After about a year’s worth of picking up titles for a full slate, it appears the culmination of a disappointing track record from parent company Weinstein Co. in 07’, an internal disagreement on how to market the goods with this film and a late start to a marketing campaign, means that instead of shelving their titles as they had did in the past, they simply parted with it.
The drama (or horror) surrounding Dimension’s Toronto film festival pick-up has come to a end – All the Boys Love Mandy Lane has been shipped out to Senator and will be the distrib’s first foray into the all-ready too crowded U.S theatrical release market. Senator will give this Brit horror film a 1000-plus screen launch in early 2008.
Mandy Lane (Amber Heard from Alpha Dog) is beautiful. Untouched. High school royalty waiting to be crowned. Since the dawn of Junior year, men have tried to possess her. Some have even died in reckless pursuit of this 16 year-old Texas angel. Chloe and Red invite Mandy out to Red's family ranch for the weekend. Mandy sees it as an excellent opportunity to cement her new friendships. The boys see it as an opportunity to finally get with Mandy Lane. Driving across the Texas landscape, the kids begin to gently chip away at the wall that surrounds her. Joints are smoked. A keg is stolen off a beer truck. Pills are crushed to fine powder and inhaled. Mandy observes it all with the gentle interest of a foreign tourist. And they love her for it. At the ranch, all the boys start to make their move – each one hoping to be the first to attain the unattainable Mandy Lane. However, as night falls and the booze, drugs, and hormones take over, things are said and advances made which can never be reversed. Suddenly, sweet Mandy finds herself pit in a brutal struggle for survival against someone whose interest she has rejected. Forget reading, writing and arithmetic. In high school, learning to be yourself and not succumbing to peer pressure is the ultimate test. And this is one exam that Mandy is determined not to fail.
