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It’s no big mystery why Disney would all but bury The Dog Stars , with a late-summer release pushed back from the spring, minimum advance fanfare, sparse press with the stars, no U.S. red carpet premiere and a misleading trailer, which looks like a million other post-apocalyptic thrillers that have ceded ground to more exciting TV, like The Last of Us and — at least in its early seasons — The Walking Dead .

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