Distribution
Silver City had a limited release in the United States, where it was marketed as a comedy about an "intellectually challenged, poorly spoken politician." Sayles commented on that marketing approach in an entertainment interview for CNN:
- You basically give it to the company, and they advertise it the way that gets the most people in the theater. other countries, may emphasize the Chinatown aspects (aspects also noted in a New York Times article.) The problem with all my movies, because they're complicated, is they don't boil down to two sentences, so you emphasize this part or that part of it.
The film played in 162 theaters at its widest, and earned US$1.4 million at the box office in Canada and the United States. It also earned around $300,000 in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
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