The Weinstein Company announced in an official press release today that the film The Hateful Eight will be released in 70mm on December 25, 2015 exclusively for a 1-week roadshow in 100 theaters nationwide. Following that 1 week engagement, the film will open with a theatrical digital release nationwide on December 31, 2015. The official premiere of the film happens tonight in New York at the Ziegfeld theater.
The film is written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and stars Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained), Kurt Russell (Escape From New York) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle).
THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
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Source: Official Weinstein Company Press Release
