All the Boys Love When The Film Gets Distributed

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After 7 long years since its outstanding Toronto Film Festival debut, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is finally set for a U.S. release.  The U.S. rights for the film were picked up by Radius-TWC, who are planning a late-summer multi-platform launch.  This film stars the beautiful Amber Heard as Mandy Lane, a good girl who becomes the target of everyone’s affections after returning for a new school year.

This film marked the directorial debut of Jonathan Levine, who went on to direct the films 50/50 and more recently Warm Bodies.  All the Boys Love Mandy Lane had an estimated production budget of $600,000 and was shot in Austin, Texas.  After the sensational screening at the Toronto Film Festival, this film sparked an all-night auction that ended with a winning bid of $3.5 million by The Weinstein Company, who committed the film to 800 screens.  However that didn’t happen because according to the Weinstein’s, they didn’t want to risk another bomb after the theatrical failure of 2007’s Grindhouse. 

A year later, The Weinstein Company sold the film to a new German backed film company, Senator Entertainment US.  They planned to make All the Boys Love Mandy Lane as its first big theatrical release.  Unfortunately, that didn't happen because Senator Entertainment US went out of business before the release.  Throughout all of the years that this film was in distribution limbo, Tom Quinn co-president of Radius-TWC, kept track of the film.  When he and Jason Janego started The Weinstein Company’s multi-platform division, Quinn worked with executive producer Keith Calder to acquire the rights to the film.  It may be difficult to promote the 7-year old film, but in regards to that question Quinn said, “the film is good enough to be embraced by a genre audience.” 

For the horror fans that haven’t had the opportunity to see All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, start counting the days and thank all the people who helped make Levine’s latest film Warm Bodies a financial success.  If it weren’t for that success, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane may have never seen U.S. distribution.