3D STAR WARS for the masses...has ARRIVED! — Page 43

SilverWook said:

I still think they could work something out. Disney has partnered with other studios before in the past. None of the current Marvel films actually has a Disney logo at the beginning do they?

No, they don't, although you'll notice the Marvel logo shows up before the Paramount logo at the head of The Avengers and Iron Man 3 instead of the other way around. Disney bought Paramount out of the last two movies in the distribution deal they'd signed with Marvel, but one condition was that the Paramount logo still be used. So, they got paid something like $150 million and still got their logo in the movie (and the trailers, of course), without technically having to do anything. Must've been nice.

In any event, no, there was no Disney logo at any point in those movies.

Also, I noticed the Thor 2 trailer only has the Marvel logo.

With Episode VII, I would think Disney would do the same thing and just open with the Lucasfilm logo.

timdiggerm said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

The most mind-blowing release of an old film back into cinemas in recent years...???

Answer... 1985's 'Back To The Future' in stunning Digital 2D for it's 25th Anniversary. The remastered picture quality was so sharp, you almost needed 3D glasses just to make the image all blurry and dark, so that your view wasn't obscurred by tears of joy.

If you release SW in crystal clear Digital/70mm film 2D, on today's big-ass screens with a thundering soundtrack who needs Stereoscopy?

Digital, huh? I saw it on October 23rd (they gave me a free poster!) and it was almost certainly projected from 35mm - I think I remember the characteristic wiggle and shake.

But it was worth the money to see that movie on the big screen.

It could've still been (probably was) a digital projection. The wiggle and shake could've simply been from the film going through the camera "on the day," unless you definitively remember cigarrette burns and splices, of course.

I wasn't able to catch a screening of BTTF (did they do one here in the States?), but I remember hearing about it. A new 2K master was created for the blu-ray release and thus could be shown in theaters in an up-to-modern-standards digital form.

The 4K projection of the final cut of Blade Runner I saw on opening night at the Ziegfeld back in '07 gives pretty much anything else a run for its money, though.

SilverWook said:

I predict that AOTR will accidentally be screened instead. Mass confusion and rioting ensues when they attempt to correct the error. ;)

I'd be willing to do a Q&A afterward.

doubleofive said:

 

Fang Zei said:

With Episode VII, I would think Disney would do the same thing and just open with the Lucasfilm logo.

Heck, Disney may throw a few million at Fox to let them use the fanfare.

 

Or Disney could use it as a bartering chip to get the distribution rights to I-VI right now instead of waiting until 2021 (and until never in the case of epIV).

Seriously, if I were Disney, I'd see that as a pretty sweet deal. Maybe they could work it out this way:

In exchange for Fox getting theatrical rights to the ST, Disney would immediately get full rights to all non-theatrical distribution of the existing Star Wars movies. If I were Disney, I would even let them hold on to theatrical distribution of those movies as well, at least until they expire in 2021. Remember, Disney would only be losing the distribution fee on the ST's theatrical release, which would be no different than lfl's situation on Empire, Jedi and the PT, only this time they'd hold on to everything else (home video, etc).

Like I said before, in my ideal movie geek world, 20th Century Fox would have theatrical distribution rights on any Star Wars movie with "Episode" in the title from now until the end of time, just so anyone doing a "saga" marathon would hear that fanfare at the beginning of every movie.

Either way, something needs to eventually be agreed upon if only because of the situation with epIV. I mean, when the other five movies expire I'm assuming Disney's gonna at least want those five back. What are they gonna do then, pay Fox a fee just so they can include ANH in the I-IX blu-ray? I would think they'd want it back as well.

Or I'm delirious, Disney will simply let Fox make their money off any new release of I-VI Disney wants to do for the next eight years (which, in any event, will hopefully include the restored OOT), and keep any new future Star Wars project - ST or otherwise - completely under their own umbrella from beginning to end.

I can't properly explain why this is such a big deal to me, but an Episode VII without that fanfare .... it just doesn't seem right

Also, when Abrams was hired as director didn't someone from lfl say they'd be working with bad robot on ep7? Jeez, I hope that doesn't mean we're seeing that logo pop up at the beginning as well.

Davnes007 said:

What Disney could do is to tell 20th C. Fox that if they don't sell back the distribution rights of the saga, they simply won't allow any releases of any (6) Star Wars movies until after 2020. Simple.

 

And...why do some people still say Fox owns Episode IV?

Hmmm, quite true, hadn't thought of that. Good point.

Oh, and I just meant the distribution rights. By this point, we all know about Fox's gifting of Star Wars 77's rights to Lucas in exchange for distribution on the PT. It's just that Fox still owns distribution on Star Wars 77 in perpetuity. I'm guessing Lucas' lawyers couldn't work this out back in the mid-90's???