It seems as if Eli Roth’s Green Inferno has been pulled from distributor Open Road’s release calendar. The film was scheduled for a September 5th theatrical release, but as of now, there is no date for its release. The tale of student activists who travel to the Amazon rainforest in hopes of saving it, then become part of the menu for a cannibal tribe, looks to be getting caught up in financing woes behind the scenes. Read on for more details.
Deadline is reporting, Green Inferno, the Eli Roth-directed film has been taken off Open Road’s release calendar. The film was scheduled for wide release on September 5. It’s rumored this happened because financier Worldview Entertainment is balking at ex-CEO Christopher Woodrow’s commitment to provide the P&A.
Deadline has confirmed from Open Road that the release date is scratched, though the distributor won’t comment further, including whether there will be a later release date or if this goes straight to video. Worldview has been going through a restructure since the abrupt and largely unexplained exit of CEO Woodrow.
The company, now run by Molly Conners, put a freeze on all of Woodrow’s extravagant commitments and is scrutinizing every deal that was made. Green Inferno has been caught in that snare. It looks from here like the scrapping of Green Inferno from Open Road’s fall schedule has little to do with the quality of the film Roth directed, co-wrote and produced. Deadline reports Worldview doesn’t intend to leave Roth high and dry, and behind the scenes talks are going on to try and figure this out.
Let us hope this behind the scenes bullsh*@ gets resolved quickly.
Source: Deadline
