"Screener" Film Ends Up Online

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Bill on 2004/01/13:

  „Many movies are available online even before their theatrical release, or soon thereafter. The majority of these are not great quality (for example, often new releases will be captured by someone's digital video camera during a showing, which isn't exactly top quality video). Here you have a high quality copy of a new release available online: nobody in Hollywood is going to like that.“

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The End Of Screeners

  „In recent years, the proliferation of screeners has allowed voters to watch films in the comfort of their own living rooms. But the MPAA sees the wide availability of award-contending films, many of which are just beginning their theatrical runs, as too tempting for pirates who coul“

Found at a page of Robert Gale, posted on 2003/10/01

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Deep Focus Weblog: Oscar Bombs

  „And even when you get a good-looking DVD, it generally includes big ugly scrolling banners declaring ownership of copyright (aimed at discouraging pirates) and you’re lucky if it includes the multichannel theatrical soundtrack (discs from Miramax and Universal Focus do; discs from MGM don’t). The screeners are great as a fallback, and nobody knows better than I do what a pain it is to schlep from the suburbs into the big city (more than an hour, each way) just to catch a limited-release film in some Procrustean back-alley art house. But I do hope that everyone who takes films seriously will continue to take the effort to see them in their native environment — projected in 35mm up on a nice big theater screen, where they really belong.“

http://www.deep-focus.com/weblog/000021.html - Cached

m o v i e s

  „So I have my ticket, popcorn, and unusually large soda.  Ticket boy takes the slip and tells me to go to Auditorium 16 to my left.  But I know for a fact that Auditorium 16 is to the right.  So I say "No, it's over there."  He's in a bad mood anyway and gets snippy.  I'm also in a bad mood.  So tell him to shut up because he's a minimum wage ticket taker at a sucky monsterplex nobody cares about.  And by the way, they have stale Milk Duds.  So he takes a swing, thinking I'm defenseless because my hands are full of popcorn and an unusually large soda.  So I smack him with the hand that has the soda.  The soda explodes in a dazzling splash of syrupy fountain-drawn splendor all over his Supercuts coif.  He's stunned.  I get overzealous and just start wailing on the little punk.  Right right right right kick kick right right...Then somebody hits me from behind and I realize another employee has joined the fray.  Then two more.  But I'm holding my own with some swift kicks and one of those poles with the retractable strap to make standby lines when the auditorium isn't ready.  Popcorn, blood, and dark brown soda is everywhere.  The girls at the snack bar have abandoned their posts and are throwing boxes of stale Milk Duds at me.  The other patrons are getting annoyed because we're basically taking up the width of the hallway and they can't get around us to go to their movies.  So after I get done beating the crap out of every employee in the building, we all go to our auditoriums and sit down.  Unfortunately, I forgot to leave somebody standing to go upstairs and start the movies.  So we all sit around with our popcorn and just sort of leave after it's gone.“

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MCN: Movie City News

  „I cower at the thought of more movies like The Butterfly Effect, which reminds me of Paul Schrader's comment that making a movie is like birthing a child and critiquing it is performing an autopsy. Instead of extending the autopsy metaphors, this vile, clumsy thing reminds me more of growing up in a small town in Kentucky where the volunteer firemen joked that their job was to "save the chimney," keeping fires from raging farther while admitting the house was a goner. Still, I don't think even a Sundance slot or Ashton Kutcher's rising star will save this chimney, this flammable grab-bag of time travel, preteen lust, pedophilia, jailhouse sodomy, Butcher's pubic hair and, yes, several scenes teasing at and finally giving us a little Yorkie flambé.“

http://www.moviecitynews.com/front_archive/2004/ 040118_w.html - Cached

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