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   The Beta Distribution Model?

   

   dorpus, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 3:14am

   
   

   Perhaps leaks are good for the industry, because select audiences will have early reactions, so the movie makers know what to expect in box office revenues.
   
   In the future, could we have a "living document" model of movies in which audiences come up with ideas for improving a given movie, so that upgrade patches are continuously downloaded? Then the "same" movie will be different each week. We could make many different versions of the "same" movie that appeals to different audiences, telling them what they want to hear. (Hollywood already does this to some degree.)
   
   

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   Re: The Beta Distribution Model?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 7:17am

   
   

   I think this movie is all ready out ... It's called " MY LIFE SUCKING AT BILL'S TEATS " ... The Microsoft " feel good " " instant classic " movie of our generation.

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   Re: The Beta Distribution Model?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 9:07am

   
   

   I'm not confident that a Living Document can work for movies. With software, any homie with a shell can implement a patch, but to alter one second of one scene in a movie - one that's not CG - requires a complete rehoot of the entire scene, which can take several takes. Add into the fact that people age visibly with time, unfortunately also becomine visibly injured or dying as well, occasionally, and suddenly the ability to reshoot a scene goes from Expensive to Impossible.
   
   This Living Document idea will be predicated on a completely CG method of movie creation, and the MPAA will not allow so many actors to be out of mandated work. I'm sure the commercials will come out, just like they must have been in the blacklisting era: "Are YOUR actors real? Don't use a computer to do the job of a human."
   
   
   
   

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   Can't believe they've just figured this out!

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 9:51am

   
   

   I mean, jees, everyone has seen the Two Towers film with the "For Cannes Film Festival Only" message on the bottom - and it's not from a video camera!
   
   Saw the Hulk the other day too - it was so good, it must have been done in-house.
   
   Plus some of the culprits are cinema projectionists.
   
   Gone are the days of the guy in the cinema with a camcorder and the rustle of popcorn and people's heads popping up.

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   Inside Leaks

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 10:49am

   
   

   I would have imagined that the vast majority of " leaks " come from insiders to begin with. I mean someone has to get a decent copy in order to share it. These lame stories about people sneaking into advance showings with a camcorder never really jived with me. Not only does the leaker get the notoriety ( if chosen ) but most likely is getting paid in some manner.

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   No Subject Given

   

   LittleW0lf, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 12:43pm

   
   

   Finally people are starting to wake up. How many times do I have to show up to the movie theater wearing a pirate costume before someone figures out it isn't the customers that are the problem, but the insiders. (Maybe I should start showing up at the movie companies wearing the pirate costume instead?)
   
   "Ar, there be pirates in the movie companies."

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   The Future Of Films

   

   T Burnberg, Jul 14th, 2008 @ 3:54pm

   
   

   Hi.
   
   I've got an idea for a Film I call it "THE SHADOWRIDER" a fantasy film done in the 80's panache of Films such as Ghostbusters Flight Of The Navigator Back To The Future without the comedy Austin Powers: The Man Of Mystery does.
   
   It's all the concept of UFOs and Aliens done in away to what Ghostbusters did very similar to Ghostbusters without Ghosts and Proton Packs and ghost traps in it but something very like it in that kind of approach and manner.
   
   Screenplay registered at ProtectRite #: R692 13102
   
   I would like to know if any Producer from Hollywood
   20th Century Fox Paramount Coloumbia Sony Tri Star will take that on.
   
   I'm a member of InkTip.
   
   Thanks.

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