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John Hawkinson
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From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-19-2002 02:59 PM

Hmm. It looks like Sony is doing more shorts (after Chubb Chubbs). I wasn't paying close attention, but on Friday evening their web site made this change to the entry for Eight Crazy Nights:

code:

    Studio Official Web Site                                                    
    Columbia http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/eightcrazynights/               
    THIS FILM OPENS 11/27/02                                                    
+   Feature Short: Meatball (attached; 1 min, 59 sec)                           
    National Security (attached)                                                
    Anger Management (enclosed)

and then today they renamed it:

code:

    Film Format Run Time Release Date Sound Rating                              
-   Flat 82 min. Nov 27, 2002 DTS/SDDS/SR/SRD PG-13                             
+   Flat 78 min. Nov 27, 2002 DTS/SDDS/SR/SRD PG-13                             
    Studio Official Web Site                                                    
    Columbia http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/eightcrazynights/               
    THIS FILM OPENS 11/27/02                                                    
-   Feature Short: Meatball (attached; 1 min, 59 sec)                           
+   Feature Short: A Day With The Meatball (attached)                           
    National Security (attached)                                                
    Anger Management (enclosed)                                                 
    *NON-SONY ENCLOSURES*

Anyone have any more information?
The only other mention I see is Filmjerk, which just mentions the title and describes it as a "two minute short."

I'm curious if we can expect to see more of these from Sony if they are well-received, and if other studios are likely to start including their own shorts with features. Personally, I think it's a great thing.

--jhawk

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Michael Atkinson
Film Handler

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From: Gainesville, FL, USA
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posted 11-19-2002 03:33 PM

I am just curious and wondering what the address is for the Sony website you are mentioning.

In addition, I do agree with you about having shorts with feature films because they can somewhat make up for a bad movie like what the Chubb Chubbs did for MIB2. Sony is probably releasing these shorts to build support for their computer animation studio ‘Imageworks’. If they are successful, I would not be surprised that in a couple of years they will eventually release a full-length computer animated feature and try to compete with Pixar.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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posted 11-19-2002 03:54 PM

From John's post above:

Columbia http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/eightcrazynights/

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Michael Atkinson
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posted 11-19-2002 04:23 PM

I was actually wondering if Sony Pictures has an exhibitor site like Fox, WB, Paramount, and Universal for finding out about trailer enclosures and film formats.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 11-19-2002 06:51 PM

Yes, Sony has an exhibitor relations site: www.sonypicturesreleasing.com

Also "Meatball" is the name of Adam Sandler's production company. So maybe one of those shorts is simply a trailer for an upcoming movie?

Doesn't really matter, the whole thing is going to be [bs]

anyway.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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posted 11-19-2002 09:17 PM

Wasn't Mr. Deeds a "Happy Madison Production"? Has he changed the name already?

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John Hawkinson
Film God

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posted 11-19-2002 09:19 PM

Yeah, Daryl, you did misinterpret Michael's question. Mike Blakesly calls it correctly, though, the information above is snipped from the access-controlled area of www.sonypicturesreleasing.com.

--jhawk

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Thomas Procyk
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From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-19-2002 09:31 PM

Something on this thread is causing me to have to scroll sideways. [Mad]

I really wish they would include shorts more often. I really liked Roger Rabbit with "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" But the only thing that might cause them to flop these days is the onslaught of stuff before the movie as it is already.

=TMP=

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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posted 11-19-2002 09:38 PM

quote:
Something on this thread is causing me to have to scroll sideways.

I think it's the [code] tags that John used in his first post. John, maybe you could try changing them to [quote] tags.

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John Hawkinson
Film God

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From: Cambridge, MA, USA
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posted 11-19-2002 09:43 PM

CODE tags preserve whitespace (though they don't do so in a monospaced fashion), and QUOTE tags do not. Since the whitespace is significant to the diff -u output, it is appropriate to preserve them.

It sure would be nice to fix the CODE tag to be less...glaring, as well as to use a monospaced (i.e. <PRE> or whatever) font...

--jhawk

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