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What happened to this ??

e) THE WEATHER STATION – The planned December release into a single theatre in New York City (specifically, the heavily-Russian neighborhood of Brighton Beach), has been expanded due to an enthusiastic response from Regal Entertainment Group. There are over 3.1-million self-reported Russians living in the USA, and Regal has found them to be responsive attendees for movies shot in their native land. The film will now be opening January 30 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Detroit, Portland and Seattle-Tacoma. Opening the film via Regal, Cinemark and Laemmle locations in these markets will make the film “eligible” for a Netflix Streaming contract (which can be lucrative if obtained).

A plan back in 2012 to submit this film for the Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Film hit the obstacle of the Russian Film Committee having other priorities.

Mystery solved! The reason for the exclusion to the 2012 Academy awards is the fact that the movie was released in Russia in 2010. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346629/combined