The Hateful Eight Shoots to Top the New Zealand Box Office

The Hateful Eight Shoots to Top at the New Zealand Box Office

“The Hateful Eight is a leisurely, articulate and strangely funny descent into hell. It's pure cinematic gravy, and I loved every second of it.” – Dominic Corry,Flicks.co.nz, 5 stars

“The promise of a wintry, Tarantino Western is finally delivered on a story percolating in the famed film maker’s vivid imagination for quite some time.” - Kate Rodger, TV3, 4.5 stars

THE HATEFUL EIGHT came out all guns blazing to top the polls on its opening weekend at the Australian and New Zealand box offices, taking $2,357,365 in Australia and $311,919 in New Zealand following a star-studded publicity tour across Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland with Academy Award-winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino.

The film has most recently been given the Academy Award nod for Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Best Original Score (Ennio Morricone) and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson).

At the New Zealand premiere, held across four cinemas at Event Broadway in Newmarket each introduced by Tarantino and Bell, high profile guests including actors Karl Urban, Danielle Cormack, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Lucy Lawless and Oscar winning cinematographer Wally Pfister checked in to watch the eighth film in Tarantino’s legacy.

The director spent three days in Auckland where he won over the public, not only with his latest release but with his energetic, lengthy interactions with fans and encyclopaedic knowledge of New Zealand films and screen industry peers too.

In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

THE HATEFUL EIGHT was released in a wide digital format nationally on January 21 and is rated R18.

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