Citizen Vigilante will get international distribution following free promo from Elon Musk

Over the weekend, Elon Musk boosted Citizen Vigilante, a film directed by Uwe Boll that sees an Armie Hammer character enact violence towards numerous also-violent migrants in Europe, to his practically 240 million X followers. In a brand new interview with Selection, Boll admits that he’s unsure that asking folks to obtain the movie without cost for 48 hours, which is what Musk did, will really assist the movie’s backside line, however it did seemingly assist the movie discover international distribution. Per the commerce, Citizen Vigilante‘s distributor, has formally taken the film worldwide, excluding the U.Ok., German–talking territories, Taiwan, and Korea.

“There may be, in fact, a great and a foul aspect of the X posting,” Boll tells Selection. The nice aspect, clearly, is all of the free promotion that Musk did, presumably as a result of he agrees with the film’s politics. The dangerous is that he instructed folks to obtain a film, which hadn’t even been in theaters for 2 weeks but, without cost. “The query it’s a must to consider is: Is that bringing more cash in the long run, or is that costing me some huge cash? You realize, you get a number of PR, however you don’t get some huge cash,” says Boll, who’s already scheming a sequel for 2027. “So, we are going to determine that out within the subsequent 4 or six weeks.”

Boll estimates that the movie has made about $600,000 from iTunes, Google Play, Prime Video, and different app downloads towards a $2 million funds. Certainly there are folks on the market who agree with the movie’s (by all accounts, extremely unsubtle) political messaging and wish to financially assist it for that purpose. However on condition that that is solely actually out there at house, it appears unlikely that Boll might wind up with one other Sound Of Freedom, even with the intervention of the world’s richest man.