:47 PM, October 12, 2011ι Lou Lumenick
It wasn't that long ago that if you won a Best Actor or a Best Actress Oscar, your movies were pretty much guaranteed a theatrical release if not an awards campaign, deserved or not. These days, they're lucky to make even a token appearance in theaters. "Trespass'' with past winners Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage, is getting what's likely to be a one-week, contractually-mandated booking only at Loews East Village in this area beginning Friday following its premiere at last month's Toronto International Film Festival and ahead of its Nov. 1 appearance on home video.
A block away at another popular vanity booking venue, the Village East, "Father of Invention'' with Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey, opens Friday, just 11 days ahead of its video debut.
At least they made it to New York, however briefly, and presumably Los Angeles.
"Main Street,'' a movie that this year's Oscar-winning Best Actor Colin Firth made just before "The King's Speech,'' got a one-week run in a single theater in some unidentified locale beginning on Sept. 9 (total gross, according to Box Office Mojo: $2560). I'd never heard of this movie -- which features Horton Foote's last screenplay (he died in '09) and premiered at the 2010 Austin Film Festival -- until I got a release today announcing its Nov. 15 bow on home video.
A website called Indy Week has the whole, sad story of this $10 million production -- shot on location in Durham, NC -- whose formidable cast includes Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn, Andrew McCarthy, and, um, Orlando Bloom. The film has a perfect 0 percent positive rating at Rotten Tomatoe
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/oscar_winners_films_getting_bum_gFktR3eWSbp9e2laAXjsLO#ixzz1c119kGzB
