Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Gets Straight-to-Streaming Release Date in Germany
Ferrari has bypassed theaters and will be racing out online only in Germany.
Amazon, which picked up rights in Germany and Austria for Michael Mann’s race car biopic, will release the Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz starrer directly online. The film, which premiered in Venice last year and was released theatrically in the U.S. by Neon, will bow on Amazon’s Prime Video service in the two territories on March 1. Amazon took the same track in France, where Ferrari will go out on exclusively on Amazon Prime on March 8. Ferrari was pre-sold to Amazon in the territories (as well in India and the Nordic territories). The producers of the film noted that after the Amazon deal was done there were no plans to release the movie theatrically in those territories.
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While generally well-received by U.S. critics, Ferrari got trashed by many Euro reviewers, who took issue with having the American Driver and Spaniard Cruz play Italian race car legend Enzo Ferrari and his (Italian) wife Laura.
Even in the U.S., the film failed to tear up the box office track, grossing just $18.5 million, of just under $40 million total worldwide. While not a disaster on the level of Mann’s last feature, 2015’s Blackhat, which topped out at under $20 million globally, Ferrari wasn’t the triumphant return to the winners’ circle that many Mann fans had hoped it would be.
Interestingly, the most successful international release of Ferrari in theaters came through the British pay-TV group Sky. The U.K. release grossed ￡4.2 million ($5.3 million), topping the $4 million it earned in Italy, released by Leone Film Group.
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