Less than a week to The Irish. The list of cinemas where it will be screened The Irish . This is certainly not the kind of movie news we were planning to publish in Postposmo. But the panorama is what it is: one more than a candidate for best film of 2019 (With the permission of Parasites) is going to be released on the billboard of forty Spanish theaters (the definitive number is 45, although the distributor indicates that the list could undergo modifications). Of course, it is not the premiere that one would expect for a film that is being unanimously applauded by critics and that currently has an average rating of 94 in Metacritic.
*Update 11/11/2019
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Tristar has just made public the list of cinemas that are premiering The Irishman in Spain this Friday. We have modified the list that we had initially included as a result of the consultation in filmaffinity, South Journal, North Multiplex, Casablanca Cinemas and Odeon Multiplexes. Tristar had not released any theater listings until four days before The Irishman was released.
Cinemas in Spain where The Irishman opens
If we remember the situation that was presented to us movie lovers last year with Roma, by Alfonso Cuarón, we have reasons for optimism (or not total despair, if you prefer). Roma it was only released in three cinemas in Spain (the Verdi in Madrid and Barcelona, and the Albéniz hall in Málaga). With less than a week to go until we reach the release date of The Irish (November 15), the silence around its distribution has been almost absolute. Tristar only advanced the list of 45 cinemas last Monday:
MADRID
Press Palace
Count Duke Alberto Aguilera
Verdi Cinemas
MAJADAHONDA
SOUK Cinemas
VALLADOLID
Casablanca
BASIN
Multiplexes
SEGOVIA
Light of Castile
ZAMORA
Multiplex Valderaduey
TENERIFE
Price
Victor
BARCELONA
Verdi Cinemas
Verdi Park Cinemas
boliche
Phenomena
Balmes
Las Arenas
GIRONA
Albéniz
KILLED
Promotion
SEA AWARD
L´Friendship
REIXARCH MOUNTAIN
Cinemas Montcada
VILLAFRANCA DEL PENEDES
Couple
SITGES
Retreat Cinemas
SANT PERE DE RIBES
Cinema Ribes
SANT BOI
Multiplex Sant Boi
SAINT CUGAT
Multiplex Sant Cugat
PALAMOS
Multiplexes
MALLORCA
City Cinema
VALENCIA
Babel Cinemas
EAGLES
Cinemas The Stove
SEVILLA
Cinema Zone
GRANADA
Megarama Cinemas
HUELVA
Aqualon
MALAGA
Albéniz
ANTEQUERA
Multiplexes Antequera
MARBELLA
Goya Theater
SANTANDER
cinema los angeles
LA CORUNA
Cantons Cinemas
VIGO
Plaza Elíptica
North Cinemas
SANTIAGO
Compostela Cinemas
Numax Cinemas
PONTEVEDRA
Cineexpo
Ourense
Cinemas Ponte Vella
FERROL
Duplex Cinemas
NURSERY
Viveiro Cinemas
LUGO
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The Irishman: a premiere "misfortune"
After its premiere in these Spanish cinemas, The Irish will make the leap to Netflix on November 27. After having financed the 140 million dollars that the new Martin Scorsese film has cost, Netflix has refused to allow the film to be distributed just as he would have done in the good old days of Hollywood (what Scorsese himself would say). For its part, theaters have not welcomed the very short window of exclusive exposure that the film would enjoy. Somewhere in between this strange kind of understanding has been reached for which there is virtually no precedent.
John Fithian, president of the National Association of American Cinemas (NATO), has described the panorama that the theatrical release is experiencing The Irish as "unfortunate". The problem is not, by far, exclusive to Spain:
"It is very disappointing that Netflix and its owners have not found a way to put a Martin Scorsese film on many screens," Fithian said. "A first-rate director like Scorsese, a cinephile who has made some of the most important films in history."