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Topic: Miramax to release "KILL BILL" in two parts
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Don E. Nelson
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 138
From: Brentwood, CA, USA
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-17-2003 03:19 PM
no. no. no. Please don't get confused with this "B" Movie and think it is some kind of Miramax marketing ploy. It fooled me for a minute, I will admit! But let me explain.
This (Kill Bill) flick is a karate/kung fu (B-Type) film, and it will do OK at the Box Office because of the director, the star(UMA) the cinematography, and the style of filmmaking: All attitude and no character development.
Now here is the real truth behind the double release.....now stay with me, because this is really cool. It has never been done before in this country on such a large scale under controlled conditions.
It is Miramax's first attemp, and the industries 1st try, at an anti-piracy, stop gap method. ................. are you with me so far Joe and John? OK.
Hollywood has been paying big bucks to the Rand Corporation, a think tank in Wash. DC, to come up with ways to counter the piracy issue.
Mr. Valenti first went to the homeland security people, but he couldn't quite convince them that these "pie rats" were a threat to thesecurity of the homeland, so he went down the street to the Rand Corp., paid them some bid dollars for some big time R & D, and this is what they came up with.
Now listen to this, Chapter 1.
This film, is the prototype film to test this method of film media anti-piracy. Originally, they were going to do this with the 3 hour Director's cut of "About Schmidt", but the studio got cold feet at the last minute. So Tarantino volunteered his film, because it met all the criterial required, as set up by the Rand Corp.
Now this is where it gets interesting, see if you also agree that this is a brilliant idea, never tried before here, and it can't be simulated under lab conditions in a virtual environment, it has to be a legitimate actually released theatrical film.
Here we go Chapter 2
The first part of the film is released as a conventional 5 reeler release, everything looks normal, the prints are undistinguishable from an average print, they use the same film cans, the one sheets, lobby banners, the newspaper advertising, tv spots are all in order, the movie release approaches, the patrons buy a ticket to "Kill Bill- Part One) they get their popcorn and soda's, and sit down to see the movie.
The movie tone ads segue to the green band trailers,... then the houselights go to the auto dim mode , the curtains open (if you have curtains) and the Miramax LOGO appears,
Are you ready for this ? Chapter 3
at this point the anti piracy embeded programming automatically kicks in, it is invisible to the eye, but it can be detected by a
End of Part One.
Part Two, of this expose, will be posted when Part Two of "Kill Bill" is released.
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