I don´t really understand why Lionsgate is doing this to its film; since I saw the first trailer I´m amazed and I´m really looking foward to ir. Sadly, I live in Argentina and if this problem with the limited release happens in USA, "Midnight Meat Train" is going straight to DVD here in my country. Too bad!

I can confirm that it's opening at dollar theatres...and only dollar theatres in my area (NE). When I did an area search on Fandango, only one theatre came up. I was confused and thought it had to be a typo, but it's not. A run down, rickety theatre that almost no one goes to is the only theatre for miles that is showing it. Very, very odd.

BLOODY FUCKING HELL.

i'm "lucky"(if you can call it that!LOL), MMT is coming here to Seattle at (guess), our $2.00 cinema!! WTF!! Clive Barker (and the folks who made this movie!) deserve RESPECT, Lionsgate!!! as much as i'm excited to be going on Friday to see it, i'm saddened by the horrid treatment the this movie/Clive have received from LG.

Since everyone is so concerned about how much money a film makes, I should remind you that you are not limited to paying the price advertised. Most theaters, even the dollar ones, will gladly accept more. So, feel free to fork over $100 a ticket if it makes you feel better. How dare they actually give the public a bargain! Flog them!

They're not giving the public a bargain... if they were doing it FOR the fans, then it would be pretty awesome, but there's a business purpose behind it that helps Lionsgate profit at the filmmakers expense. I might have discovered what is going on, trying to see if I can firm up everything before reporting. This is CRAZY.

It's not even playing all the dollar theaters... we have plenty of 2nd run theaters in LA, but the only place it's playing is in Norwalk, which is like an hours' drive east.

sounds like a tax write off or an excuse to say horror doesn't make any money so they can drop it all together and produce emo porn.

Its playing at the 1$ movies on Friday here in Arizona also, Definitely gonna see it, I'm not gonna complain as I'm tight on money right now.

Why doesn't live Barker just sue Lionsgate and sell teh rights to teh film to a different dsitributor?! I would they raped his contract!

What a strange move. I'm not sure how the theater business works in terms of getting a film played in a particular place, but it seems like a bad business decision to dump it into discount theaters upon release. At least, on the upside, maybe this will encourage people to check it out since they don't have to pay 75 dollars a ticket.

DOLLAR THEATER? i aint seen one of them since 1987!

MrDisgusting, THANK YOU very much for looking in to this travesty! this is just not right what LG is doing here.

This is fucking bullshit with a capitol B. The local theater ?I/ attend here in Brooklyn, NY, had a poster for this film and I was all geeked to see it. 2 weeks ago when I went to see The Dark Knight, the poster was gone and they told me at the box office that the movie was pulled at the last minute. Does anyone know if anyplace in NY City is getting this? I swear it seems like horror has been nil at the box office this year.

WHAT OMG that is retarted ive been waiting for this movie for like over a year. Now its not even going to come to our theater well i dont know if it would have come to our theater (a Galaxy theater in our small and crappy mall in St.Thomas Ontario). Are there even dollar theaters, i have never heard of those. And this movie looks like it could bring in some big bucks to. I mean Vinnie Jones, Bradley Cooper, and Brooke Shields. COME ON

Its my understanding that Lionsgate was contractually obliged to release the film in 100 theaters. So those wacky executives decided to say fuck you to Clive Barker and his fans. The worst part is even if it was going into REAL theaters, they woukd probably mess with the numbers and call it a loss. I will write more about this in my blog later tonight SD

yup, this is some bogus douchebaggery!!

Devil-Josh, go to boxofficemojo.com. that's where i found out it was coming to Seattle. i DO believe it's coming to at least 1 theater in NY.

Devil-Josh, i read on another site, that it's ONLY coming to a theater in Rochester.

bullshitbullshitbullshit

This is insane. The filmmakers should sue the bloody crap out of LG. I know I would if they tried to pull this on me.

An Ohio dollar theater is also getting it.

That's ridiculous, this would have made like 18 million over teh weekend if it was well advertised. It would perform like Thestrangers, I would have imagined. Lionsgate suck.

so the movie's THAT bad?

What the fuck?! They're doing this to The Midnight Meat Train, they're messing with REPO! too.. I guess we are all screwed =(