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Author Topic: Memorable film(s) released on Nov. 20th Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-20-2011 11:46 AM                     Released on this day in 1987...  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-20-2011 02:53 PM                     Vittorio Storaro won one of his Best Cinematography Oscars with this movie. Too bad there isn't a good version of it on video. The Blu-ray currently available has some image problems and it is cropped to that 2:1 ratio, despite the Technovision OAR being 2.35:1.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 11-20-2011 03:40 PM                     Last Emperor was the picture that resulted in Garth Drabinsky declaring war on Columbia Pictures at the time when Columbia was owned by Coca-Cola. Drabinsky at that time was head of Lowes/Cineplex-Odeon chain. Most of the LCE theatres in the major markets (including many large single screens) were to open "The Last Emperor" for Christmas 1987. At the last second Columbia bumped Emporer back to February 1988 (for the academy awards) leaving many LCE theatres without a major picture to play for that Christmas (most other releases had already been contracted for by competing theatres and that was back in the days of product splitting before ultra wide releases). So what did Drabinsky do? Well besides refusing to play further Columbia pics, he ordered that all of the LCE theatres in the entire nation and Canada would also stop serving Coke. It wasnt too much longer that Coca Cola sold Columbia to Sony. PPS.... On September 13, 2011 the Ontario (Canada) Court of Appeals upheld Drabinsky's securities and fraud conviction for cooking the books of Livent which was his broadway and live theatre production company. A theatre owner cooking his books... can you imagine that?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 11-20-2011 06:46 PM                     quote: Jonathan M. Crist Drabinsky at that time was head of Lowes/Cineplex-Odeon chain. Most of the LCE theatres in the major markets (including many large single screens) were to open "The Last Emperor" for Christmas 1987. 1) It's Loews (Lowes is the chain of hardware stores) 2) Cineplex Odeon merged with Loews to form LCE in 1998.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 11-21-2011 09:06 AM                     Chris - you are correct on the dates. Cineplex Odeon had not yet merged with Loews (I spelled in correctly this time) when Drabinsky went to war with Coca Cola in 1987. I do remember that after the merger between Cineplex Odeon and Loews the resulting LCE entity went bankrupt in 2001. I understand that Drabinsky is soon to begin serving his five year fraud sentence (if he hasnt already). Come to think of it ... what happened with Drabinsky and Livent might make a good movie or maybe even a broadway play (The Producers Redux?)  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-21-2011 03:45 PM                     I remember that 'war' very well. The two CO theatres in the Boise market were ticked that the MANN Theatres 4plex (that I was working at this time) got this film that early February...and knew one was scheduled "Emperor" for the holidays. But, I knew that we had to play a bunch of junk stuff from Columbia in order to get "Emperor"..  |  IP: Logged

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