This article comes to us from LA Times.
Walt Disney Studios has told the producers of its Miramax movies “The Debt” and “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” that it won’t be releasing the films because of the pending sale of the specialty division.
The two pictures are being sold to newly created Filmyard Holdings, whose partners include Ron Tutor and private equity fund Colony Capital, as part of its $660-million acquisition of Miramax Films, expected to close by the end of the year.
Disney had originally planned to release “The Debt,” a thriller about a Nazi war criminal directed by “Shakespeare in Love’s” John Madden, on Dec. 29 and “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” a horror film produced by “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo del Toro, on Jan. 21. The studio had already started early advertising for the pictures, including a well-received trailer for “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.” Disney took “The Debt,” which stars “Avatar’s” Sam Worthington and “The Queen’s” Oscar-winning Helen Mirren, to September’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Del Toro said he was devastated by the news.
“It’s been 13 years trying to make this movie, and we finally make it,” he said of the movie about an estate whose basement is inhabited by devilish creatures. “It’s quite shocking. I am trying to see the silver lining in this.”
Added producer Mark Johnson, who was informed of Disney’s decision by the studio’s production President Sean Bailey today: “We were primed to come out. It’s pretty disastrous.”
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