Not in the cinema: Stone movie "W." is included free with the Sonntagsblick
"W.", the film about outgoing US President George W. Bush, was co-financed by former Jobs.ch operator Thomas Sterchi. It will be available on DVD in the Sonntagsblick on January 18. The Oliver Stone film did not make it to cinemas in Switzerland.
"W.", the film about outgoing US President George W. Bush, was co-financed by former Jobs.ch operator Thomas Sterchi. It will be available on DVD in the Sonntagsblick on January 18. The Oliver Stone film did not make it to cinemas in Switzerland.
40-year-old Thomas Sterchi, who became rich through the sale of Jobs.ch, has invested a good five million dollars in Oliver Stone's latest film. The investment should have been the big kick-off for his production company Millbrook Pictures. "I'm very happy with the movie. It really sheds light on a lot of things," Sterchi told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper last October and spoke of a real opportunity to earn money with the film by the successful Hollywood director ("JFK", "Nixon", "Platoon", "Natural Born Killers", "Born on the 4th of July"). Apparently, the project with a total budget of 30 million francs and a very tight schedule would not even have been feasible without the financial injection from Switzerland. But now the film hasn't even made it to cinemas here.
"It fell through because of our schedule. We really wanted to bring the film to the big screen during Bush's last week in office," Karl Spoerri, director of the Zurich Film Festival and co-owner of Sterchi's production company Millbrook Pictures, told the Berner Zeitung. However, the cinemas would not have had space until March. However, the response to "W." was also rather modest in the USA. Amidst all the euphoria surrounding the newly elected President Barack Obama, American audiences were not very interested in the outgoing occupant of the White House. The reviews were also rather moderate. So now the Stone film will only flicker across domestic screens. On the one hand via DVD - the film will be included in the 40th anniversary edition of Sonntagsblick on January 18 - and on the other hand the documentary will be shown on January 23 on Pro Sieben.
40-year-old Thomas Sterchi, who became rich through the sale of Jobs.ch, has invested a good five million dollars in Oliver Stone's latest film. The investment should have been the big kick-off for his production company Millbrook Pictures. "I'm very happy with the movie. It really sheds light on a lot of things," Sterchi told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper last October and spoke of a real opportunity to earn money with the film by the successful Hollywood director ("JFK", "Nixon", "Platoon", "Natural Born Killers", "Born on the 4th of July"). Apparently, the project with a total budget of 30 million francs and a very tight schedule would not even have been feasible without the financial injection from Switzerland. But now the film hasn't even made it to cinemas here.
"It fell through because of our schedule. We really wanted to bring the film to the big screen during Bush's last week in office," Karl Spoerri, director of the Zurich Film Festival and co-owner of Sterchi's production company Millbrook Pictures, told the Berner Zeitung. However, the cinemas would not have had space until March. However, the response to "W." was also rather modest in the USA. Amidst all the euphoria surrounding the newly elected President Barack Obama, American audiences were not very interested in the outgoing occupant of the White House. The reviews were also rather moderate. So now the Stone film will only flicker across domestic screens. On the one hand via DVD - the film will be included in the 40th anniversary edition of Sonntagsblick on January 18 - and on the other hand the documentary will be shown on January 23 on Pro Sieben.
