In a pandemic moment where The War With Grandpa gets headlines for topping the weekend box office with just $3.6 million, is it possible for films with stars and reasonable budgets to make a go of it while the two biggest theatrical markets, New York and Los Angeles, remain closed? Next to try will be Honest Thief , the Liam Neeson action film that opens Friday. Distributor Open Road tells Deadline that the film will go with a wide theatrical release, and no VOD. It will open in four different formats: Imax, Dolby Vision, 4DX and D-Box. Tom Ortenberg , who reemerged at Open Road when Josh Green’s Raven Capital relaunched the distributor, said that the film has secured over 180 Imax screens to go with about 2400 theaters in the U.S. “ Honest Thief is the right movie for this moment in cinemas,” Ortenberg told Deadline. “Liam is a big box office star, and the movie is great escapist entertainment. We have to of course balance this with an acknowledgement of a tough moviegoing environment, and certain theaters and cities still closed. But there is not much competition, which creates an opportunity for the movie marketplace. […]
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