Hals
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Post by Hals on Mar 25, 2005 19:53:10 GMT
PP website says "late April 2005" as a release date !!!
Is this old news or has it just been updated ?
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Post by Dr_Moreau on Mar 25, 2005 20:00:31 GMT
Its news to me.  Thanks |
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Post by Anthony on Mar 25, 2005 20:02:19 GMT
LAte April, i wonder when they will give an exact release date.
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Post by dudalb on Mar 25, 2005 20:14:18 GMT
Re pendragon's new release date:
Fool Me Once, Shame On You,
Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me.
Hines and his release date is remings me of the Peanuts routine involving Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football.....
I really hope some of the people who seem to have come to grips with reality about this film don's suffer a relapse in Never Never Land because of a New Release Date....
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syrtismajor
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Heat rays are for wimps, all hail the egg whisk!
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Post by syrtismajor on Mar 25, 2005 20:33:42 GMT
Not a total surprise there,
at least it shows there is still something going on behind the website.
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Post by McTodd on Mar 25, 2005 20:37:06 GMT
PP website says "late April 2005" as a release date !!! Is this old news or has it just been updated ? Must be very recent. I've a nasty feeling this is going to turn into one of those end-of-the-world cult things, you know, where the Leader declares the world will end on March 30, said date comes and goes with nary a whimper, the Leader announces that actually he was in error and it's going to happen for sure in three weeks, his followers gather again on a hill, it comes and goes, ad infinitum, ad nauseam... And all the while the Followers give their Leader the benefit of the doubt, condemning dissenters as heretics. This may get very tedious... |
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Post by KINSELLA on Mar 25, 2005 20:45:19 GMT
Well - they must know they're cutting it short! All the press release dates and everything else! 30th March - why so exact on a date when it is not?
Will it be in April or will it be in June - in time to clash with Paramount's version?
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 25, 2005 20:59:04 GMT
Hmmmmmm, April starts next week, and even this late (yes it is late) they still can't give a date?. Thats not right.
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Post by McTodd on Mar 25, 2005 21:04:44 GMT
Hmmmmmm, April starts next week, and even this late (yes it is late) they still can't give a date?. Thats not right. Ah, not right for any normal film company, but this is the ineffably useless Pendragon Pictures... |
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Post by KINSELLA on Mar 25, 2005 21:05:00 GMT
That's right H_C. Either the film has not been completed or distribution rights are still being negotiated - i.e. cinema screenings or DVD releases. There are still no updates with regards to the production files, Special Effects progress etc so what is happening?
Their web-site seems to have developed a slight problem with communication with the outside world!
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Post by McTodd on Mar 25, 2005 21:06:15 GMT
Their web-site seems to have developed a slight problem with communication with the outside world! Whaddaya mean 'developed'? It's always been cr*ap! |
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Post by KINSELLA on Mar 25, 2005 21:23:31 GMT
I have visited their web-site again and can see no re-mastering of a trailer! Also, I cannot see the April release date, Hals?
Where is this, please - or did you receive an email from PP?
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 25, 2005 21:25:45 GMT
Hit your F5 button to refresh the page
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Post by Ashe Raven on Mar 25, 2005 23:15:04 GMT
Hmmmmmm, April starts next week, and even this late (yes it is late) they still can't give a date?. Thats not right. My thoughts exactly. Get the feeling he's pushing his limit of good will to the wire somewhat? |
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Post by dudalb on Mar 25, 2005 23:28:23 GMT
It's too late for any widepread April release.You have to book theaters five of six weeks in advance for any kind of real release. And with the big films starting to roll out in Late April, the competion for theater screens gets stiff.
The only thing in the press release I beleive, to be frank, is the DVD release date in June.
Just in time for it the Pendragon film to get pushed off the shelves by the George Pal Version DVD SPecial Edition.
It's Ed Wood all over again.
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Post by uuulllaaa on Mar 25, 2005 23:33:25 GMT
There playing the same game as they did with the trailers,now you having it ,now your not etc etc etc .....
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Post by themotile on Mar 25, 2005 23:54:50 GMT
Come on guys didnt we expect this? As we got nearer the announced date it was a forgon conclusion that something would come from Hines, notice he never mentions the lack of promissed trailers in Feb and early March. Its a tactic to buy more time, to keep the hard core casting down the heretics who doubt the glorious leader until he can get the DVD deal set in stone.
You know the ultra bad and highly contraversial 'bum fights' 1 2 & 3 (I am not a fan of this but its a good example) all had better distribution (its sold in HMV and Vergin) and better public relations (there web site is updated all the time) than Pendragon and they arnt film makers, they are just students paying tramps to run into walls and they filmed it. Now thats sad.
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Post by dudalb on Mar 26, 2005 0:07:31 GMT
I really think the DVD date is set in stone. That is the one part of the Hines Press Release I believe.
The "Theatrical release" will probably be Hines renting a couple of theaters so he can claim it had a Threatircal release...the same tactic he used with his timeless masterpiece "Bug Wars".
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Post by themotile on Mar 26, 2005 4:38:33 GMT
'Bug Wars" only made it to one screening at a Seattle film festival. Its often said it made it to Cannes but it didnt, just a little Seattle festival, someone with cash and a desire to see an authentic WOTW happened to be there.
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Post by Lensman on Mar 27, 2005 6:49:28 GMT
Hines is no longer talking about any trailers in theatres or on TV, so I think it's clear Pendragon is no longer trying for a "wide" release. I'd say there is a very good chance it will be shown at the SF Museum in Seattle, but I think it's rather iffy that it will be shown anywhere else. Possibly a very few art houses in the U.S. And I think having a simultaneous opening overseas for a "worldwide" release is even more iffy at this point.
I feel confident that the DVD will indeed be released as promised in this latest press release, because not doing so would completely fail to capitalize on the Paramount advertising.
As others have said, it would be better at this late date for Pendragon to have a showing on the Sci-Fi Channel than to have it shown in just a few "art house" cinemas-- that would be a much better promo for the DVD-- but there's no indication Hines is trying for that. Too bad.
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