Mao dances its way into the US
The highest grossing Australian film of 2009, Mao’s Last Dancer, has finally secured a release in the United States, through independent distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films.
“The team in the US wanted to know all about the strategy releasing the film in Australia and how the film attracted both art house and mainstream audiences with an extraordinarily broad age range,” producer Jane Scott told Encore.
The deal follows sales to New Zealand – where it is currently screening, with a NZ$1.15m box office result to date -, Singapore, Canada, Greece, Portugal, Scandinavia, Germany, Japan, Latin America, South Africa, Israel, Middle East, Switzerland, Korea and the former Yugoslavia.
I wish ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ every success in the US….I just hope American audiences are intelligent and sophisticated enough in world affairs to get it, the way Australian audiences did, and stupid critics here didn’t in their snobbish insecurity! It is an awesome film and should have won every award at the 2009 AFI’s.
It’ll be a great movie.
Bruce Greenwood’s in it–so it’s got a lot going for it right there.
Can’t wait to see it!