{"id":2430,"date":"2004-04-20T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/20\/donnie-darko-coming-back-to-seattle\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:50:44","slug":"donnie-darko-coming-back-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/20\/donnie-darko-coming-back-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Darko coming back to Seattle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11243,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/story.news.yahoo.com\\\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1940&amp;ncid=790&amp;e=10&amp;u=\\\/variety\\\/20040420\\\/va_fi_ne\\\/turning_on_new_light_for__darko&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050422075916\\\/http:\\\/\\\/story.news.yahoo.com:80\\\/news?tmpl=story&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:13:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 09:36:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 09:36:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11244,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/community\\\/seattle\\\/1515222.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/community\\\/seattle\\\/1515222.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How incredibly cool &#8212; Donnie Darko, which disappeared from most theaters practically before it was released, has become such a cult favorite that its studio is going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1940&amp;ncid=790&amp;e=10&amp;u=\/variety\/20040420\/va_fi_ne\/turning_on_new_light_for__darko\" title=\"Yahoo! News: Turning on new light for 'Darko'\">re-releasing it to theaters<\/a>, starting right here in Seattle!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Donnie Darko,&#8221; which made a paltry \\$517,375 when it was released in October 2001, will get a second chance.<\/p>\n<p>  Newmarket Films, which holds domestic distrib rights, is looking to cash in on the pic&#8217;s growing cult status by rereleasing a director&#8217;s cut this summer.<\/p>\n<p>  New cut, which includes 21 minutes of footage not in the original release, will premiere May 29 at the Seattle Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>  Newmarket topper Bob Berney said the company then plans to release the pic on about 10 screens in the city as a test run for a wider national release.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I want to see if we can play it in the malls and multiplexes,&#8221; Berney said, adding that the company planned TV and print ad buys commensurate with a big-budget release.<\/p>\n<p>  Newmarket says it will use the results of the Seattle release to determine the pattern for a national rollout.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Count me in on this one!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/seattle\/1515222.html\" title=\"Seattle determines the fate of Donnie Darko?\">LJ Seattle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Velvet Pants&#8221; by Propellerheads from the album <em>Decksandrumsandrockandroll<\/em> (1998, 5:47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How incredibly cool &mdash; Donnie Darko, which disappeared from most theaters practically before it was released, has become such a cult favorite that its studio is going to be re-releasing it to theaters, starting right here in Seattle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[2482,23],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-donnie-darko","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}