Richard Gere’s movie “Hachi: A Dog’s tale” goes straight to DVD.

// December 23rd, 2009 // What's Poppin

Sony is sending “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” straight to DVD.

It’s a surprising move, given that the movie boasts Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom and a big star in lead actor Richard Gere. Add in a heartwarming true story about a loyal pooch and you’d think it would stand to clean up at the box office.

No word yet on why Stage 6 (a division of Sony) decided to forgo a U.S. release for the movie, but the studio did confirm the move to TheWrap.

The DVD has a street date of March 9, 2010.

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3 Responses to “Richard Gere’s movie “Hachi: A Dog’s tale” goes straight to DVD.”

1. syahrul ginanjar says:

   November 24, 2010 at 6:23 am

   Dear” Mr Richard Gere, please introduce my self my name syahrul ginanjar and friend from Bandung Indonesia. i’m so happy, because Mr Richard so very Handsom and many fans Indonesia hope and visit in Jakarta or Bandung. God Bless you,and Pray for Indonesia. Wassior.Merapi and Mentawai, thank you.
2. LFCadmin says:

   December 28, 2009 at 6:50 am

   Antoine Fuqua sucks I don’t even know why he is directing this is the same jerk off that got kicked out of the project “American Gangster” cause he was already over budget day 2 of the shoot. I’m not even looking forward to “Brooklyn’s Finest” on boot leg.
3. Richard Troche says:

   December 24, 2009 at 11:38 am

   Richard Gere is the man but I like to see more on his new movie Brooklyns Finest written by Michael C.Martin and directed by Antoine Fuqua.
   Check out this artical from NY Times on Screen Writer Michael C. Martin:
   In 2005 a car accident left him injured and his 1991 Lincoln Mark VII totaled. While he would need three months of physical therapy to deal with a bulging disc in his back, his obsession focused less on mending than on making some extra cash to buy a new car. Surfing the Web one day he came across a call for submissions in a screenwriting competition. The grand prize was $10,000. So he began to write the first scenes of what he called “kind of an epic”: the intertweaving stories of three police officers who have misplaced their moral compasses and grown to hate themselves a little along the way.

   “I didn’t expect ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ to get made,” Mr. Martin said. “It wasn’t Hollywood overnight. It was, ‘I’m still working my 9 to 5, and I’m still writing, and I’m still trying to make my dream happen.’ ”

   Mr. Martin did not win that contest. He came in second, winning copies of IFP newsletter, which offers articles about the independent film scene. But his script got the attention of a few people in the business. Soon he had an agent and a chance to write an episode of “Sleeper Cell,” the Showtime series, since canceled, about terror cells in America and the agents who track them.

   About a year after the contest Mr. Martin’s agent submitted the script to Warner Brothers on spec for a job writing the sequel to the urban cult film “New Jack City.” It landed in a pile of scripts on the desk of the producer Mary Viola. She liked it so much that she not only wanted Mr. Martin to do the “New Jack City” project but proposed that the “Brooklyn’s Finest” script be made into a feature-length movie.

   Within weeks the project got the go-ahead. Mr. Martin was paid $200,000 for the script with handsome box-office incentives. After Mr. Fuqua came on board, the big-name cast (Wesley Snipes also stars as a drug dealer recently released from prison) quickly signed on, many taking large pay cuts to work on the film, budgeted at about $25 million.