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Ten Blue Rider Films Out on DVD in 2009 Ten films financed and/or produced by Blue Rider came out on DVD in 2009 in North America. And on January 26, 2010, the crime thriller GIVE 'EM HELL, MALONE will be released on DVD.
The latest Blue Rider DVD to hit stores was NOT FORGOTTEN, a spooky kidnapping thriller starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega and Claire Forlani; it was released in North America on Nov. 3, 2009. Two weeks earlier, buyers had their first look at 100 FEET, a horror thriller toplined by Famke Janssen and Bobby Cannavale.
Released in 2009 were John Boorman's thoughtful psychological thriller THE TIGER'S TAIL, starring Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattral, and the Julia Ormand-Bill Pullman supernatural thriller SURVEILLANCE.
Earlier in 2009, North American audiences were exposed to the teen romantic drama KEITH (Elizabeth Harnois, Jesse McCartney), the Middle East political drama O JERUSALEM, the space guys vs. Vikings sci-fi flick OUTLANDER (Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles), the political mystery GOSPEL HILL (Danny Glover, Giancarlo Esposito, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, Adam Baldwin), the gripping teen escape drama BOOT CAMP (Mila Kunis, Gregory Smith), and the 32-camera Hi-Def rock concert DVD NICKELBACK: LIVE AT STURGIS 2006.
Overseas (in the PAL format that cannot be viewed on North American DVD players), Europe and Australia were treated to Blue Rider's historical political drama HEART OF THE EARTH (Sienna Guillory), the teen basketball drama HOME OF THE GIANTS (Hayley Joel Osment, Daniella Panabaker), the haunted house drama KNIFE EDGE (Nathalie Press, Hugh Bonneville), the revenge thriller TO HAVE AND TO HOLD (Justine Bateman, Sebastian Spence) and the murderous pimp thriller VEILED TRUTH (Emanuelle Vaugier). Several of these DVDs have alternative titles: VEILED TRUTH is also known as WHAT COMES AROUND; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD is also called FATAL AFFAIR; and BOOT CAMP is also STRAIGHT EDGE.After 18 Months, Steve Miller DVD Still Ranks #22 on Amazon.com's Concert Boxed Set Chart The high-definition, 32-camera concert film, STEVE MILLER BAND: LIVE IN CHICAGO came out on DVD on May 20, 2008. In its initial week, it topped the best-selling music and concert DVD lists for Amazon.com and Billboard. In its second week, it ranked #10 on the Billboard Top Music Video chart. On Dec. 16, 2009 (in its 18th month of release) it still ranked #15 at Amazon.com among music video and concert boxed sets.
Fully 85.2% of those reviewing it through Dec. 16, 2009 at Amazon.com gave it five stars out of a possible five (with another 7.4% rating it four stars).
Blue Rider provided financing for it and for concert films by Godsmack, Smashing Pumpkins and Nickelback to Coming Home Studios. Blue Rider founders Walter Josten and Jeff Geoffray serve as executive producers on all four films.
Miller supported the DVD with a 39-city Summer 2008 tour.100 Feet Plays at Fests, Opens Overseas, on TV, DVD and in Theatres The horror thriller 100 FEET, starring Famke Janssen and Bobby Cannavale, received a bridge loan from Blue Rider Finance. It played at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest, The Sitges (Spain) International Festival of Fantastic and Horror cinema and The (US) Screamfest Film Festival, and it opened in South Korea (grossing $481,671), The Philippines, Russia, the US and Argentina (DVD) in 2008. In 2009 it bowed on Spanish, Italian and US TV; in theatres in Taiwan, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mexico; and on DVD in Germany, UK, Netherlands and USA. It was screening in November and December 2009 on Britain's Sky Sci Fi/Horror HD. And at Amazon.com, on Dec. 16, 2009, in its second month of release, its DVD ranked #66 in the Independent Horror film category.Who's Your Caddy Grosses $15.7 million on Screens and DVD Who's Your Caddy had grossed $5,694,308 in North American theatres after 11 weeks of release. It opened as the 10th-rated film of the week, at 1,019 theatres, grossing $2.8 million. Blue Rider was the bridge financier for this zany golf comedy. After its sixth week in release (Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008), the DVD had grossed $10.0 million in rental revenues and ranked #44 in the U.S. In its opening week on DVD it ranked #19, grossing $2.41 million. Who's Your Caddy played at the June 23, 2007 Urbanworld Film Festival.
Combining domestic boxoffice and DVD rentals, Who's Your Caddy had a gross of $15.7 million. In its 25th month of release (as of Dec. 17., 2009), the DVD ranked #5 on Amazon.com's list of best-selling golf DVDs and #28 among urban comedies.Boot Camp Straight Edge (aka "Straight Edge "), Plays in Eight Countries Blue Rider funded a Bridge Loan to the $13.8-million teen thriller Boot Camp (also called Straight Edge), in which a group of troubled teens, sent to a rehabilitation program on the island of Fiji, discover it is a prison-like boot camp where they are abused and brainwashed.
It screened at the Nov. 1, 2007 American Film Market and at the Feb. 8 2008 European Film Market (in Germany), had its DVD premiere in Greece on April 18, opened in Kuwait on May 8, in Germany on July 28 and in South Korea on July 31, 2008. It had 2009 DVD premieres in Italy, Australia and the U.S. (Aug. 25) and bowed on Mexican screens on Nov. 13, 2009.
On Dec. 17, 2009, its DVD ranked #75 in the Independent Mystery & Suspense category at Amazon.com .
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