![]() If a film is based upon another person’s life or upon a book or another work, applicant(s) must secure any necessary rights to make such adaptations. Please make sure you hold all copyrights to your film and its elements.įilms must be the original work of the applicant(s). Failure to respond by the final submission deadline will result in disqualification without refund of submission fees. If we discover an error with the screener, we will email the submission contact for an update. In the event of a password or screener URL change after submitting, email us immediately. The submitter is responsible for ensuring that their screener link and password are active. Online screeners must be available to stream we do not accept any movies that must be downloaded. Our preference for online screeners is password-protected Vimeo links or films uploaded directly to FilmFreeway. ![]() But if the film does exist online, just as a screening courtesy, if it is chosen, try your best to make it not view-able during the screening weekend. Your film does not need to be a premiere and it can exist online to be considered for the festival. More than one entry may be submitted however an official entry and entry fee must accompany each submission. The film stars Saoirse Ronan in the story of a young girl who is taken over by a visiting alien - named Wanda.In English or in the original language with English subtitles. Wang of Wanda and his associates have made peace with the war on Asian invaders in “Red Dawn,” they may yet want to look in on “The Host,” a science fiction thriller set for release by Open Road early next year. Though rated PG-13, the remake mixes youth and guns in a test of the audience tolerance for violence, especially after recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin. It depicted youth resistance to a Communist invasion of the United States the new film tells the same story, and originally had Chinese villains, which were changed to North Koreans, after objections were raised in China. The original “Red Dawn,” released in 1984, was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most violent movie ever made. ![]() Asked about any concerns over involvement with “Red Dawn,” Wanda said only that it was “premature” to discuss its relationship with Open Road, and that its ownership of AMC “will have no impact” on that company’s programming decisions. Ortenberg described the company’s parameters when it comes to the type of films it distributes as being “very broad.” He would not, for instance, rule out distributing a film rated NC-17, though Open Road is less inclined toward art-house fare than toward pictures with potentially wide appeal.įor Thanksgiving, Open Road will offer “Red Dawn,” for which it is providing marketing support, while FilmDistrict, another independent, distributes it. Ortenberg is back in the horror business with “Silent Hill: Revelation 3D,” a film based on a video game, with some nightmarish moments, that is set for release for Halloween. It is a partnership that could push each out of his comfort zone, as Mr. Through Open Road, Wang Jianlin, Wanda’s chairman and president, finds himself paired with the billionaire Philip Anschutz, who controls Regal, and has made family-oriented films like the “Chronicles of Narnia” series through his Walden Media. In a twist, Open Road will soon add the still-untested potential of a new owner, the Dalian Wanda Group of China, which is expected to complete its announced purchase of AMC this month. Distributors, he points out, continue to have an interest in prolonging the stay of a movie on screens, while theater owners are generally eager to get on with the next big opening. “They’re running two totally different businesses,” Mr. Tom Sherak, a film business consultant who has been an executive at film companies as well as theater chains, points out that larger-scale matchups between studios and exhibitors, which were occasionally permitted after 1948, have mostly been abandoned, as Universal gave up its interest in the Cineplex Odeon theaters and Warner and Paramount backed away from a once-substantial presence in the Mann chain. Magnolia Pictures is similarly integrated with the Landmark Theaters chain, and both companies are owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban. IFC Films, for instance, has used its IFC Center theater in Manhattan to screen, and gain media attention for, films like the documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.” Smaller experiments, mostly among independents, have shown the potential power in crossing distribution with theater ownership - something that can be done legally by companies that do not pose the same antitrust problems that led to restrictions on Hollywood’s majors.
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