Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Expands to Nearly 2,000 Screens

Hateful Eight Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern Scene
Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Bruce Dern star in ‘The Hateful Eight’ (Photo: Andrew Cooper, SMPSP © 2015 The Weinstein Company)

Following the special 70mm ‘roadshow’ release, The Weinstein Company announced they’ve expanded writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight to 1,958 screens with additional screens set to be added on December 31st. The expanded digital release comes on the heels of the film’s $5.66 million gross on 100 screens in 44 cities. According to The Weinstein Company, those 100 screens will continue to play the film in the 70mm format complete with an overture and an intermission.

“To see this film open at over $56,000 per screen in an amazingly crowded holiday box office has us all incredibly excited,” stated TWC President of Distribution Erik Lomis. “While we are beyond thrilled with the limited release numbers, the demand from moviegoers to see this film has exceeded our capabilities in 70mm, so we’re greatly looking forward to bringing it to more theaters and cities and give Tarantino fans across the country the chance to experience this brilliant, intensely fun piece of filmmaking.”

The Hateful Eight Plot:


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…