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Defying expectations in a number of ways — as a January release, a Liam Neeson thriller, and a follow-up to The A-Team The Grey marked a return to more modestly budgeted features for director Joe Carnahan. For his next project, he’d go even further down that road with Stretch, a low-budget Blumhouse production that follows Patrick Wilson as a limousine driver whose latest rich and mysterious client (Chris Pine) takes him on a dangerous trip through the night in the promise of eliminating his debts; along the way, encounters with Ray Liotta, James Badge Dale, Brooklyn Decker, Jessica Alba, and Ed Helms ensue.

Once set for a wide release earlier this year, Universal dropped the film in the last minute due to not wanting to spend significantly on a marketing budget and were exploring other options of releasing it. It looks like our original predictions have come true, as Deadline reports Blumhouse have created BH Tilt, a label that will give their films not suited for all-encompassing wide audiences a smaller release: day and date on VOD and perhaps a limited theatrical run.

Along with DuplassCreep, Mockingbird, Mercy, Not Safe For Work, and Orion’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown remake, Carnahan’s Stretch is among the slate. Getting a VOD release in October, the director has taken it upon himself to start up the marketing campaign and has begun releasing photos and brief clips on Twitter. It certainly looks like the director’s strangest film yet and one can see everything above and below as we await a trailer.

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Stretch will arrive in October.

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