Overview
- Warner Bros. Clockwork announced an extension of the limited theatrical run, citing popular demand for the newly restored director’s cut.
- The reissue opened in roughly 350 North American locations and grossed about $1.725 million, yielding an approximate $4,925 per-screen average.
- The release uses a new 4K picture transfer from the original camera negatives and an audio restoration from the original composite 35mm mag, completed at WB’s restoration facilities.
- The shown cut follows the 2004 reconstruction supervised by Ken Russell and editor Michael Bradsell with Mark Kermode and Paul Joyce, and the distributor says it will monitor ticket sales with a reduced second-week footprint of about 315 locations.
- Festival champions and filmmakers backed the remaster on the festival circuit and the reissue makes Russell’s previously censored version broadly accessible, likely renewing critical and public debate over the film’s explicit religious and sexual imagery.