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First Major Motion Picture Created Specifically for Web Exceeds Distribution Expectations

LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shangri-La Entertainment today announced that the Sebastian Gutierrez film Girl Walks Into a Bar, the multi-character crime comedy starring Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino and Zachary Quinto among many others, has now been watched 550,000 times on YouTube.

Girl Walks Into a Bar continues to exceed expectations more than one month following the film's premiere in YouTube's Screening Room on March 11.  Since its YouTube debut, Girl Walks Into a Bar has received continuous spikes in viewership via strong-word-of-mouth and social media campaigns, including viral videos and Tweets from cast and friends of the film. 

Prior to launch, Shangri-La bypassed traditional theatrical distribution and display advertising, in favor of a unique public relations and social media campaign.  Shangri-La also premiered the film at the South by SouthWest (SXSW) Film Festival on the same day of its YouTube debut.

Shangri-La Entertainment and the filmmaker also worked with YouTube to secure an exclusive presenting sponsor in Lexus to minimize commercial interruptions while maximizing the value of impressions for the movie's sponsor partner.

"In an era where the internet gets blamed for so much, it's extremely encouraging to realize online distribution is a viable avenue for indies.  Here are half a million people passionately watching and discussing a movie in near-real time--half a million people who may not have easy access to a local arthouse," said Sebastian Gutierrez. "I'm excited for the possibilities this opens up in terms of future projects and how we can reach a global marketplace all in one go, by relying on the collective efforts of the cast, production team and presenting sponsor. It's a liberating alternative to the often cost-prohibitive distribution and marketing costs that low budget movies face."

Girl Walks Into a Bar follows a series of characters in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening in Los Angeles. The ensemble cast features extraordinary performances by Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett, Rosario Dawson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Aaron Tveit, Robert Forster, Amber Valletta, Gil Bellows and Kevin Zegers.

About Shangri-La Entertainment

Shangri-La Entertainment films include "Beowulf," "CSNY: Deja Vu," "For Your Consideration,"  "Heart of Gold," "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," "The Polar Express," "Shine A Light" and the upcoming Bob Marley documentary "Marley." 

About YouTube

YouTube is the world's most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. YouTube, LLC is based in San Bruno, CA and is a subsidiary of Google Inc.

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Обзор DVD  "Девушка заходит в бар"

Dir: Sebastian Guetierrez
Cast: Gil Bellows, Xander Berkely, Alexis Bledel, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, Robert Forster, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Zachary Quinto, Michelle Ryan, Lauren Lee Smith, Aaron Tveit, Amber Valletta, Kevin Zegers.

The Film:
If you have been following my writings with both my film reviews and as well as my weekly recommendations over the past year, you would know that I am quite a fan of multi-character/story films. GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR is another of these types of films, so it definitely peeked my interest right away. Plus it has a pretty good cast of actors in its ensemble. But what I found most interesting about this film was that was the first feature length film to be produced entirely for YouTube, which you can actually watch on there right now as we speak for free (however, it is only available for North American residents only). So what is the film itself actually about?

The film follows the beginnings in a bar when a dentist named Nick (Zachary Quinto) hires a female assassin named Francine Driver (Carla Gugino) to kill his wife Karen (Lauren Lee Smith). However Driver will only kill Nick’s wife if he pays her $20,000 upfront. Nick tells Driver that he doesn’t have the money on him at the moment but tells her that he will go and get it and that he’ll back in a few hours. She agrees to stay at the bar until he comes back. However, what Nick doesn’t know is that Driver is really an undercover cop who actually secretly recorded their entire conversation on a recording device that she had hidden on her so that it can be used to incriminate him. While she waits in the bar, she strikes up a conversation with a charming young man named Henry (Aaron Tveit). After he leaves, Driver discovers that he has stolen her wallet (as well as the recording device that was in it). Knowing that she has lost the only evidence that has incriminate Nick, Driver sets out on an all night journey across every bar in Los Angeles to find Henry. Along the way, we get introduced to a series of different characters in these bars who are all linked to each other in one way or another.

Well, after watching it I have to say that I found it to be a decent, witty and reasonably enjoyable comedy from writer/director Sebastian Guetierrez. This film is definitely more in the same vein as his previous films as director with WOMEN IN TROUBLE and ELEKTRA LUXX, which were also both multi-character/story comedies. One of the things that stood most about this film was the dialogue. You can definitely tell while watching the film that the cast absolutely relished every word that their characters had to say, as the dialogue in Guetierrez’s script is extremely well written and stylized. I could understand why someone might get bored a bit by the film since it’s a very dialogue heavy film but I found the script’s dialogue so written and the actors performing it so well that it made it quite interesting with what was happening on screen

The performances from the cast were all pretty solid; there wasn’t a weak one in the bunch. The ones who stood out for me the most were Carla Gungino (who happens to be Guetierrez long time girlfriend), who gave a wonderful performance as Driver. Robert Foster, who plays an ex-con named Dodge who has a nice scene with Amber Valletta’s character Camilla and Zachary Quinto, who was very good as Nick.

While I did enjoy the film, I have to admit that it does have a lot of flaws. One of the major ones was Guetierrez’s direction. While he directed his cast very well but his directorial style felt pretty amateurish at times in both the film’s look and editing. I suppose the fact that this was a very small budgeted indie may have something to do with it, but he could have made the film with a bit more style so that it could hide its low budget quality (although it has visual moments, the bars that every scene was set it were all beautifully lit and he also has a solid one-take steady cam shot in one scene). Plus I felt that some scenes that didn’t quite work (the scene between Rosario Dawson and Josh Hartnett was one that sprung to mind) and some actors were either underused or wasted in their roles.

Even though GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR isn’t going to be a film that is going to be remembered as one of the best multi-character/story films of all time but that said I still quite enjoyed it overall despite its flaws. If you liked Guetierrez’s other films as a director, than you may enjoy this one as well.

The Australian DVD:
The DVD I reviewed was a screener, so I am unable to comment on Picture/Audio quality.

Rating: 3/5

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