{"id":2644,"date":"2015-07-03T17:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/07\/03\/soda-pictures-acquires-uk-home-video-rights-to-philip-ridleys-cult-classic-the-reflecting-skin-2\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T17:20:29","slug":"soda-pictures-acquires-uk-home-video-rights-to-philip-ridleys-cult-classic-the-reflecting-skin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/07\/03\/soda-pictures-acquires-uk-home-video-rights-to-philip-ridleys-cult-classic-the-reflecting-skin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SODA PICTURES ACQUIRES UK HOME VIDEO RIGHTS TO PHILIP RIDLEY&#8217;S CULT CLASSIC THE REFLECTING SKIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Soda Pictures<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0have acquired UK &amp; Irish home video rights to\u00a0Philip Ridley&#8217;s 1990 cult classic\u00a0<i>THE REFLECTING SKIN<\/i>, featuring Viggo Mortensen in one of his first starring roles and Scottish actress Lindsay Duncan. \u00a0The UK\/Canada co-production, which has never been released on DVD or Blu-Ray in the UK before, will be released by the Anglo-Canadian distributor in a special edition later this year. \u00a0This release will be the worldwide video premiere of a new, director-approved high-definition transfer. \u00a0Exclusive bonus material is currently in production, including newly-filmed interviews with Ridley and Mortensen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Further details, including release dates, will be fully announced in the lead-up to the restoration&#8217;s UK premiere at Film4 Frightfest in August, which was announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><i>THE REFLECTING SKIN<\/i>\u00a0caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win eleven international awards. \u00a0Set in the Idaho farmlands of the 1950s, the film follows eight year-old Seth through a mythical summer where reality is heightened to the level of a hallucinogenic quasi-fantasy. \u00a0As mysterious deaths plague the rural community, Seth comes\u00a0to believe\u00a0that the pale, reclusive widow living next door (Lindsay Duncan) is a vampire. Seth\u2019s worst nightmare comes true when his older brother Cameron (Viggo Mortensen) returns home from abroad and falls in love with the widow \u2013 will he be next? The truth is much more shocking than Seth could imagine.<\/p>\n<p>On the remaster, writer\/director Ridley says:\u00a0<i>\u201cEarlier this year I saw something I hadn\u2019t seen for over twenty years. A beast so rare I thought it extinct. I saw\u00a0THE REFLECTING SKIN\u00a0looking exactly as it was\u00a0meant\u00a0to look. Somehow \u2013 by some miracle! \u2013 all the original elements have been found. Every frame has now been made a scratch-free zone. I sat in the grading room with some of the best technicians in the world and, scene by scene, shot by shot, guided them through how everything should look. So here it is&#8230; the exploding frog, the shiniest of Cadillacs, the yellowest of wheat fields, the bluest of skies, the reddest of sunsets, the whole hall-of-mirrors, teeth \u2018n\u2019 claws \u2018n\u2019 roar caboodle&#8230; all looking and sounding exactly as they did when the world was still young.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<div>Soda Pictures&#8217; Managing Director Edward Fletcher negotiated the deal with Clare Crean from The Works International.\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">For further press information please contact Olivia Jarvis at Soda Pictures.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">olivia@sodapictures.com<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\/ 0207 377 1407<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">About Soda Pictures<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Soda Pictures is an Anglo-Canadian film distributor of art house, independent and world cinema. Established in London in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher, the company releases 25+ films a year and has a library of over 300 films from all corners of the world. In September 2014, it was announced that Soda Pictures was acquired by the Canadian production company Thunderbird Films in order to join a greater media group, build a theatrical film division in Canada and expand their existing business in the UK and Ireland. They launched the new venture at Toronto International Film Festival with the World Premiere of the film<i>\u00a0The Riot Club.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soda Pictures\u00a0have acquired UK &amp; Irish home video rights to\u00a0Philip Ridley&#8217;s 1990 cult classic\u00a0THE REFLECTING SKIN, featuring Viggo Mortensen in one of his first starring roles and Scottish actress Lindsay Duncan. \u00a0The UK\/Canada co-production, which has never been released on DVD or Blu-Ray in the UK before, will be released by the Anglo-Canadian distributor in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/07\/03\/soda-pictures-acquires-uk-home-video-rights-to-philip-ridleys-cult-classic-the-reflecting-skin-2\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SODA PICTURES ACQUIRES UK HOME VIDEO RIGHTS TO PHILIP RIDLEY&#039;S CULT CLASSIC THE REFLECTING SKIN - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/07\/03\/soda-pictures-acquires-uk-home-video-rights-to-philip-ridleys-cult-classic-the-reflecting-skin-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SODA PICTURES ACQUIRES UK HOME VIDEO RIGHTS TO PHILIP RIDLEY&#039;S CULT CLASSIC THE REFLECTING SKIN - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Soda Pictures\u00a0have acquired UK &amp; 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