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Richard Quesnelle
Film Handler

Posts: 67
From: Penetang, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 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?

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Ethan Harper
E-dawggg!!!

Posts: 325
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 07-13-2000 11:37 PM

Are yoru trailers brand new or have they been used before?

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 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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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 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

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Carl King
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 199
From: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 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.

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Dave Cutler
Master Film Handler

Posts: 277
From: Centennial, CO
Registered: Jun 2000

posted 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.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 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.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Film God

Posts: 3977
From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 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.

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Alex Grasic
Film Handler

Posts: 90
From: Toronto, ON, Canada
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 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.

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