‘Midnight Meat Train’ to Make (Very) Select Stops This Weekend
July 31, 2008
Filed under: Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Lionsgate Films, RumorMonger, Distribution
In a development noted on several horror sites, not the least of which are Shock and BD.com, it appears that Lionsgate is indeed opening the oft-shuffled adaptation of Clive Barker’s The Midnight Meat Train on roughly 100 screens this Friday. However, all currently-posted showtimes are at second-run theaters — otherwise known as dollar theaters, although it never seems to be that cheap anymore, not even on Tuesdays.
In my neck of the woods, one theater has it booked for two evening shows a day, for an engagement that I’m willing to bet will last only one week. The last time I remember a first-run film being shown at this theater, it was the Weinsteins’ Feast, even though that usually neglectful studio did so as part of a clear strategy to boost general awareness of that motion picture before its DVD release a month later (and wouldn’t you know it, that wasn’t a bad flick at all).
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