Movie echoing Virginia Tech massacre to premiere in New York after year delay

[Trainspotter]

Movie echoing Virginia Tech massacre to premiere in New York after year delay

HONG KONG - A Meryl Streep movie about a Chinese graduate student studying in the U.S. who turns violent has secured an American release date in New York City after being postponed following the deadly Virginia Tech shootings, its distributor said Friday.

 

"Dark Matter," which also stars Liu Ye, one of China's rising stars, will debut in New York on April 11 and be released in other American cities after that, Gary Rubin, president of First Independent Pictures, told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

 

Rubin said the film, directed by Chinese-born director Chen Shizheng, had been scheduled for release last year, but producers and investors shelved the movie "out of respect for the Virginia Tech incident."

 

The release date comes a year after a Korean-American student killed 32 people and himself at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

 

From: - February 15, 2008

[error46146]

i guess that was pretty bad timing for that movie.

[DOB2RTO]

It should of been released on it's regular date. The Virgina nutjob was Korean not Chinese. This is just racist, saying they are all the same. Actually race wise they are the same (mongoloid)...... They are ethnitist.

[sebbieprops]

I really don't see how postponing the movie is going to help any.