Is the Sarah Palin documentary, "The Undefeated," coming soon to theaters?
You betcha — as long as you have an AMC theater near you that's willing to show it.
Victory Film Group, the film's producers, announced on Friday that the doc will open on July 15 for an exclusive digital release with AMC.
The film, which "chronicles Sarah Palin's rise from obscurity to national prominence," according to Victory, will launch in numerous markets, including Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Atlanta, Orange County, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis, and Kansas City.
Not on the list: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, to name a few.
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Why is it bypassing the big blue cities?
"The Undefeated is the ideal candidate for digital theatrical distribution," Jonathan Dern, president of Cinedigm Entertainment Group, said in a statement. "Given Palin's ardent following throughout the country, digital cinema allows us to be extremely precise and efficient in our distribution strategy, bringing this much-anticipated film directly to interested theater-goers."
Which isn't to say that denizens of the country's liberal bastions will be forever deprived of the documentary. In a statement provided to TheWrap, Trevor Drinkwater, CEO of ARC Entertainment, the film's worldwide distributor, vows that the "The Undefeated" will eventually spread from shore to shore.
"As with virtually all independent films the initial release is limited in an effort to build an audience; eventually the film will get a nationwide release," Drinkwater said. (Victory has also launched a write-in campaign for audiences to vote for the movie to come to a theater near them.)
"The Undefeated" was written and directed by Stephen K. Bannon, whose previous credits include "In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed" and the 2010 documentary "Battle for America," which explores the conflict between "Constitutional Conservatives" and the government and features conservative pundits such as Tony Blankley and Dick Morris.
The Palin documentary combines biographical narrative with commentary from such figures as conservative muckraker Andrew Breitbart, radio host Tammy Bruce and political commentator Mark Levin.
According to Victory Film Group co-founder Glenn Bracken Evans, the film "plays with all the drama of a 'Rocky' picture, only with a woman as the central figure and with politics instead of boxing."