Night's Reign

Night's Reign is a 2006 dark fantasy romance action film directed and written by Ryan McDaniel based on an idea by Marc Moreno and featuring the voices of Jamie Bell, Kylie Minogue, Ben Bishop, Ron Crawford and Olivia Colman. The film is about a young donut shop worker named Harrison "Harris" Fairbank, who finds himself drawn to a mysterious girl named Rosaline Carline, however, there is a secret about her that makes her the target of a group known as The Dark Ones, who's leader, Herewood Broadbante, plots to overthrow the balance between good and evil and unleash a war on Earth, with Rosaline and soon Harris standing between the city's survival and ultimate destruction.

An international co-production between British companies Odyssey Entertainment and DNA Films and Japanese animaton studio Sunrise, the film was released in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2006, in Japan on December 9, 2006, and in the United States on March 2, 2007. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and grossed $73 million worldwide.

Release
The distribution rights were acquired by Odyssey Enetrtainment after Fox Searchlight Pictures, who had a distribution deal with DNA Films after the release of 28 Days Later, were not keen on the film.

The film had it's theatrical premiere in Manchester on July 28, 2006 before getting a nationwide theatrical release in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2006. Shochiku released the film in Japan on December 9, 2006.

Odyssey Entertainment sold the distribution rights across several countries from 2006 to 2007. In the United States, The Weinstein Company purchased the distribution rights in September 2006. As McDaniel had heard about the Weinsteins' habits of editing foreign films, he tried to make sure they would not "destroy the movie." After a successful test screening in October of that year, The Weinstein Company chose not to edit the movie and released it in theaters on March 2, 2007, with distribution handled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for "action/violence, thematic elements and some language." BAC Films and Kinowelt released the film in France and Germany, respectively, Alliance Films in Canada in conjunction with The Weinstein Company, Aurum in Spain, and Dutch Film Works in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Home media
The film was released on a double disc DVD by Entertainment in Video on December 18, 2006. Special features on the DVD release include a behind the scenes documentary on the film's production, a shorter making of featurette, deleted scenes and audio commentaries. The Japanese DVD was released by Bandai Visual on September 14, 2007, with an entirely different set of bonus features from the UK DVD release.

A single disc DVD was released in America by Genius Products on July 17, 2006. It came in both widescreen and full screen editions and utilized much of the same bonus features as the UK DVD release save for the behind the scenes documentary.