Update: Publicists for Canadian distributors VVS Films confirmed the cities and dates for “Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans” bow north of the border. See below for the updated release schedule.
Hey! Guess what? So the sky isn’t falling and Werner Herzog will get his due. As some of you pointed out to us after we ran this story a few days ago, despite the very small window between the theatrical rollout of “Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans” beginning on November 20th and its home video release date of February 23rd, the film is still planning to hit screens as scheduled across the country. We got in touch with the film’s publicists who kindly forwarded us the current rollout plan, and it looks something like this:
November 20th — NY, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, DC, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal
November 25th — Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix
December 4th and/or 11th — New Orleans, Austin, Atlanta, Houston, Ottawa
With only sixteen nineteen cities with scheduled release dates so far, we followed up the film’s publicity team teams who let us know that these are just the confirmed cities as of press time, and that more playdates may be added nationally on December 11th or later. As this is a platform release, success in those markets will help push it out to more cities and theaters across the country, possibly even surpassing (though we doubt it) the 35-city plan that has been hinted to us from our sources in the know. So, if you are in one of the aforementioned cities, do us all a favor and buy a ticket.