Movie: "Jane Got A Gun" released with little advance notice

[200Apples]

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The recently-released motion picture "Jane Got A Gun" was released with "as much advance notice as a traffic accident" ...which isn't surprising since Harvey Weinstein is a known anti. I'm surprised the picture was released by his company.

I'd like to see it especially since I dig Westerns. And guns.

Jane is not your grandfather’s Western heroine: She can fire bullets into bad guys just as efficiently as she can take them out of her husband. Granted, she may not be the world’s surest shot when it comes to hitting a long-range target. But when she’s facing a foe in close quarters — particularly during the applause-worthy finale — she shoots and she scores. Portman handles the rough stuff quite convincingly throughout “Jane Got a Gun.” She’s at her best, though, in scenes where Jane demonstrates that maternal rage can be every bit as lethal as a quick draw.

Link to Variety's review

 

[berettaprofessor]

Just saw it. Just an old fashioned Western. Decent but slow. Simple but effective.

 

[PiratePenguin]

Harvey was an executive producer on Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, so we know exactly how much his anti-gun stance is worth when money is on the line.

 

[psyopspec]

The recently-released motion picture "Jane Got A Gun" was released with "as much advance notice as a traffic accident" ...which isn't surprising since Harvey Weinstein is a known anti.

Are you saying the guy scuttled his own movie's release and financially tanked it because he's anti-gun? If so, why not just not make the movie to begin with?

More likely impacting the quick release were the production problems that plagued the film, with actors and directors rotating in and out of the project. The thing has been in the can for something like two years now too. Usually those kinds of issues, combined with quiet releases, are a remedy for "getting it over with already" when a studio knows that it doesn't have a hit on its hands and doesn't want to throw good money after bad burning cash on advertising and promotion.

 

[Robert]

This really has nothing to do with the mission of THR.