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Aug 31, 2020 - 6:47 AM
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andy b
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Kinda funny back in the day films had firm release dates and they couldn't be fudged at all. Which is why the film was rushed to completion and really never fully finished. Didn't prints get shipped to the theaters the night before or something?
Nowadays films can be pushed back for months or even years. I'm not just referring to Covid either. This has been going on for many years now.
If it helps this is why firm dates at least from a Europe point of view.
Films were first released in the largest market, USA & Canada, the distributor, large or small outside North America would of done a deal with the studio & if it was a studio film, the Europe point contact would already be dealing with international, for the number of prints to fulfill play dates, firm booking from chains & a few independents, those would be prints no longer in use in the USA or Canada.
The prints would be put on a boat & sent over, cleaned at Technicolour / Deluxe or NSS (very rarely), edited in accordance to country censorship / classification (enforced in Europe not advisory), placed on film transport & delivered to the cinema on the Monday morning or no later than the Wednesday morning of the Thursday / Friday release date. If as in the 1970's it was new Release date Saturday, then of course the delivery day changes accordingly.
To co-ordinate all that you have to know 2 things, 1, when the USA / Canada would of been done with the print & 2, the logistics to move the physical prints from one continent to the other & process then to delivery.
All of that took time & so we were always working ahead of time to make sure sufficient copies were available. Hence there was often the time delay of a few months before the releases outside USA / Canada. It simply would of cost too much to make more prints when the North American copies were becoming redundant.
Nowadays with down load prints directly into the servers at the sites, you only need a day or so for the digital content package to be delivered electronically & formatted within the server & you are ready to go. That means a date can be moved to any point in time, depending on demand or popularity.
Hope that helps.
regards
andy b
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Funny how the package art uses Phase 2 Enterprise.
Solium, how can you tell? I'm just not clear on the differences (maybe I will be once the new book comes - I get it in a couple days, whee!).
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Thanks, Solium. I remembered that about the teaser poster, but hadn't noticed til now that's what they used for that packaging.
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Just chiming in on the new book - it arrived yesterday, and it's just gorgeous!
What a summer for ST TMP - first Return to Tomorrow became available on ebook, and now this!
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