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Author Topic: Apocalypse Now distributor? Mike McBeath Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Greensburg, KS 67054 Registered: May 2015 posted 03-23-2016 01:29 PM                     We have a college that wants to come watch Apocalypse Now as part of their class, but we cannot figure out who holds the rights to it. We have contacted all the major studios and nobody (including our film booker) seems to know who to talk to. Anyone have any ideas?  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-23-2016 02:12 PM                     The last theatrical re-release, the Redux Version, was Miramax. I believe, but don't know for sure, that video rights are still with Paramount Hove Video.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-23-2016 02:26 PM                        It's possible Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope holds the rights. If not, they'd certainly know who does. Zoetrope  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 03-23-2016 02:47 PM                        If this is for a classroom use, does who owns the rights even matter? Isn't there an exception for educational purposes?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-23-2016 02:53 PM                        He said the class wants to watch it in his theater. It doesn't really matter who's watching, what matters is where it's shown. (As ridiculous as that is.) Mike - since nobody will "claim" it you could probably just play it and not worry about it. If somebody then contacts you later about it, tell them you tried to find out who owned it and couldn't. But it's more likely nobody will care.  |  IP: Logged Michael Putlack Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Fort Collins, Colorado Registered: Sep 2011 posted 03-24-2016 06:21 PM                        Park Circus has the Uk rights, so they'd probably be able to point you in the right direction as far as US rights.  |  IP: Logged Rick Cohen Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: Amherst, New York Registered: Feb 2011 posted 03-25-2016 01:34 AM                        In 2011 it was released by Optimum Releasing.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-25-2016 12:51 PM                        According to our records, we last played it on August 6, 2013, and the DCP drive shipped directly from American Zoetrope.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 03-25-2016 05:18 PM                     I wonder if they have film prints?  |  IP: Logged

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