Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 12 hours ago, Maltaran said: Even the Phantom Menace had six weeks between US and UK release dates These days you can basically put finishing touches on a film right up to the week of its release and send it out to theaters on a high speed dedicated network connection. TPM came out in the days where physical film got projected on screen. The Phantom Menace was just over 2h 15m in length. If a 35mm film reel maxes out at 20 minutes, that's 7 reels weighing about 80 lbs combined. You have to print, package and ship that mass to every screen that shows that film. You can imagine the amount of work an international release would take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felice Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 3 hours ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said: TPM came out in the days where physical film got projected on screen. The Phantom Menace was just over 2h 15m in length. If a 35mm film reel maxes out at 20 minutes, that's 7 reels weighing about 80 lbs combined. You have to print, package and ship that mass to every screen that shows that film. You can imagine the amount of work an international release would take. And presumably they wanted to reuse the same film reels in different countries, so they had to wait till the local release was over before they'd be available to stick on boats to send around the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 8 hours ago, felice said: And presumably they wanted to reuse the same film reels in different countries, so they had to wait till the local release was over before they'd be available to stick on boats to send around the world. I don't know how much that happened between theaters but I could see that going on in multiplexes for sure. You have a film playing on two screens with the start times staggered by some interval. Once reel one is finished on screen "a" you have "X" amount of time to rewind it and get it over to screen "b" and so on. Maybe there's a rights issue that complicates that; I don't know. Domestically (US & Canada), TPM was on 2,970 screens its 1st weekend; peaking at 3,126 screens on its 6th weekend (according to Box Office Mojo). I'm guessing but I would imagine those prints don't start shipping until maybe 1-2 weeks before the premiere(?). You can imagine what a massive undertaking that is. ETA: or... https://www.sprocketschool.org/wiki/Interlocking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Kind of mental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Young Maester Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Well thank god for technology. I still remember the days when projectors were used in cinemas. Now I can just simply download the movie into my computer and watch it at my hearts content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Entertainment Weekly is releasing a listicle of the top 100 Star Wars characters in honor of May 4. They rank Assaj Ventress 5 places BEHIND Paige Tico. I will spare you my rant. But I hope there will be YouTube videos about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 16 minutes ago, RhaenysBee said: They rank Assaj Ventress 5 places BEHIND Paige Tico. I had to look up who Paige Tico was. I'm guessing it's just because she was in one of the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 14 minutes ago, DMC said: I had to look up who Paige Tico was. I'm guessing it's just because she was in one of the movies. Did you really? when she was such a full fledged character with so much impact on the story and many meaningful ties to other full fledged characters! My, I just can’t believe you had to look her up…! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I didn't look her up but I had to think about it for a bit. Yeah, that's B.S. Apparently her bomber was called the Cobalt Hammer. The pilot of the Cobalt Hammer was Nix Jerd. Now you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Don't forget to put our the Chocky Milk and Chicky Nuggies tomorrow night for Baby Yoda to visit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 10 hours ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said: I didn't look her up but I had to think about it for a bit. Yeah, that's B.S. Apparently her bomber was called the Cobalt Hammer. The pilot of the Cobalt Hammer was Nix Jerd. Now you know. Now I get why she’s in the top 50! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted May 4, 2022 Author Share Posted May 4, 2022 Obi-Wan is behaving in the most uncivilized fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 I do want to be excited for this, the story of Obi-wan’s journey to hermithood could be interesting. But honestly there are too many reasons for me to be fearful: - being burnt by Bobby Fett - Im done with this story, who cares any more about any of this? - some of those character designs and effects are quite ropey. - I have no confidence Disney knows what it’s doing with Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 trailer already posted, oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Heartofice said: I do want to be excited for this, the story of Obi-wan’s journey to hermithood could be interesting. But honestly there are too many reasons for me to be fearful: - being burnt by Bobby Fett - Im done with this story, who cares any more about any of this? - some of those character designs and effects are quite ropey. - I have no confidence Disney knows what it’s doing with Star Wars. Who's this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said: Who's this? Spin off of a spin off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Some guy that sold you a bag of oregano? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryk Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 I've got high hopes for this. I think there's a lot of storytelling potential. Seeing Obi-wan keep watch over young Luke, Vader's obsession with finding Obi-wan, the Jedi having to resist the temptation to help people because they have to stay hidden... Boba Fett wasnt good but the fourth and fifth episodes were brilliant. Disney are hit and miss, hopefully this will be a hit. The potential is definitely there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Heartofice said: I do want to be excited for this, the story of Obi-wan’s journey to hermithood could be interesting. But honestly there are too many reasons for me to be fearful: - being burnt by Bobby Fett - Im done with this story, who cares any more about any of this? - some of those character designs and effects are quite ropey. - I have no confidence Disney knows what it’s doing with Star Wars. All of these things... But dammit... they do know how to make a trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Rhom said: All of these things... But dammit... they do know how to make a trailer. I'm pretty sure they write, shoot, edit the trailers and then look into making a pilot script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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