The "Marc Pease" predicament.
As someone who spends plenty of time trolling the coming soon calendar for our seasonal previews, I'll see many films that look intriguing, but are pulled at the last minute by their distributor. Or worse -- they end up like "The Marc Pease Experience," a Ben Stiller-Jason Schwartzman comedy that has seen release dates come and go and that'll finally be dumped into a handful of theaters in cities other than New York and L.A. this Friday by its now-defunct specialty label Paramount Vantage. Over at The Playlist, director Todd Louiso (of "Love Liza") explains that the film was hit hard by the double whammy of the 2007 writers' strike and the subsequent shut-down of Vantage. The result is that his comedy became a red-headed stepchild for parent company Paramount, despite the presence of Stiller and a music/high school premise that seems as timely as this week's release of "Bandslam."...
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