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Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac to be released on VoD before cinemas in the US

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- American distributor Magnolia Pictures will also launch the Danish director’s film in two parts – on March 21 and April 18 – but both will be available on VoD two weeks before the cinema premieres

Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac to be released on VoD before cinemas in the US

While Danish director Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac [+see also:
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 premiered in 26 Danish cinemas on December 25 as two full-length feature films – one after the other - American distributor Magnolia Pictures will also launch the film in two parts, on March 21 and April 18. But both will be available on VoD two weeks before the theatrical premieres, Part 1 on March 6, and Part 2 on April 3, Magnolia announced in a press release.

“After the tremendous and never predictable experience of distributing von Trier’s Melancholia [+see also:
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, we couldn’t be more excited to be working with him again on Nymphomaniac,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles, adding that from the 35-40 films he releases annually, 25 go through the VoD programme with premieres on cable and iTunes a month before they reach the theatres.

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He explained to the NFTF that using VoD equation, with almost no costs and reaching more customers than the widest theatrical release, Magnolia has been able to bring in a large tent-pole of revenue almost for free.“This has enabled us to take chances on films that would otherwise be too risky, and we have been able to significantly reduce our P&A costs because of the extra exposure,” he added.

In Nymphomaniac: Part 1, an elderly bachelor (Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård), discovers Joe (French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, badly beaten up in an alley. He takes her to his home and tends to her wounds, while she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young adulthood (then portrayed by UK actress Stacy Martin); cast includes Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen and Udo Kier.

The second part picks up with Joe’s later experiences, introducing Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth and Jean-Marc Barr. At last week’s international press junket in Copenhagen, Gainsbourg watched the four-hour version of the film, which has been edited from von Trier’s original 5½-hour cut. “I was disappointed, because I was all the time seeing sequences, which weren’t there,” she told journalists.

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