Black Dynamite Gets October Release, Ya Dig?
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 25, 2009
One of the most talked about films of Sundance, an Audience Award winner at the Seattle Film Festival and one of the baddest mothertruckers in the world of cinema ‘09, Black Dynamite, is finally ready for release. Acquired by Sony prior to playing well at Sundance (read my review here), the Scott Sanders directed Dynamite has been touring the festival circuit throughout the spring and summer, looking for a second distribution partner. And now they’ve found one in Apparition, the fledgling distro label from Bob Berney and Bill Pohlad. This is the same company that is bringing us Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt, and The Young Victoria starring Emily Blunt.
For Dynamite, Apparition and Sony Pictures have chosen an October 16th start date to the platform release, which will allow for word of mouth to build as the film opens wider and wider. This popular release style is the same we’ve seen with many a Fox Searchlight release, allowing buzz to grow over the course of a month or so.
For those not following along all year, Black Dynamite is a spoof on the blaxploitation genre starring Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight). It is, as Apparition’s Bob Berney describes it, “a sort of Austin Powers period comedy” that sends up the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. It can best be described by its own official synopsis:
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
That’s right — your chance to take down The Man right alongside Black Dynamite begins in limited markets October 16th. I would urge you to be there, jive turkeys. For more, check out the Black Dynamite trailer below.
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