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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 03-19-2001 05:40 AM

According to the IMDB, this went out last Friday (limited) in the USA.

I was wondering how your prints turned out. Ours were exceptionally good...very sharp and very bright.

Anyone running it?

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Anthony Matarazzo
Film Handler

Posts: 30
From: Brisbane Australia
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-19-2001 07:05 AM

I ran the the first print here in Australia for the Premier -- But when i was doing the test screening the print was out of sync !!

Tom Long came here to open it !! Great movie
and great soundtrack normally the Aussie movies are very soft.

I hope you enjoy if over there as it bid pritty good over here

Jeffry L. Johnson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 809
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 03-19-2001 03:16 PM

Two prints opened the Cleveland International Film Festival last Thursday. I didn't work on those prints or see them onscreen. I was busy inspecting some of the ~20 prints that played Friday.

I shipped out _House of Mirth_ this morning and noticed that three of the eight reels had printed leader identification claiming the film is "Flat". The other five reels correctly identify the film as "Scope".

_Baraka_ plays in 70mm Wednesday evening.
http://www.clevelandfilm.org/index.asp

Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-20-2001 06:47 PM

The Dish opened on 6 screens in the United States last Friday. It gossed $70,612 or $11,769 per screen. Ky tells me that is a poor opening for a film that is playing in NY & LA. Also, it opened on a Wednesday so it had two extra days in which to gross.

We still have hopes, but it didn't strike a spark in NY & LA. It was a generaly poor weekend at the box office anyway.

Aaron Haney
Master Film Handler

Posts: 265
From: Cupertino, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 04-01-2001 11:55 PM

quote:
I was wondering how your prints turned out. Ours were exceptionally good...very sharp and very bright.

I saw a trailer for "The Dish" friday night, and I could not believe just how good it looked! It was very sharp and had extremely rich colors. None of the other trailers (nor the movie I actually was there to see) looked quite that good. I wonder why it looked so exceptional?

On a similar note: A while back I saw a trailer for "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" which was printed very dark. It was the first thing shown at this particular screening, so I sat there thinking to myself, "oh no, another severly underlit screen, I guess I won't be coming back to this multiplex again ...", but of course when the next trailer came up, I realized it was just the print job on that particular trailer. Still, it was very odd seeing a piece of film printed that dark.

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