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Development and financing; studio passes; Newmarket self-distribution; Weinstein buy attempt; chronological DVD; Nolan voicing 'you freak'
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- The brothers' idea took a couple of years to develop; Newmarket gave it a $4.5 million budget and screened it for studio heads in March 2000, who liked it but thought it too confusing.
- After Soderbergh's championing, Newmarket distributed it themselves, reached 500 theaters, made $25 million domestic and sold international rights.
- Harvey Weinstein, who had passed, tried and failed to buy it.
- The limited-edition DVD lets you watch the movie chronologically.
- Nolan felt Joey Pants did not nail 'you freak' and recorded the words himself.