Personal Effects, the unfortunate movie with Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates finally will be premiered Saturday, November 21 at 9 PM et/pt, with an encore presentation on Sunday, November 22 at 9 PM et/pt on Lifetime, such as we reported the last spring.

It is a pity (and a shame) that it has been the fate of this film which I’ve taken a bit of love little by little on the time…

Director David Hollander talked about the treatment of this movie to Cinema Blend, the original intention – not surprisingly – was for the film to go to cinemas, but unfortunately someone thought ‘Blockbuster’ would be a good home before he even had his say.

“I didn’t finish the film to be seen until September. By that time, the television rights had already been sold to Lifetime. Then in October, the financers took the film to AFM [the American Film Market], and just decided tot ry to sell it there. With that point soon after AFM, the Blockbuster deal was struck. Once Blockbuster and the TV rights and foreign had come together, the film was pretty much destined to have very little distirbution. Blockbuster does not distribute films, Lifetime does not distribute films. The cart was in front of the horse in the distribution model. “

You can watch here the nice spot for tv of Lifetime… 30 seconds really beautiful:

More about the movie at Personal Effects page on Lifetime.

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• Noviembre 25, 2009 | If ‘Personal Effects’ had been released on cinemas… had it been a success? (+ bonus: unauthorized trailer)
• Noviembre 11, 2009 | Launch of ‘Personal Effects’ in Colombia (+ bonus Movie Clip)
• Julio 16, 2009 | “When you say nothing at all”, a fan video dedicated to Pfeiffer & Kutcher
• Junio 18, 2009 | … and the other interview of the morning, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend at The View (+ transcription)
• Junio 17, 2009 | Michelle Pfeiffer Stunning For David Letterman Show