New wrestling film - Queen of the Ring

[DavidB6937]

Well if Britt is in it, you better watch it quickly because the quality will deteriorate rapidly.

[Supremo]

First I’ve heard of this film. They should have mentioned it once or twice on the Revolution Zero Hour show.

[rihan007]

any idea if this is being released in the UK Cinemas?

[WyattSheepMask]

15 minutes ago, rihan007 said:

any idea if this is being released in the UK Cinemas?

Incredibly unlikely looking at its domestic box office takings ($632,000 over 3 weeks). It’ll end up streaming somewhere at some point because everything does, but I wouldn’t hold your breath for seeing on the big screen

[Merzbow]

It's coming to streaming today, not sure if US only but if so it'll be on *those* sites almost instantly.

[theringmaster]

I never understand why they make these films just to get a limited release? What the budget on the this thing? Got to be a couple of mill surely? A short cinema run just seems the logical thing to do.

[Merzbow]

1 hour ago, theringmaster said:

I never understand why they make these films just to get a limited release? What the budget on the this thing? Got to be a couple of mill surely? A short cinema run just seems the logical thing to do.

It's not really up to the filmmakers.

Ask the film distributors and cinema chains, they just don't want to take chances on films these days. Even with companies like Neon growing it's a pain in the fucking arse trying to find one of their films that isn't shown just once a day for a week.

Edited May 15, 2025 by Merzbow

[The Reverend]

Just found a copy, will give it a watch. I don't know why it surprised me, but it runs for about 2hrs 10 - I presumed it was going to be a 90 minute type job.  

[Bellenda Carlisle]

I watched this late last night, I really enjoyed it but I like cheap, shit, basic over the top stuff and love old timey wrestling imagery and vintage women's wrestling. The Iron Claw it wasn't, more like an old fashioned biopic from the 50s. 

The women were the highlight, I liked Felicity from Arrow as Mildred a lot despite her character being ridiculously perfect and flawless. Kamille was fun and had good screen presence as the Ivan Drago of the film.

I was constantly confused by the relative ages of Mildred, Wolff and their sons though. I also assumed at one point it must be about halfway through and checked and there was still an hour and three quarters left to go.

[Merzbow]

There's a weird thing where they quote or reference modern wrestling, feels totally out of place for a biopic of a certain time period.

Somehow Disco Inferno got one of his gimmicks in to the film, too.

Edited May 16, 2025 by Merzbow

[organizedkaos]

On 5/15/2025 at 12:30 PM, Merzbow said:

It's not really up to the filmmakers.

Ask the film distributors and cinema chains, they just don't want to take chances on films these days. Even with companies like Neon growing it's a pain in the fucking arse trying to find one of their films that isn't shown just once a day for a week.

Although with Mubi winning the rights (over several other major streamers) to the new Lynn Ramsey/Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattison film by offering to do a full release we might see some filmmakers look for similar deals. Although realisitically it's only going to be super buzzy projects which this film would not have been.

[HarmonicGenerator]

The film is getting a limited cinema release over here from the 19th, and it'll be on VOD from the 13th of October.

[BigJag]

Can't see it listed in Leicester. Will keep looking.