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 =(

BloodyCape, just about every review i've read for this movie said it's EXCELLENT.

Several theaters in my area had MMT listed as "coming soon" until yesterday, when I started checking for showtimes. As of right now, all of those theaters pulled the listings, and it is now only opening in one dollar theater in Pittsburgh and one in Youngstown, Ohio. I have to believe this is - at least in part - a big "Fuck You" from LionsGate in response to Clive Barker trying to mobilize fans over the past few weeks to get this film a proper release. Fans REALLY need to remember this and skip Saw 5 when it opens in October. If LionsGate shows us no love, why should we show them any?

Fucking Rochester? Jesus H Christ you know this is fucking funny. For a town that used to play all of John Water's films, I drink your Blood, I spit on your Grave, and every porno known to man, someplace here in the city would have gotten this. Fucking arrrggg. And what do we get for a horror movie this year...Fucking Saw 5? Christ Lions Gate was badass and released House of 1000 Corpses when nobody wanted to release it! I usually don't get mad like this over a movie but this has chapped my ass to leather!

I have to take a 30 min bus ride to the $1 theater in a shitty suburb to see this movie.. but Saw 5 will hit 3,000+ theaters... this is crap

LG is the new Dimension... except instead of fucking with the film's content, they fuck with the release. Doing same thing to Repo, Burrowers...

i emailed lionsgate earlier... ok, we emailed you and asked you nicely to let us watch the midnight meat train with a wide screen release, and what do you do? you release it to discount and dollar movie theaters in the darkest dingiest corners of our nation! that's how you want to treat your customers? ok, that's fine, but from here on out any movie with lionsgate on it belongs in the dollar theater. i've never heard of a film getting released to discount theaters! this is the dumbest way of distributing movies and running a business i can think of. hopefully more people are fed up with these kinds of corporate business shenanigans and will feel the way i feel about it. good luck in the future, may you go bankrupt asap! lionsgate is dead to me and i will spend many hours convincing others that your distribution company is a joke!

well said, demogorgon.

This is beyond lame! I just hit IMDB and typed in like 7 random big cities across the US and gave each a 50 mile radius...3 theaters! I love the movies that Lionsgate releases but this is a slap in the face to Clive Barker and us fans. Does LGF know its messing with Pandora's Box?

I checked, and here in Dallas it is opening Friday in $1 theaters. This doesn't make sense. I have never seen a new movie put in this situation, and all I can think of is that someone involved with this movie pissed off the distributor. The company must want to make their money back, but they can only be making a few cents per ticket at a $1 theater.....something is going on.

We live in central CA, and it's playing in the $2 Cinemark Movies 12 theater in Lancaster beginning on Friday. This is a less-than-two-hour drive from L.A. up quiet Hwy 14 for anyone down there who'd like to see it.

I mean, I guess I'd rather have have them fuck with the distribution than with the films content, but that's just the lesser of 2 evils. this fucking sux. I'm all for a lionsgate boycott.

Forgive me if this has already been reported here, but from what I read (according to Eiga-Hiho magazine last month) the new head of Liongsgate of whom I forgot his name, hates horror and wants to give the studio a new image so he's giving Midnight the worst possible release, and not a direct to DVD but a theatrical one since it's in the contract. Probably, Saw 5 was safe since the franchise has been so popular.

I use to have so much respect for Lionsgate because of their horror background, but now I see they're no better than Universal or Sony Pictures. This and Repo both deserve a full release, but to go as far as to put this in dollar theaters is just a slap in the face. BOOO to Lionsgate!

What could Clive Barker have done to deserve this? The only explanation that comes to mind is if he actually did something to piss off the producers or studio. The last I heard the reviews for the movie were great, so why treat it like the bastard of your 2008 lineup? You play teasers for it along with wide release movies and then give us something worst than a limited release. I thought their handling of Repo was bad, but at least they mentioned a DVD release date with that one. This, on the other hand, is them intentionally pissing us off. This isn't just incompetence. This is cruelty.

meaning don't support Bangkok Dangerous, Disaster Movie, Religulous, or My Best Friends Girl. What a sacrifice.

or Saw 5. (duh.)

Lionsgate.com does not list the film anywhere. They are trying to disown it. The filsm website hasn't even been updated since it launched. I think the campaign Clive Barker started pissed off that new manager at Lionsgate. What a waste of money.

To quote Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. "I say we blow the fuckers up!"

that campaign he started, i say we crank it up a notch!

Why don't all us boycott Saw V? I will just watch it for free as I work ina cinema. But I will enver support Lionsgate unless there's something worth it and apart from Midnight Meat Train there isnt.

I still say we blow the fuckers up.

Sigh!!! Unbelivable....it's not even playing in NYC. just in one theater in upstate NY. Well the good reviews I've read so far will have me preordering it on amazon I guess.

how about waiting to see saw v till it goes to the dollar theater!!

Dick movie by Lionsgate. They should hurry up and release it on dvd so that people can actually get to see it.

we can only assume the DVD release will be THE most barebones, full screen(just to piss of widescreen fans) release.

Fuck it, I'm going to do something I've never done before and buying myself a bootleg for $3.00 from a Chinaman.. Then we blow the fuckers up!

this is such an immature move from lionsgate. I mean it doesn't even seem to make financial sense.

they're flipping us off and saying 'what are you gonna do about it?'

Everyone. Please Digg this post. lets get the masses to now about it!

I'm seriously thinking of finding out where the NY office is pulling some of my own MMT on those assholes. I can do it in the name of Jihad, lol. We have every right to be pissed off about this and if they want to ban me from this site for saying my piece then goddamn it fucking do it because we the horror lovers of America will not stand down!

Sorry for the rants guys this just chaps my ass.

I am very curious as to how Lion's Gate benefits from a small release to dollar theaters. I look forward to Mr. D's follow up piece.

Devil-Josh, we are angry right there with you. Lionsgate literally said to Clive (and the makers of the film) and to us horror fans, "FUCK YOU".

I respect Barker and now I'm worring what will happen to Book of Blood.

Utterly disgusting. I live in northern NJ and was planning a trip with at least 4 friends to go see this wherever it was, Philly, NYC, Baltimore, wherever. Hell, sometimes I get really lucky and my local arthouse theater gets it. Typed in my zip code and boxofficemojo informed me that the closest theater was 160 miles away in the middle of Pennsylvania. And the release there is delayed until next Wednesday! After buying the DVD of MMT and Repo (if it lives up to the hype), I'm done with this Lionsgate bullshit. Unbelievable!

check out this clip of Barker introducing the movie for a screening at Fantasia(?). he mentions LG trying to stop the release!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zACW5gZUI

I was actually going to avoid seeing The Mummy 3 this weekend in order to see this film. I cannot get over enough how angry this makes me.

So can anyone explain how it makes financial sense for Lionsgate to do this? I can't really figure that out.

Recently met the screenwriter, who is really frickin cool and nice as all hell. He reported that this is a battle between the original owner of lionsgate (who was totally backing the film and behind it all the way) and the new owner who has replaced him who has a personal vendetta against the original owner. He's takin all funding from promotion and has stuck the movie in little theatres. For those of you like me who live in Los Angeles, MMT is playing at the Nuart on the 15th at midnight in santa monica, its on fandango but you cant buy advanced tickets (of course). I also met clive the other day, he didnt mention MMT but he was really frickin nice, these filmmakers do not deserve this! they put all their passion, time and money into this and we, horror fans all want to see it! lionsgate is now bullshit, because of this new owner.

WOW THIS IS FUCKED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A FUCKING SLAP IN THE FACE. THIS SHIT IS NOT RIGHT!FUCK LIONSGATE! WTF!!!!!!!

bullshitbullshitbullshitbullshit

poor Clive! he does NOT deserve to be treated this way (well, nobody does --except maybe LG!). i met him back when i lived in W.Hollywood CA. he was SO nice and friendly when he came into the video store where i worked (Video West on Larrabee st), that he gave me premiere passes to Hellraiser 3. what a generous and kind man.

what the hell is going on!!!!!!!! has LionsGate lost their fucking minds? there has to be a reason behind this madness....but theres nothing that i can think of that would make any sense at all

Fucking politics...Isn't that the way it always is, guys? Fucking politics. We the fans are made to suffer over some kiddy bullshit like this. I was on Talkblogradio tonite and I expressed my anger to some people there about what happened and the fans there only assumed the film was being delayed. When I told them the shit that was happening, I made a point to let the guys from Movie Geeks Unite know the kind of shit that's being done to us.

FUCK Lionsgate. All they care about is money. Actually not EVEN that makes sense, because if they wanted money, this would be opening wide....it's VERY confusing.

This IS NOT opening anywhere in Chicago...this blows dick...

I am NEVER buying a ticket (or the DVD) to a Lionsgate film ever again.

I noticed 3 new dollar type theatres in Socal showing this, in Norwalk, and temecula. tickets aren't available yet on movietickets.com, but it looks like the theatre in Norwalk is showing it on 2 screens. Coming from south orange county, I wouldn't want to drive 3 hours in traffic to lancaster to see it, but Norwalk or temecula is doable. No midnight thursday showings though? What the hell?!

FUCK LIONSGATE!!!! I PISS ON THEIR CORPORATE DOUCHEBAG CORPSES!!!

oh yea, there's a theatre in Moreno valley showing this as well.

this is fucking ridiculous. all Lionsgate cares about is their fucking Saw movies. way to throw away all the potential they had. dickholes.

Lionsgate, fuck Saw, Meat Train & Repo is where it's at.

I live in Minnesota and the only place it's playing in the state is at the Brookdale 8 Discount Theatre in Brooklyn Center.

Apparently it is playing at the Nuart on Santa Monica Blvd. on Friday Night at the midnight show. I assume it will be the 10.00 admisssion.

Yeah, wtf is Lionsgate doing? Like everybody else mentioned, I've heard nothing but great reviews. This sucks, and I was planning on seeing it on my off day, this Friday.

i checked joe drake's imdb page and he's the exec producer of several horror films coming up, including drag me to hell. sam raimi heads up or you'll be selling venues in the dollar theaters, too. i thought someone said he doesn't like horror but he's producing alot of it! not to mention alot of bullshit drama!!

Swear the movie industry is all fucked up these days.

unfotunately, he's producing, GET THIS EVERYONE, The Grudge 3, Boogeyman 3 (as well as some others. well THESE 2 movies are MUCH better than MMT.

I've done searches and it hits a few Cinemarks in Dallas and a nice theater in Little Rock. Wish it would hit the new indie theater in Shreveport, La, but I'll go the extra 4 hours to see it. This is so retarded. Horror boxoffice got them where they are today and if they think they can fucking bite the hand that fed them, they better fucking think twice! Tyler Perry movies will only make money until they burn everyone out on it. Then what do they have? A bunch of angry horror fans.

We need to do a Million Man March but with horror fans.

Lol. The Million Fan March? :P

I guess we can forget about this coming to Canada! assholes!

You know, this is going to make you guys laugh but I had a mild stroke a few weeks back and I've been calm, cool, collected, and relaxed since...Something as trivial as this has got my blood pressure so jacked up that I could have another episode.....Over a goddamn movie but dammit we've been getting screwed for too long.

THis is fucking sad!! FUCK YOU LG, MAY YOU REST IN PIECES!

Devil-Josh, be healthy!! =/

I'll live. Kinda sad and funny how something as simple as a movie could get me so worked up....But sometimes.

I can't believe this movie is having so much trouble. WHY THE FUCK!?

Every ones sending an email or 2, right? I know I am.

So by this only getting limited release in the US, this means it wont go theatrical in Australia. I've been waiting for it's release frever and i want it to make as much money as possible. Lionsgate, im dissapointed

Ya Josh be cool....I'll make these assholes pay...

This is almost as bad as Trick R Treat!

I was thinking the same thing, RE....Whatever happened to Trick or Treat? Swear what's the big ass deal of releasing all these movies? Hell give the movie to Tromma and have them release it. At least Lloyd Kaufman would have people dressed as the characters and doing shows and really going Ballyhoo on the entire thing.

Clive Barker must have pissed em off BIG TIME if they are moving in such sleazy ways. I say FUCK you Lionsgate, i would MUCH rather see Midnight Meat Train in a normal cinema than the same old Saw sequels. I live in Europe so i guess that means we might not even get a proper R2 DVD release????? WTF?

This will be the LAST time clive works with LG lmao!!!! I hope he tells all his director friends...to stay away. BY BYE Lionsgate....the GATEs have closen.

See everybody is getting hit by this shit and as usualy the media could care less because they're too worried about Shia getting busted for his DUI!

By the way, whoever has MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN playing near them, better go see it about 10 TIMES! And tell EVERYONE you know to do the same. Let's show Lionsgate that MEAT TRAIN will make millions, even if only in 100 theaters!! Than they'll have to expand it won't they?

My messages have been sent. I fully support this cause.. Lionsgate has been going downhill in the decision-making department, as of late. Truely a shame that something like this is happening.

Apparently the "keasterling@lionsgate.com" e-mail is no longer working. I just had the e-mail returned to me. :/

What a fucking travesty!!! MMT would have resurrected Clive Barker films and this movie looks the business , has a good cast and all and being released like this. Shame, shame shame LG.

Sweet, it's playing 15 minutes away from my house.

"We reported awhile back that the film was slated..." Stated, it was stated.

We've been digging all night, got some leads. Have some interviews planned for tomorrow and are going to try and get word from Drake himself. Hopefully we won't be bringing you a "no comment"