RocknRoll wrote:Don wrote:If it hits Pirate Bay, I'll be sure to share.
Journey's overall Album sales seem to be doing well with or without the publicity. If the film does premiere in the next six months, it will most likely be during the down season (no tour and no album release) so maybe it can help Pineda on his solo endeavors if anything.
As a film made independent of the band, I'm not sure if it can be packaged with a Journey album unless Nomota wants to go ahead and name itself as the distributor.
I don't think the full tour is out yet, I heard it will be a late summer/fall tour.
I'm sure the producer/director are still looking for an Oscar nomination on this one and my understanding is (I think from you) that they won't qualify as an independent release if the band finances or distributes the film. You know more about this than I do! If it's a TV release I'm assuming this doesn't come into play?
I think they might have gave up on the Oscar nomination. Last year they pulled their 13 minute trailer for the film because anything over ten minutes would disqualify the film for consideration. This time around all I see is the 13 minute clip so, unless Academy rules have changed, that part seems t o have been put to the wayside.
Here are the rules.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Eligibility
To be eligible for 85th Academy Awards consideration, a documentary feature must complete both a seven-day commercial run in a theater in Los Angeles County, and a seven-day commercial run in a theater in the Borough of Manhattan during the eligibility period.
The eligibility period for documentary features begins on January 1, 2012, and ends on December 31, 2012. All paperwork must be completed and received by the Academy no later than 30 days after the end of the qualifying runs. For films completing their qualifying runs after August 15, 2012, all paperwork, including legal contracts, must be completed and received by the Academy by 5 p.m. PT on Monday, September 24, 2012. Those films submitting paperwork by September 24 with a planned qualifying run before the end of the calendar year, but which may not have a locked picture by the September 24 deadline, may request an extension on the DVD submission only to October 24.
Both commercial runs must take place in the same eligibility period and within two years of the motion picture’s completion date. A run in only one of the qualifying cities disqualifies a picture from Academy Awards contention in the Documentary Feature category in any year. Documentaries submitted for consideration for the 85th Academy Awards in any category will not be eligible for consideration in subsequent Awards years in any category. The picture must be submitted in the same Awards year in which it first qualifies.
The picture must be exhibited using 35mm or 70mm film, or in a 24- or 48- frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, source image format conforming to ST 428-1:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master—Image Characteristics;
image compression (if used) conforming to ISO/IEC 15444-1 (JPEG 2000), and image and sound file formats suitable for exhibition in commercial Digital Cinema sites.
The audio in a typical Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is 5.1 channels of discrete audio and that is the preferred audio configuration, although up to 7.1 channels is acceptable. The minimum for a non-mono configuration of the audio shall be three channels as Left, Center, Right (a Left/Right configuration is not acceptable in a theatrical environment).
The audio data shall be formatted in conformance with ST 428-2:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master – Audio Characteristics and ST 428-3:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master Audio Channel Mapping and Channel Labeling.
Screenings during each of the qualifying runs must occur at least twice daily and must begin between noon and 10 p.m. The motion picture must be exhibited for paid admission, and must be advertised during each of its runs in at least one of these major newspapers in each city: The New York Times, Time Out New York or The Village Voice (New York); Los Angeles Times or LA Weekly (Los Angeles). The film must have a movie critic review in either The New York Times and/or Los Angeles Times. A television critic review will not be accepted. Advertisements must have minimum dimensions of one inch by two inches and must include the theater, film title and the dates and screening times of the qualifying exhibitions. Advertising must begin on the first day of the qualifying run.
Works that are essentially promotional or instructional are not eligible, nor are works that are essentially unfiltered records of performances.
Only individual documentary works are eligible. This excludes from consideration:
episodes extracted from a larger series,
segments taken from a single “composite” program, and
alternate versions of ineligible works.
The significant dialogue or narration must be in English, or the entry must have English-language subtitles.
Films that, in any version, receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release will not be eligible for Academy Awards. (This includes broadcast and cable television as well as home video marketing and Internet transmission, with the exception of password-protected Internet screenings for press review or film festival submission.) Ten minutes or ten percent of the running time of a film, whichever is shorter, is allowed to be shown in a nontheatrical medium prior to the film’s theatrical release.
