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Exclusive Advance screening- didn't want people taking photos or tweeting what not.
1st time I've ever had to do it, but I guess its becoming more common - like Jay-Z kicked someone out of the advance listening party for tweeting during it when everyone was asked to shut them off. I think since phones these days do so much they are trying to limit leaks like that photo above. Oh and that pic is just before a big event does happen - but not that shot specifically. -- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
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Par for the course nowadays. At my theater, for advance screenings, security companies show up (outsourced by the movie studio). Usually a few people in suits, some with an apparent ex-legbreaking background (I think they recruit ex-military, police, etc.,.). They have to see the movie print (or, as it is nowadays, the hard drive) and write down the serial number, then watch us delete the film after showing it. They set up tables near the theater entrance and "tag and bag" cell phones using metal detectors.
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Movies are all on hard drives now, really?
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I finally saw "Resurrection" the other day, and you could see the bits and pieces of promise the movie held (probably mainly from the writing of Joss Whedon). It wasn't an awful film, by any means. But nothing compares to the "Jaws"-like suspense of the original, or the overwhelming us-vs-them hunting of the second film (with the influence of a post-"Terminator" James Cameron directing).
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They're digital. How did you think they arrive, the Film Fairy? They come in either a plastic orange box (Technicolor) or a gray cardboard box (Deluxe), and inside is a hard drive nestled in foam with its own AC cables and USB wire. Films range from only around 25-50 GB for cheaply-made films to 250+ GB for well-made or 3D films. Takes a few hours to download them, either directly into the projector's server with the USB cable (or, on some models, a harddrive port in the machine) or into a main chipserver which then distributes the prints from that server (in which case it's a few hours to download from drive to server then a few hours to download from server to projector).
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That's really fascinating.
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Of course like all files, that can be recovered with the right program.
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so when a theater advertise's a "digital" presentation, not all films are as good of presentation quality?
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Exactly, esp when he talks about transferring it to a projector and a server. With all the added security and the fear of pirating, I'm curious why they would allow it to be transferred at all.
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So the digital file, is it like an uncompressed MPEG or MP4 or AVI or what?
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