David Cronenberg's Crimes Of The Future

[Ian Jane]

UHD release coming soon via Second Sight.

https://secondsightfilms.co.uk/colle...rder-available

Director: David Cronenberg

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart

In the near future, a couple of performance artists push the boundaries of taste and decency with daring shows of mutilation and organ mutation. All the while a shadowy government agency is closing in on a terrorist group that are pushing for the next evolution in the human experience.

Special Features:

Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
UHD presented in Dolby Vision HDR
New audio commentary by Caelum Vatnsdal
Undeniably a Love Story: an interview with Director David Cronenberg
Things Change: an interview with Actor Viggo Mortensen
The Chaos Inside: an interview with Actor Léa Seydoux
The Heat and the Grime: an interview with Actor Kristen Stewart
The Bureau Man: a new interview with Actor Don McKellar
Painkiller: a new interview with Producer Robert Lantos
The Most Wonderful Dream: a new interview with Cinematographer Douglas Koch
The Code of David: a new interview with Editor Christopher Donaldson
New Flesh, Future Crimes: The Body and David Cronenberg - a video essay by Leigh Singer
The Making of Crimes of the Future
Production Design Materials
Short film: The Death of David Cronenberg

Limited Edition Contents:

Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Marko Manev
120 page book with new essays by Reyna Cervantes, Tim Coleman, Joel Harley, Rich Johnson, Mikel J Koven, Phil Nobile Jr, Ian Schultz and Hannah Strong
6 collectors' art cards
Catalogue number: 2NDBR4192

Certificate: 18

Region: UHD Region Free / Blu-ray Region B

[Ian Jane]

[killer must kill again]

ehh... I'm in the camp of naysayers and think this was just okay. it's better than cosmopolis and has some rather neat visuals here and there, but in the end it lacks impact and is way too long. additionally the weird and irritating performances of mortensen and (most of all) kristen stewart stressed me out to the point it almost took me out of the movie. at least we get some gratuitous nudity from lea seydoux, but again nothing memorable about it, because she's showing off her bush in every other movie anyway.

[Ian Jane]

Coming 1/31/23 from Decal Releasing.

[agent999]

I really enjoyed this, just the sort of twisted pick-me-up that I needed today. Yes, the script is a mess, but I didn't really care. I just enjoyed the absurdist, strangely comforting body horror and Cronenberg's sly humour. The score was just perfect too.

But that drill to the head dummy was so fucking bad!

[Lorne Marshall]

looks good! he and his son should team up to release the ultimate body horror nightmare before the machines will finally take over.

As I’ve mentioned to some friends of mine, I predict that once AI takes over the world and can resort to its own leisure time, its two favorite movie directors will both have the same last name.

[Ian Jane]

Here's the full press release for the US Blu-ray edition.

Pre-order link: https://amzn.to/3AweMaJ

[Ian Jane]

Here's the full press release for the US Blu-ray edition.

Pre-order link: https://amzn.to/3AweMaJ

[agent999]

Getting a UK cinema release on 09/09.

[Dom D]

Damn. $2.4M in total U.S. gross. That's sad. I'm not the biggest fan (see my review earlier in this thread), but, it's worthy of being seen.

I had a quick glance but couldn't find the budget but the original swing at the script in the early 2000s was budgeted at $35 million according to wikipedia. Someones taking a bath on this thing. I wonder what the likes of Netflix and HBO would have paid to have had this film exclusively for a few months without a theatrical release. I'm sure it would have been a hell of a lot more than $2.5 million.

[JoeS]

Damn. $2.4M in total U.S. gross. That's sad. I'm not the biggest fan (see my review earlier in this thread), but, it's worthy of being seen.

[Zaibatan]

It might be a combination of the rights being comparatively expensive precisely because it's a new film by David Cronenberg and the various national distributors just not seeing enough potential audience in the marketplace right now. I am quite upset that it won't get a theatrical release until November in my country but that could also be down to the same reasons. (Another factor might be the odd but well-established belief that "horror" only works in the fall season.) I really wanted to see this theatrically but I don't have the patience to wait another 5 months.

[agent999]

I must have missed this post previously, but.... really?? No one in the UK wants to step up to release a much-publicised, arguable-return-to-form David Cronenberg film? Jeez, what's the world (or rather this stupid country) coming to...

Not sure what the status is now, but Alan Jones said it hadn't sold a couple of weeks ago, and that the poor US box office was unlikely to help.

[BW Haggar]

This damn thing still hasn't got a UK distributor (I mean, it's only a UK co-production ffs...), but there's a French UHD coming in September which I'll probably grab.

I must have missed this post previously, but.... really?? No one in the UK wants to step up to release a much-publicised, arguable-return-to-form David Cronenberg film? Jeez, what's the world (or rather this stupid country) coming to...

[Ian Jane]

Cover art and extras.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Making of Crimes of the Future - Featurette
Theatrical trailers
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature