If you can’t sell it. Distribute it! Rather than letting a title collect dust or selling at a big loss, an uncomfortable scenario that happens to the best of film studios (see Magnolia’s The Burning Plain as a recent example) and this is exactly the dilemma that Myriad Pictures has found itself in with Cry of the Owl. THR reports that the company has plans to release the thriller in theaters before the chilly weather really sets in. They have a deal with Paramount for VOD, DVD.
Written and directed by video helmer Jamie Thraves, the adaptation of the 1962 novel by Patricia Highsmith sees Julia Stiles playing a woman who falls in love with her stalker. Patty Considine will play the man who moves to Stiles’ suburban town and begins spying on her. Her jilted ex, complicates matters further when he plots revenge against her. I’ve been curious about the film for some time now (I consider myself a fan of Considine’s work) – but I have a feeling that this would work best on home video.
