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A few days ago there was worry that a British movie about Darwin was too religiously radioactive to find a US distributor. That seemed a little odd - the US has no shortage of movies that offend fundamentalist Christian sensibilities. More Adaptive Complexity articles
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Now this week, via The Panda's Thumb, there is now a bidding war in the US for the rights to distribute the film.
It could be that, after the film's huge success in the UK, US distributors changed their minds. Or, as Hank put it in the comments when this first came out, this is just a publicity stunt taking advantage of the controversial status of evolution in America. Call me cynical, but I vote for the publicity stunt scenario.
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It's been maddening because I have seen that same paranoia over and over again, layered in bizarre claims about censorship. This was obvious marketing and a whole bunch of people in the 'if it's in a British newspaper, we'll believe anything' (that includes 100% of Panda's Thumb) contingent swallowed it without any of the skepticism they claim to endorse. ;)
Lots of movies get made in England that never get distributors here - science bloggers have just given their marketing groups a new strategy to change that.