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Topic: 2013 Academy Award Theatre Viewings Cancelled?
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-19-2013 07:05 PM
It's all about how much "noise" and visibility you are making about what you are doing. If you have a TV in a bar, you are not shouting from the rooftops that you have a TV or more specifically that you are having an EVENT in your bar based around a specific show, say, THE GOOD WIFE. Depending on how big a profile you publicly display naming names as it were, will be how much risk you run of catching the eye of the producers or CBS. And of course, once they, in this case the Academy or ABC write you a letter, their eye is caught and you are done; yet someone in another part of town might be doing the exact same thing and getting away with it. However, once someone has poked the sleeping Tyrannosaurus Rex ANYWHERE in town, and you've seen them say NO publically, then it behooves everyone else to heed the roar.
I petitioned them last year to run an awards show on our spanking new ECinema projector and at a college....an institute of higher learning with a film school no less and there came from that august academy, a deathly, foreboding silence. I wisely took that silence to mean "You try that, Bub, and you'll be singing in the upper registers."
I didn't even bother to ask this year. So if the students can't watch it in a large group in a theatre setting, they go to their dorm common rooms and watch it 20 or 30 of them at a time on a multitude of smaller screens and they get to see it anyway, only not in a theatre....so how does that "protect" the Academy brand....how does the Academy come out ahead that way? The swine.
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