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Scott Pilgrim vs The World Fights Hong Kong in November
Monday 9 August 2010 10:23 am
Yes, we’re groaning too…
Scott Pilgrim vs The World might be the most epic of epic movies coming out this year and is opening this coming weekend in the US. But because there is no one “famous” in it, Hong Kong won’t be seeing it until November 25, 2010.
The graphic novels are available at HMV for an amazing 2 for HK$159 price so you can get all 6 for pretty cheap and read-up on it before it goes on like Donkey Kong.
Until then you can check out this very cool interactive trailer – more cool stuff to play with than a DVD special features menu!
UPDATE: Sorry Hong Kong, Edko Films has decided NOT to release Scott Pilgrim theatrically.
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i guess the distributors WANT us to pirate the film… by November there will be a nice quality DVD version in the web…
How utterly utterly stupid from them… with these massive delays in releases they lose more money to piracy because frustrated fans grab the stuff online… utter FAIL, Mr. Pilgrim!
There are a number of reasons for this:
1. HK distro marketing dollar is weakened until November.
2. They don’t expect mass market to care about Scott Pilgrim in HK. And to be fair even Milk hasn’t covered it much and its their target demographic.
3. Not enough prints available for a day and date release.
Anyways we saw this with The Hangover last year – it was originally also supposed to come out in the Fall but because it did so well in the US, Warner Bros rushed it out here earlier.
We shall see if this weekends box office will change any scheduling here.
@ Mike, agreed 100% Expect everyone to have seen this by the time it arrives in HK leaving only those who don’t care. For HK rename it Scott Pilgrim vs. The Torrenters.
ANd the comic price at HMV is not cheap. It’s about $7 USD per book not including shipping on amazon. HMV always has a huge mark up. Anyway, agree with Mike and unicronic, movie definitely will slump against the black market/pirate competition. But even without pirating, no star power and struggling box office in North America means it won’t have enough buzz anyway. HK people are into star power and big budget stuff that the domestic film industry can’t produce; like Transformers, 2012, Avatar, etc.