At long bloody last, Bong Joon Ho's Korean box office hit, Snowpiercer, starring all manner of major international stars, has been granted a release date in the US. A rather public argument between its American distributor, The Weinstein Company, and the film's main cast and crew, over Harvey Weinstein's plans to trim the film by a whole 20 minutes, has resulted in a compromise: it'll open in limited release Stateside on the 27th of June, but in its entirety, and ofc an expansion will surely take place should prospects improve for the futuristic action epic. Weinstein is notorious for his habits of a) ruthlessly cutting films he doesn't deem marketable enough, and b) dumping foreign features into a few screens with as little advertising as possible. But online chatter for the film, which stars Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer and Ed Harris, is strong, so getting this one past its fervent fanbase may be difficult for the maverick producer. No details on a UK release as yet - it's being repped by TWC across major English-speaking territories, none of which (bar the US) have yet to be given a confirmed release.
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