$47 Million Outlander Sent To DVD-Ville By Weinstein Co?

UPDATE 2: TWC is getting back to us. Now they say tomorrow.UPDATE: A reader from Outlander.solsector.net says, "There's been no confirmation about the DVD date and nearest myself and one of the producers can tell there really isn't a date set for the DVD much less a theatrical release. Plus, The Weinstein Company is contractually obligated to give outlander at least a limited theatrical release." We'll be contacting TWC tomorrow.

Recipe: Go into the closet and dust off Castle Grayskull. Place an E.T. figurine with its arms raised on one of the turrets. Pour a goblet filled with red wine all over it. Now set it on fire. Pretend it's worth $47 million. Send a recording of this to The Weinstein Co. in New York and entitle it "Angry Outlander Fan." Kill yourself.

It's a sad day when a movie featuring Vikings battling a giant, monstrous alien with the help of a spaceman doesn't see a theatrical release. Do you know what P.T. Barnum could have done with this premise? Slashfilm planned on seeing Outlander on the big screen. Sober. We liked the trailers. We were stoked on what little buzz there was, including a super passionate plea to Ye Gods over at AICN. It wasn't a friggin' remake or a Vin Diesel movie or AVP-R, just an ever-rare shot at original genre fare. And based partially on their dedicated work, writer-director Howard McCain and fellow screenwriter Dirk Blackman were recently hired to rewrite Lionsgate's $100 mill Conan reboot.

If Outlander sucked, we were confident the post-screening laughs and riffage would have made it worthwhile, even more so than Death Race (pretty funny remake, that one). But the fact remains: we could say we were effing there. It would have been a lifetime bond or a primo /Filmcast. Alas, Dread Central has discovered a DVD listing on Amazon via Movies Unlimited for November 18th. Conclusion: it's been dumped.

There's no word from TWC on the matter, but the film's been without a release date for eons. I really hope the studio's justification isn't, "Well, Viking movies don't play" complete with a box office scientist pointing smugly to Pathfinder and The 13th Warrior. Is this the point we've reached for genre movies? "Pirates don't play," "Vikings don't play," cannibals and on down the line?" Knowing TWC, there won't be any justification. If they treated kids like movies, their basement would have been on the nightly news some time ago.

via Dark Horizons