Fangoria
March 8, 2007
Dimension sending ROGUE direct to DVD
By Michael Gingold
We didn't want to believe it when we first got wind of this news, but a little digging confirmed it: ROGUE, writer/director Greg McLean's follow-up to WOLF CREEK, is being sent straight to DVD by The Weinstein Company/Dimension on May 20. Fango had heard recently that Dimension had removed the giant-crocodile thriller, which stars Radha (PITCH BLACK) Mitchell and ALIAS' Michael Vartan (pictured), from its most recent April 20 theatrical berth; the movie played release-date chicken earlier this year with Hollywood Pictures' similarly themed PRIMEVAL, only for the latter to be tossed out, sans any reference to its reptilian content in the ads, in early January to extreme box-office indifference. Now, with early word coming down that PRIMEVAL will hit disc in June, the Weinsteins evidently want to beat it to the punch on the home-viewing front, at least.
It's a sad fate for McLean's film, which won a rave from a Fango source who caught an early test screening (see those comments here). No details on DVD special features, if any, have yet been announced; we'll keep you posted. In a related development, it appears that Billy O'Brien's well-reviewed Irish killer-livestock flick ISOLATION will also go the straight-to-disc route via First Look June 26. We'll let you know anything more we hear about this one as well.
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