The Island’s only cinema Cineworld have fallen out with the film’s distributor and left Islanders in a ‘ghost town’ with nowhere else to go and watch it.
Many have taken to social media to complain to Cineworld saying it’s “disappointing” and a “disgrace”.
Chloe Johnson hoped her posting would help change their mind, writing: “I live on a very small island called Jersey. We only have one cinema. YOURS.
“How do you expect islanders to see The Hateful Eight?
“People on the mainland can hop on a train to the next town and do to an a different cinema. Where am I supposed to go here?
“I’ve waited SO long for this movie and you’ve actually broken my heart. This was the one movie of 2016 that I wanted to watch more than anything. I am a huge Tarantino fan, and now I’m never gonna have the chance to see this movie on the big screen.”
The company won’t confirm why they couldn’t reach an agreement although it’s believed to be over the format of the film.
In a statement a Cineworld spokesperson said: “We can confirm that The Hateful Eight will not be shown at our cinemas. Unfortunately we were not able to reach an agreement with the movie’s distributor. We make every effort to show a wide variety of movies and we’re very excited about other releases in January including Joy and The Danish Girl.”
Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Demian Bichir, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern all star in the movie as eight strangers who take refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover after the American Civil War.
The film which comes out in the UK today has been given a five star review by The Guardian who call it an ‘old fashioned three-hour masterpiece’.
