First, because I think its damned interesting. I’m telling you about Red Rock’s rocky road to the big screen for two reasons. The film quickly broke The Roxie’s in-house box office record and secured a wider domestic showing. Banning obtained the rights to screen Red Rock, and began exhibiting the film only two weeks before its slated DTV release. As luck would have it, one of the people in attendance at a Red Rock TIFF screening was Bill Banning, the owner of San Fransisco’s Roxie Cinema, and the man single-handedly responsible for Red Rock’s domestic theatrical release. And by chance Piers Handling, the then-director of the Toronto International Film Festival, happened to catch a screening in Paris in the summer of ’93 and resolved to show the film at the festival that coming fall. While Red Rock had been denied a stateside debut, it screened successfully on the international circuit.
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