Although it seems impossible that the date has already come, BIG FISH opens tomorrow (Wednesday, December 10th) in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto. It’s only on two screens in each market.
For LA, these are The Grove and AMC Century 14. Advance tickets for the Century 14 can be found at the usual places, such as Moviefone and Fandango. The Grove doesn’t use those services, although you can apparently reserve seats via their phone line, at (323) 692-0829.
BIG FISH producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen did a lengthy interview with Martin Grove from The Hollywood Reporter, in which they lay a very good history of the project, and the many challenges involved. It’s a good read if you’re interested in the film’s backstory.
Pearl Jam has recorded a brand new song called “Man of the Hour” for BIG FISH, which will play over the end credits. I haven’t gotten a legitimate copy of it yet, though I just heard an acoustic version taken from one of their shows earlier this week. This was from a bootleg site that I’ll leave you to Google for yourself, and the recording quality was about what you’d expect for a tape recorder smuggled in the crotch of an obsessive fan’s baggy jeans.
That said, the song is really, really good: sad, hopeful and totally appropriate for the movie, without being too on-the-nose. What’s better, I didn’t even know the song was going into the movie until yesterday. So here’s to happy surprises.
The Apple website now has a much better QuickTime version of the movie trailer, available here. Since it’s in QuickTime, you can easily stop it to see some of the stuff that moves by too quickly in the streaming versions, such as conjoined twins Ping and Jing.