fumanstan

Based on the book I couldn't find an existing thread about this, and I don't believe a US release date has been announced for this yet, but the English language trailer just came out a couple days ago. The stop motion animation portions look beautiful!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lit...282015_film%29

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RichC2

Well, this was set for release on March 18th, but Paramount has decided to drop it entirely apparently.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/03/...before-release

Oh and the trailer for said canned movie (it's the same as the one in fumanstan's post)



Movie has a 93% on Rottentomatoes, 29 reviews (27 good, 2 bad). The movie grossed $79m overseas so far and is available on Blu-ray from Amazon France and other such location (the french blu-ray is all regions and in english).

TomOpus

I thought the trailer was pretty good. I'm sure it'll get released somehow.

Matthew Chmiel

Mark Osborne confirmed on Twitter that Paramount is no longer distributing the film and that another distributor will release it in the US later this year.

Sucks I don't speak French as it was playing in Paris when I was there this past fall.

Why So Blu?

Can you import yet from France or the UK? I'd blind buy it.

RichC2

http://www.amazon.fr/Petit-Prince-Bl...dp/B013KM45U0/

Though Amazon France has some expensive ass shipping, from $8.50 EUR (April 4 - 12) to $22.50 EUR (get it by next Wednesday). It has the English version. Amazon.co.uk carries it through 3rd party sellers, also imported from France.

and unrelated (kind of) but their title for Inside Out seems better fitting to that movie: Vice-Versa

Also, this is showing in Canada. Paramount appears to just be in financial straits after overspending on Zoolander 2's advertising, and neither it nor Whiskey Tango Foxtrot performing well.

Why So Blu?

Boom!


Just gotta see if it doesn't have forced subs.

RichC2

Netflix is the US distributor now.

milo bloom

Straight to streaming? In the old days that might've been an insult (straight to video) but these days, it's almost better.

I'll definitely be on the lookout for this.

RichC2

To be determined, but considering that's how Netflix normally does it I'd assume so.

Straight to Video/Streaming is still generally a step lower for movies, though these acquisitions that Netflix has been making (ie: Beast of No Nations, their documentaries) have been exceptions to that.

TomOpus

No specific date announced, just "later this year"...

Defiant1

Very bizarre. I saw a Paramount trailer for this when I saw Zootopia a couple weeks ago.

Daytripper

What a shame that the studio pulled the plug on this at the very last minute. I was very excited to see it.

dex14

This drops on Netflix tomorrow.

Daytripper

Wonderful film!

Eric F

Just watched this tonight and I have to say it's one of the best animated movies I've watched in ages. Yes I have a special place in my heart for the book, but the movie is so touching and well done it's a must see.

BTW: Did this movie originally have a French release? I have the sense it did. The English cast was great BTW- (Paul Giamati's last role is here).

I can't say enough good things about this movie.

davidh777

Glad to hear the good word. Also discussed here:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ce-2016-a.html

Why So Blu?

I did. I have the French BD and the film is great but I can also see why it was pulled. It's not easily accessible to kids even though the lead is a kid.

Eric F

I didn't see that. I didn't search for it because I thought it was a Netflix exclusive. Apparently not.

RichC2

Paul Giamati is still alive.

Eric F

Oops. I was thinking of James Gandolfini.

RichC2

I should have figured it was an actor actually in the movie

dom56

Just watch it on Netflix and damn it had to one of the best animated movie this year. Just a wonderful film and it's a shame it didn't get a chance to go to the theater. I found myself crying almost to the end. Check it out you won't be disappointed.

Ash Ketchum

It's playing at the IFC theater in New York. I plan to see it this week.

wahlers

The parts of the movie that are from the actual book are wonderful. The stop motion is beautiful and the voice actors do a wonderful job of delivering the lines which are often more poetic and parable than they are actual dialog.

The CG framing story was just sort of okay. It's another buy-the-number story of how cold and heartless grown-ups are and how wonderful kooky weirdos are. Way too cliche and overdown, IMHO.

All of the subtle and wonderful ways that the book itself dealt with this same topic are instead drug out in super obvious ways and shoved down the audience's throat over and over again during the course of the movie. It's sort of like they assumed everyone would be too dumb to understand the morals of the book sections and decided to just spell them out for the "dumb" movie goers.

I would absolutely love it if the animators had actually filmed the rest of the book sequences that were not in the movie and included a 30-45 minute short film of the complete book without any of the framing story.