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Posted by Richard Quesnelle (Member # 391) on 07-13-2000, 08:35 PM:
I have been reading the post of the green film ratings and how many of you like to leave them on. Well last night was the first time that I have fully made-up a print (trailers + movie), because normally I had just put the movie on 6000' foot reels and my boss put on the trailers and then loaded it onto the plater. When I was putting together the trailers, I noticed no such board rating section on the trailers. Is this something that only we Canadians come across or not all trailers have this?
Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 07-13-2000, 11:37 PM:
Are yoru trailers brand new or have they been used before?
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 07-14-2000, 06:38 AM:
Perhaps trailers made specifically for the Canadian market do not have the MPAA rating tag, as the Provincial ratings boards supercede the MPA ratings in Canada. If you get trailers made for the US market, they will have a MPA ratings tag.------------------
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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 07-14-2000, 11:32 AM:
The theatres branch actually requires the exchanges to remove the green tags at the exchange but some still slip out
In Ontario they must not be shown
Posted by Carl King (Member # 398) on 07-14-2000, 10:01 PM:
Hi folks:The green MPA ratings notices do arrive on many trailers and prints here in my province of New Brunswick. I cut them out of the trailers because they don't apply here in Canada. It is harder to remove them from the print becaue usually their is a logo or something following.
Posted by Dave Cutler (Member # 515) on 07-14-2000, 11:33 PM:
I agree Carl, I am in the states where MPAA does matter. I have to remove them due to a theatre policy (AMC) and hate doing it. But that's a different thread. I find it odd that they don't just print seperate trailers for Canada, I would think the market would be big enough to justify it. Especially with Deluxe Toronto up there.
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 10-03-2002, 07:45 PM:
This month brings 2 movies that should have different trailers.Bowling for Columbine goes out through United Artists (MGM) in the US and Alliance Atlantis in Canada. Formula 51 opens 10/18 through Screen Gems (Sony) in the States and Alliance Atlantis up north.
Since those 2 pictures were co-financed by Alliance Atlantis -- and that company is Canada's de facto mini-major -- it shouldn't be hard for them to prepare separate trailers.
Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-03-2002, 08:51 PM:
Alliance Atlantis has the lab splice in their (used) logo after the MGM/Sony/whoever logo in both the trailers and the actual release prints. Ocassionally they do a bad job at this and splice them on out of frame - like my sneak showing Austin Powers 3 print.
Posted by Alex Grasic (Member # 1371) on 10-11-2002, 03:13 AM:
Ya, those Alliance "attachments" are indeed a work of CRAP. I usually just remove them just because in the past, they've always caused problems for me. Yes they were small problems but what it comes down to on trailers is that they look like crap! Just recently I've noticed that Alliance is putting proper "Alliance" trailers on the trailers.