excited for you to see Detention, which you may have heard I liked…
That comes from the SXSW review I wrote before I had met or really got to know Joe Kahn, and well before Nick and I actually worked with him on some cool golf commercials. It’s still a statement I stand behind. There’s an aggressive insanity driving the film, even though it’s built with clockwork precision that makes it exactly my kind of movie. It’s an uncompromising vision from a director that I can promise you first-hand has put everything he’s got into it.
After its triumphant debut at SXSW, the film finally has an April 13th date for its 10-theater AMC release which, in a change-up of the usual course lately, isn’t preceded by a VOD release. In this case the film will have its shot at getting in front of audiences in a theater first, perhaps even expanding if the response is especially strong, and then reaching the masses online after. Here are the theaters in which you may serve your assigned detention…
ATLANTA – Southlake 24 Pavilion
BOSTON – Boston Commons
CHICAGO – River East
HOUSTON – Studio 30
LOS ANGELES – Burbank 16
MIAMI – Aventura
NEW YORK – Empire
SAN DIEGO – Mission Valley
SAN FRANCISCO – Metreon
SEATTLE – Pacific Place
There are also Canadian screenings in Halifax and Toronto that will be announced soon.
Along with the date and theater list, is a website for the film and a brand new clip that’s been posted online and provides just the tiniest hint of the deep-cut cultural references and energetic filmmaking. More importantly though, it gives you a taste of the plain old funny writing that permeates the film and keeps it from being a total Von Trierian cinematic experiment rather than the fun movie it is. Take a look.
If there’s a theater anywhere near you, I’d suggest marking your calendar for the April 13th release and seeing the film first thing. It definitely needs your support, and it needs it first weekend. Films of this size don’t get releases like this anymore, and a endeavor as whole-heated as Detention deserves to get its shot. I would strongly suggest making the trek and having a blast. I know we in Atlanta certainly will (in fact, metro Chewers… hit us up if you’d like to join the convoy.)
Also, keep your eyes peeled on CHUD for more special Detention stuff, including a truly epic interview with the director and screenwriter…
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Trek indeed; Southlake is past the fucking airport. Considering The FP is opening there as well I guess this is the official Georgia dumping ground for future cult movies that have no chance theatrically. I’m glad it’s getting released, but it almost makes me wonder why they even bothered.
I’m a little surprised they don’t have it actually in the perimeter at Parkway Pointe, but the Morrow 24 is their biggest theater in the state (IIRC), and I’m not anymore interested in trucking north to Discover Mills, so it make some sense. There’s also a younger market of suburban kids centered around Southlake that might respond to movies like Detention and The FP pretty strongly.
Not sure how close that Empire tyre is here in NY but I wanna catch this one.
I am in for the Trek. I would prefer Saturday, as I work in Kennesaw, but will do what I can to make it.
Nothing personal Renn, glad you are getting some professional work, but this movie seems like a culmination of everything I detest about the last decade. To me it seems like Scott Pilgrim(huge disappointment) meets a Britney Spears music video. Style over substance, superficiality over depth, and the one thing this generation can definitely lay claim to introducing to daily use in pop culture, accorring to one positive review, lots of vomiting.
Seriously, what is with people vomitting on television, online, in movies like, every day? Is it some weird fetish that young people have nowadays? Not sure if you remember, but only about 15 years ago, the only place you ever saw vomitting was in movies. While most people believe that Jackass were the pioneers of this, I would say that Tom Green(not from your generation), who seems to be largely forgotten, is actually the person that started this trend, for better or for worse….but yeah, when I was growing up, you never saw that shit on tv. I don’t really care, but yeah, somethings were better left to the imagination…do you guys find it weird how much you enjoy watching people puke?
Just looked over the list of AMC theatres and they definitely don’t have as good a foothold within the perimeter as Regal does. That pretty much eliminates everything but Southlake as they’d hurt the least from giving a screen over to a movie that (sadly) won’t make much of an impact. Either way, I’d be down with being able to say I was one of the 14 people who got to see it in a theatre.
Looks like fun. I liked Torque quite a bit. All those pop culture references in the trailer though . . . kudos for not using Alice Cooper.
I’m gonna fly in to Atlanta to watch it at Southlake that weekend. Hope to see you there, even if you hate Britney Spears or vomiting or Torque or Asian people. If I can fly, you can drive!
Are we going to start a forum post in the around Atlanta section? I prefer Saturday, but can work around if I need to. Let me know.
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