History NoExportForYou / Film

* The ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' movies, which came out in 2000 and 2003, were not given an official release in America until 2012. Due to [[{{Gorn}} the nature]] [[TooSoon of the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} movies]], this led to long-standing (and false) rumors that the movies were banned in the US.. (That they'd been released in the UK, a country whose {{Media Watchdog}}s are far more squeamish about violence (this was, after all, the country that came up with the VideoNasties list), should put the lie to that rumour.) The problem was that Toei, the studio behind the films, ''did'' offer to sell the rights to American distributors, but their conditions for sale were wildly unreasonable for a subtitled foreign film in the American market: they demanded a national cinema release and accompanying advertising campaign on par with the latest Hollywood blockbusters instead of the normal "select arthouse cinemas" route that does decent business for other subtitled foreign films. They eventually relented and settled for the latter route (specifically, a one-week run at the Cinefamily Theater in Los Angeles for nine days (later changed to fifteen days due to demand) starting December 24, 2011, followed by a DVD/Blu-Ray release on March 20, 2012 by Anchor Bay) after realizing that no American distributor could possibly meet their demands without whipping up a firestorm of controversy.\\

* ''GreatWhite'' is available everywhere except America due to a lawsuit by Universal that led to an extremely short and abbreviated run in theatres.

* Make Mine Music was one of those Disney compilation films with different segments that they made in their early days during the war when they couldn't make their usual proper full length films. Although every over compilation film got released there, Make Mine Music remains to be the only Walt Disney Animated Studios film to not be released in the UK besides a now out of date and out of print VHS release. And you'd wouldn't think there would be a WDAS film they didn't release on DVD in the UK. Not to mention half of the Walt Disney Treasures...

Which leads into another problem that the films had: the MPAA. Teenage {{slasher movie}}s are nothing new, but there's a difference between a psychotic monster going on a rampage and the nation's government forcing a high school class (played by actual teenaged actors -- no DawsonCasting here!) to become murderers. There is no way in hell a film with that kind of content would've gotten anything other than an NC-17 without getting {{bowdlerise}}d, meaning you can forget about a wide release or big marketing campaign. Too much pain for too little money. It's likely that, ultimately, the only reason that anybody even touched the films to begin with because of the runaway success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', a series of American books with, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment to put it as neutrally as possible]], similar subject matter.\\

* The ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' movies, which came out in 2000 and 2003, were not given an official release in America until 2012. Due to [[{{Gorn}} the nature]] [[TooSoon of the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} movies]], this led to long-standing (and false) rumors that the movies were banned in the US.. (That they'd been released in the UK, a country whose {{Media Watchdog}}s are far more squeamish about violence (this was, after all, the country that came up with the VideoNasties list), should put the lie to that rumour.) The problem was that Toei, the studio behind the films, ''did'' offer to sell the rights to American distributors, but their conditions for sale were wildly unreasonable for a subtitled foreign film in the American market: they demanded a national cinema release and accompanying advertising campaign on par with the latest Hollywood blockbusters instead of the normal "select arthouse cinemas" route that does decent business for other subtitled foreign films. They eventually relented and settled for the latter route[[note]]Specifically, a one-week run at the Cinefamily Theater in Los Angeles for nine days (later changed to fifteen days due to demand) starting December 24, 2011, followed by a DVD/Blu-Ray release on March 20, 2012 by Anchor Bay.[[/note]] after realizing that no American distributor could possibly meet their demands without whipping up a firestorm of controversy.\\

* The ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' movies, which came out in 2000 and 2003, were not given an official release in America until 2012. Due to [[{{Gorn}} the nature]] [[TooSoon of the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} movies]], this led to long-standing (and false) rumors that the movies were banned in the US.[[note]]That they'd been released in the UK, a country whose {{Media Watchdog}}s are far more squeamish about violence (this was, after all, the country that came up with the VideoNasties list), should put the lie to that rumour.[[/note]] The problem was that Toei, the studio behind the films, ''did'' offer to sell the rights to American distributors, but their conditions for sale were wildly unreasonable for a subtitled foreign film in the American market: they demanded a national cinema release and accompanying advertising campaign on par with the latest Hollywood blockbusters instead of the normal "select arthouse cinemas" route that does decent business for other subtitled foreign films. They eventually relented and settled for the latter route[[note]]Specifically, a one-week run at the Cinefamily Theater in Los Angeles for nine days (later changed to fifteen days due to demand) starting December 24, 2011, followed by a DVD/Blu-Ray release on March 20, 2012 by Anchor Bay.[[/note]] after realizing that no American distributor could possibly meet their demands without whipping up a firestorm of controversy.\\

* The ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' movies, which came out in 2000 and 2003, were not given an official release in America until 2012. Due to [[{{Gorn}} the nature]] [[TooSoon of the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} movies]], this led to long-standing (and false) rumors that the movies were banned from American release.[[note]]That they'd been released in the UK, a country with intermittently squeamish {{Media Watchdog}}s, should put the lie to that rumour.[[/note]] The problem was that Toei, the studio behind the films, ''did'' offer to sell the rights to American distributors, but their conditions for sale were wildly unreasonable for a subtitled foreign film in the American market: they demanded a national cinema release and accompanying advertising campaign on par with the latest Hollywood blockbusters instead of the normal "select arthouse cinemas" route that does decent business for other subtitled foreign films. They eventually relented and settled for the latter route[[note]]Specifically, a one-week run at the Cinefamily Theater in Los Angeles for nine days (later changed to fifteen days due to demand) starting December 24, 2011, followed by a DVD/Blu-Ray release on March 20, 2012 by Anchor Bay.[[/note]] after realizing that no American distributor could possibly meet their demands without whipping up a firestorm of controversy.\\

Which leads into another problem that the films had: the MPAA. Teenage {{slasher movie}}s are nothing new, but there's a difference between a psychotic monster going on a rampage and the nation's government forcing a high school class (played by actual teenaged actors -- no DawsonCasting here!) to become murderers. There is no way in hell a film with that kind of content would've gotten anything other than an NC-17 without getting {{bowdlerise}}d, meaning you can forget about a wide release or big marketing campaign. Too much pain for too little money. It's likely that, ultimately, the only reason that anybody even touched the films to begin with because of the runaway success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', a series of American books with similar subject matter ([[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and let's just leave it at that]]).\\

* Toei wouldn't sell the rights to distribute the ''BattleRoyale'' movies. Due to [[{{Gorn}} the nature]] [[TooSoon of the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} movies]], this has led to long-standing but false rumors that the movies were banned from American release. (That they've have been released in the UK, a country with intermittently squeamish MediaWatchdogs, should put the lie to that rumour.)
** Toei ''do'' offer to sell the rights to the United States, but the problem is that their conditions for sale are wildly unreasonable for a subtitled foreign film in the American market: they demand a national cinema release and accompanying advertising campaign on par with the latest Hollywood blockbusters instead of the normal "select arthouse cinemas" route that does decent business for other subtitled foreign films.
** The real problem is the MPAA. Teenage {{slasher movie}}s are nothing new, but there's a difference between a psychotic monster going on a rampage and the nation's government forcing a high school class (played by actual teenaged actors -- no DawsonCasting here!) to become murderers. There is no way in hell a film with that kind of content would get anything other than an NC-17 without getting {{bowdlerise}}d, meaning you can forget about a wide release or big marketing campaign. That's not even considering the inevitable protests that would erupt with even a small-scale release. Too much pain for too little money; I can't see anyone ever taking a chance on this.
*** To get around that, someone has the rights to make an American remake, along the lines of ''TheRing'' and ''TheGrudge''. But again, [[EverybodyDies the nature of the story]] means trying to find 30-40 odd teenagers ([[DawsonCasting or the next best thing]]), at least five of which you know the studio will want to be "big names", a distributor willing to ''market'' a movie like this, and way to make the movie make sense to an American demographic... yeah, let's just say the project's been in DevelopmentHell for several years.
*** An American release is now inevitable: [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-11/anchor-bay-adds-live-action-battle-royale-3d-in-u.s Anchor Bay Films will release the first film in 3D sometime in 2011.]]
**** Congratulations, it is now 2012.
***** ...aaaand ''TheHungerGames'' having been a '''roaring''' success, Hollywood's no doubt looking to FollowTheLeader. Stay tuned.
***** The DVD was released in March, after a one-week run in Los Angeles back in December 2011.

* EmmaRoberts has had the misfortune of going to Britain to shoot two movies - ''Film/WildChild'' and ''FourThreeTwoOne'' - which never got American theatrical release; the former went DirectToDVD, and the latter was such a flop in Britain (both with critics and audiences) that it'll be lucky to go direct to television.

*** To get around that, someone has the rights to make an American remake, along the lines of ''TheRing'' and ''TheGrudge''. But again, [[EverybodyDies the nature of the story]] means trying to find 30-40 odd teenagers ([[DawsonCasting or the next best thing]]), at least five of which you know the studio will want to be "big names", a distributor willing to ''market'' a movie like this, and way to make the movie make sense to an American demographic... yeah, let's just say the project's been in DevelopmentLimbo for several years.

* The popular ''Film/{{Taxi}}'' franchise has never been released in the US. Instead, a poorly released remake with QueenLatifah was made (possibly with the sole intention that the original series would never see the light of day in the US).

* EmmaRoberts has had the misfortune of going to Britain to shoot two movies - ''Film/WildChild'' and ''FourThreeTwoOne'' - which never got American theatrical release (the former went DirectToDVD, and the latter was such a flop both with critics and audiences that it'll be lucky to go direct to television).

* EmmaRoberts has had the misfortune of going to Britain to shoot two movies - ''WildChild'' and ''FourThreeTwoOne'' - which never got American theatrical release (the former went DirectToDVD, and the latter was such a flop both with critics and audiences that it'll be lucky to go direct to television).

* Toei wouldn't sell the rights to distribute the ''BattleRoyale'' movies. Due to [[{{Gorn}} the nature]] [[TooSoon of the]] [[{{Columbine}} movies]], this has led to long-standing but false rumors that the movies were banned from American release. (That they've have been released in the UK, a country with intermittently squeamish MediaWatchdogs, should put the lie to that rumour.)

***** The DVD was in March, after a one-week run in Los Angeles back in December 2011.

***** ...aaaand ''TheHungerGames'' having been a '''roaring''' success, Hollywood's no doubt looking to FollowTheLeader...

**** Congratulations, it is now 2012

* ''[[HannahMontana Hannah Montana: The Movie]]'' never got a theatrical release in Japan for unknown reasons, but averted that the movie was available as a ''Direct To Video release on the Japanese iTunes.'' However, they did release ''[[LizzieMcGuire The Lizzie McGuire Movie]]'' in Japanese cinemas.

* ''[[HannahMontana Hannah Montana: The Movie]]'' never got a theatrical release in Japan for unknown reasons. However, they did release ''[[LizzieMcGuire The Lizzie McGuire Movie]]'' in Japanese cinemas.

* ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'' won't be released in India at least for the time being due to director David Fincher not allowing Sony to cut material from the film that would be deemed offensive to the local censorship boards; if and when it finally does get release there, it'll be DirectToVideo at best, like ''TheHumanCentipede II'' was in the UK due to its horrific content.

* ''AClockworkOrange'' was this in the UK until 2000 due to (depending on the source) either copycat murders or death threats against the family of director StanleyKubrick. Whatever the reason, Kubrick and Warner Bros. pulled the film from the UK voluntarily, and it wasn't until after Kubrick died that Warner allowed a British release of the film. It was this trope that shut down the Scala Film Club for several years starting in 1993; Warner successfully sued them for screening the film without their authorization.