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Author Topic: Mona Lisa Smile on DVD already Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 03-07-2004 11:48 AM                     Ok, first it was Lost In Translation on DVD while it is still in the first run theatres. But now, after only being released in theatres on 12/19/03, Mona Lisa Smile is on DVD already, 2 1/2 months after its release!!!? We're all going to be put out of business. How can theatres compete with this? Forget trying to open a new movie theatre on your own now. You won't make it. My blood is still boiling about the Lost In Translation thing, and now this.....  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-07-2004 01:18 PM                        Yes, I think NATO should start worrying about the video window again. There sure isn't much noise being made about that now that Digital is occupying all their attention, along with the failed trailer-volume thing.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-07-2004 03:02 PM                     It's not like Mona Lisa Smile was making any money anyway. We dropped our print after 2 weeks, taking it down to one show the second week... But Lost in Translation was BS. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-07-2004 05:01 PM                       What's "Mona Lisa Smile"?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-07-2004 05:38 PM                     'Mona Lisa Smile' = 'Julia Roberts Frowning' The first Julia film in a long time to tank. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0304415/  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 03-08-2004 04:02 AM                     Again with Return of the King. It will be released three months ahead of schedule on May 25th. Will the discounts even have it by than? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3542123.stm The Return of the King, the last in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will be released on DVD and video three months sooner than expected. The film, which won 11 Oscars last month, will be released on 25 May, producers New Line said. The date is three months ahead of the time the first two films were released in 2002 and 2001. An extended version of the film - including previously unseen footage - will follow at the end of the year. The initial DVD release of the film will include the film, as well as a 20-minute theatrical trailer and a range of behind-the-scenes material.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-08-2004 04:16 AM                        and in which theater was this 20-minute "theatrical" trailer shown, i wonder? carl  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-08-2004 12:55 PM                     WTF?!?! We were planning on this being our big summer movie!! We were going to get TWO PRINTS for a SUBRUN!!! This is the thanks New Line gives us for running Texas Chainsaw for 15 weeks! Oh, and does anyone buy New Line's spiel that "All of the extended version 35mm prints have been destroyed."? Yeah, They struck all those new prints just to destroy them. Hollywood lies. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-08-2004 01:47 PM                     Something else that was mentioned in the same LOTR article was that they are going to offer some kind of box set for all three films combined but it wont be available for two or three years because they want to add some stuff to make it "special".  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-08-2004 02:47 PM                     That 20 minute trailer was used for critic and exhibitor screenings and Sci-Fi Conventions screenings. I ran it about 10 times for select people and critics that New Line wanted to screen it for. The original "Lord of the Rings" had a special trailer that ran 25 minutes, that I ran also too. Studios make special long versions of trailers for high profile type films. These trailers are used for special type showings. Sometimes stockholders meetings, ShoWest, SciFi conventions, exhibitor screenings. Most of the time only screening rooms get to handle these trailers, not regular theatres. I still have the 25 minute version here and a 6 minute original "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" special trailer and a 7 minute original IB "My Fair Lady" trailer and a 5 minute special trailer for "Heavy Traffic".  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-08-2004 03:53 PM                        thanks for the info, bill (happy 1000th). i knew there were trailers in the 5-6 minute range, even have some. but 20 minutes i would have called a "featurette", maybe. carl  |  IP: Logged

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