In the USA AMC backed down. The real question where is Tim Burton on all of this? While I’m not a huge fan of his (in fact I think he’s over rated) – I have to wonder as a filmmaker why isn’t he stepping up advocating for a full theatrical run that encourages customers to see the film in theaters verses waiting a very short time for the DVD. You bet James Cameron would be up in arms about this. Then again IFC Films has been shortchanging world class filmmakers by putting little to no effort into their theatrical releases – I’ve seen future, when day and date releases happen – it ain’t pretty.
You’ll end up watching an Standard Def DVD full of digital artifacts off a digital pre-show projector bought at Office Max in a 35 seat screening room for the low price of $12.50 a ticket. In case your wondering I’ve just described Auditorium #5 at IFC Center.
Chris… maybe we are both right and wrong… the problem is that many business people are totally gutless these days and will NOT fight the giants stand behind their beliefs.
Personally, I hope box office sales are a disaster because, as others have said that Disney has gone to hell. That is, ever since Mr. Eisner screwed up everything.
Poor Walt must be turning in his grave.
my (unofficial) comments about the big opening weekend of Alice in Wonderland, 2 big screens, is “lousy attendance” where I work!
In the USA AMC backed down. The real question where is Tim Burton on all of this? While I’m not a huge fan of his (in fact I think he’s over rated) – I have to wonder as a filmmaker why isn’t he stepping up advocating for a full theatrical run that encourages customers to see the film in theaters verses waiting a very short time for the DVD. You bet James Cameron would be up in arms about this. Then again IFC Films has been shortchanging world class filmmakers by putting little to no effort into their theatrical releases – I’ve seen future, when day and date releases happen – it ain’t pretty.
You’ll end up watching an Standard Def DVD full of digital artifacts off a digital pre-show projector bought at Office Max in a 35 seat screening room for the low price of $12.50 a ticket. In case your wondering I’ve just described Auditorium #5 at IFC Center.
Chris… maybe we are both right and wrong… the problem is that many business people are totally gutless these days and will NOT fight the giants stand behind their beliefs.
Personally, I hope box office sales are a disaster because, as others have said that Disney has gone to hell. That is, ever since Mr. Eisner screwed up everything.
Poor Walt must be turning in his grave.
Yep. Old article. Odeon has backed down from their boycott. This is the beginning of the end, folks.
That LA Times article is from Feb. 17 2010.
It looks like the UK cinema boycott threat ended on Wednesday between Odeon and Disney. A few British sites are reporting this.