![]() ![]() Lionsgate's faith in "Bleeding Steel" could be a tentative step in the right direction, though their reasons for singling out this Australia-set superhero/scifi-comedy dud are-at this moment in time and based largely on the film's quality-mystifying. ![]() (The film's American publicists claim that Lionsgate's July release of "Bleeding Steel" "is not a re-release" since they are repping an English-dubbed version of the film while the "Chinese" language cut originally screened in America this past December.) To be fair: the film was not initially distributed in America by Lionsgate, but rather Chinese distributors United Entertainment Partners. It's a sad fact that American film distributors consider Asian movies-even record-breaking blockbusters like " Wolf Warrior 2" and " Baahubali 2: The Conclusion"-to be niche imports. American companies, like Sony Pictures and the Weinstein Company in the past, either bury or negligibly release most Asian films that are distributed here in America because they think that these films do not have an audience worth pitching to beyond native language speakers.Ĭase in point: Lionsgate Premiere is now re-releasing "Bleeding Steel," the last of Hong Kong super-star Jackie Chan's four 2017 titles, after dumping the film in a handful of US theaters last December (including Manhattan's Loews 34th Street 14).
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