Hello Skip
..explain to me again how it "fell right off the charts" when we're still here talking about it, and it just popped up on CNN. The screenings I just described occurred a week ago. There are additional screenings occurring in local art theaters in my area - there's definitely palpable interest in the film, and rightly so. It's a unique, interesting premise.
OK.....it started with 30 artsy theaters week 1, 11 the 2nd. none now. CNN, a the art film item.....wooppie!..............there maybe a few additional artsy theaters showing it to a very limited group, film people etc.
Just because there is a few forum discussion threads doesn't mean it did not fall off the charts, Thinking about it, it would have had to make some level of interest to even make the charts, which by any standard(see above) it did not.
...Define "real" theater, because you're showing your ignorance. As a filmmaker, I would know better than you that a film's success is no longer determined by its presence in multiplexes - much of the money now comes from VOD, festival circuits, and home video sales. Escape from Tomorrow's succeeding in several of those, and that speaks nothing of its merit as a work of art (which it undoubtedly is, even if some of you scream that it isn't.)
Please provide some figures on these great sales volumes your talking of?. the sites? I cant find an great sale figure.
A real theater is a commercial theater, not a small artsy showroom. I have been to some over the years and they are usually a makeshift operation directed to film folks, of little interest in the general public.
Do yourself a favor - worry about your own problems, and let Disney worry about theirs.
Please don't tell me or anyone what we are allowed to discuss. That is what a forum is about, polite discussion of opinion. I never told you not to say your piece even if I disagree.
I agree it's quite the embarrassment to their security team that they let this happen, but it certainly seems like the EFT team did their homework and are in fairly stable legal safe zones. Needlessly hating this film because they're "criminals" (which, by the way, until any court of law says they are, they are not) is a waste of energy. At least these guys did something productive and different with "Disney."
Yes it is a shame that the maker of this film , using their little trick to film it, likely caused some people thier jobs.
As pointed out in the media and even CNN, there is opinion on both sides regarding the legal issues. I consider it to be theft of property , intellectual as well as stealing and that's criminal. I never used the word criminal, you did and you are right unless a court says so they are not criminals until proven guilty, the reason I did not use that word.
PS who ever said I hate the film, what I have seen of it I don't find interesting.
Lastly, lets face it they used *Disney * and the *Disney name* to get interest....if they had not this film would only have been seen by a even smaller group of the artsy world.
AKK
