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Topic: Movies still being released on film
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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 12-24-2017 10:49 AM
quote: Fredrik Sandstrom
Could you possibly provide more contradictory instructions?
Especially since many theater staff-people don't know their aspects
from their elbows, especially when you start throwing numbers at
them. All they know is "S" or "F" and don't even really understand
what that means or what the difference is.
<WARNING: Rant Ahead!>
Last week I had to make an "emergency" trip down to a theater
that was going to be running a locally produced low-budget movie.
Their projection-dweeb received the drive, for which the CPL was only
"My DCP" and NOTHING else. No aspect ratio, or sound info, etc.
The poor kid had no idea what to do with it. "I can't find the title"
he kept repeating to me.
The film-maker was there too, and even he had no idea, and couldn't
tell me the correct aspect ratio. At one point he said "I think It's 1:85
Cinemascope" I had to put it on screen to determine the correct AR.
... and then I ran into the 2nd "gotcha" - - The DCP only had 2ch audio.
The back-up blu-ray he brought had 5.1. I tried explaining this, but the
filmaker-guy insisted I use the DCP because "it's better quality".
(quite frankly, at that theater, and on the size screen they had, it would
be difficult for average viewers to tell the difference between the two.)
It was obvious to me the DCP had been made from the blu-ray, but whoever
made the DCP didn't transfer the audio info properly. But the film-maker
insisted I use the "better" DCP.
After the show, their audio-guy was upset because I "played the wrong
audio". He insisted I had done something wrong, because "the DCP was
made from the blu-ray (ah HA!) and so it should have been identical.
I don't think I convinced him the fault was theirs. The film-maker himself
was "OK" with things, simply because he cared more with how it looked
than how it sounded.
This is the 2nd time recently that I've had to deal with a situation like
this. The problem is that now "anybody" can make a DCP,even if they
have no friggin' idea of what they are doing.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 01-04-2018 11:09 PM
Jim's experience is one that I went through multiplied many times over at every festival I worked in my last job.
In fact, Jim had a lucky break: at least "My DCP" ingested at all! If "My DCP" had been supplied on a "My Passport" hard drive, fresh off the shelf of the "film" maker's local Office Depot, complete with EFI partition, crapware partition and an HFS+ partition on the remaining space, not much would have happened when it was hooked to the screen server or TMS for ingestion.
quote: Kenneth Wuepper
Perhaps in the cause of honesty in advertising, there should be a ruling that you can only use the tern "film" in connection with a festival when actual film is being shown. All others to be known as MOVIE festivals.
I hear where you're coming from, but the boat has sailed on that one: "film," "movie" and "video" have become effective synonyms, meaning any form of moving image recording, in everyday speech. By the same token, you're never going to stop news reporters referring to cellphone "footage" of some spoiled brat celeb having a screaming meltdown on a plane (I had no idea that flash memory cards could be that long!), and the practice of "CC-ing" someone in an email will likely be with us forever, despite the fact that actual carbon paper hasn't been used since the detectives in 1940s film noir thrillers bashed out their homicide reports, slowly and with two fingers, on a mechanical typewriter (the xerox machine was invented around the time they hung up their badges and retired!).
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Chris Haller
Film Handler
Posts: 68
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Dec 2015
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posted 07-26-2018 10:57 PM
According to director Chris McQuarrie's twitter, Mission Impossible: Fallout is opening on 7 screens in the US on 35mm film. They are as follows:
Courtyard Cinema - Mackinaw City, MI
Leicester Drive In - Leicester, MA
Parkhill Cinema - Tarboro, NC
Palatka Cinema - Palatka, FL
Point Drive In - Northumberland, PA
Hollywood Theater - Litchfield, MN
Mill Theater - Milbank, SD
He also went on twitter to mention that he's had a personal 35mm print of the film made, and hopes to show it in LA at some point in the future.
I guess Paramount REALLY wants to make sure this film is playing in every theater imaginable. None of these cities are major areas, and the closest one to me is still 3+ hours away. I'll stick to our 2K Xenon IMAX for opening day tomorrow.
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