Questions tagged [distribution]
Distribution is the process by which a film is released to audiences; by a distributor renting films to a cinema, the creation and sale of home media such as DVD, through broadcast television or via online streaming or download services.
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What are the international releases and language versions of "Richard Deacon - In Between"?
According to the Amazon page of Richard Deacon - In Between, this movie, produced in Germany, is available in English and German, where specifically the original track is in English and there's a ...
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Why is Benji currently unavailable?
In going through a series of classic movies with my kids we came to the 1974 Benji, about a lovable stray dog that rescues some kidnapped children.
I live in Pennsylvania, USA, and cannot watch it. I'...
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How often do localized versions of movies localize shots?
When a movie is released internationally, it is not unbeknown to localize credits and title sequences (on top of the must-dos — localizing audio and, often, subtitles).
But The NeverEnding Story takes ...
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Unusual for show to be on both HBO and CNN; and what exactly does "linear CNN" even mean?
I'm not a heavy television-watcher or consumer of cable content and though I hear of it often have little experience with streaming media. When it comes to CNN content I usually wait for the 2 to 20 ...
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Is The Ethel Waters Show lost media?
The Ethel Waters Show was a 1939 NBC variety special starring actress and singer Ethel Waters, in what reportedly may have been the very first appearance of a Black person on TV.
I’d love to see the ...
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How are movies and TV shows archived?
In computing world, data are archived mainly using tape drives and hard disks with redundancy, but how are TV shows and movie reels preserved? This question talks about the format but what about the ...
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Did any theatre get all endings to Clue?
The 1985 film Clue famously has three different endings, with different theatres getting a different ending.
Were there any theatres that got all three endings? Or that set out to acquire all three?
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Why did South African authorities allow Cry Freedom to be screened when Steve Biko's writings were banned?
Cry Freedom is a 1987 film about Bantu Stephen Biko. He was a black South African and an organiser and activist against the then South African apartheid regime. The film was actually shot on location ...
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Has a streaming service original program ever reached 100 episodes?
American TV series often want to reach 100 episodes so they can be sold into syndication. Streaming services, however, seem less motivated to reach this goal; Netflix series typically have 8-10 ...
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Why was Tenet released to cinemas only, even though most of them are closed throughout the US?
I've read good reviews about Christopher Nolan's new Tenet movie and wanted to go see it. Unfortunately it turned out that its only released in cinemas and all of them are currently closed down in my ...
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Who decides precisely when a film will be released?
Who decides when a film is released? We know that the director and producer work in tandem, but who specifically, job role would be preferable here, decides precisely when a film will be released into ...
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How does an online video on demand tv generate ROI [closed]
I've always wondered how online TV channels, either hosted on YouTube or on a website, guarantee return on investment, especially if the production budget is $20,000 and above
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Why are some episodes of TV shows omitted from streaming platforms?
I recently had a memory from a joke from an old episode of "I Love Lucy" (Season 5 Episode 22). I saw that the series was streaming on Hulu, but this particular episode is missing! In fact, it looks ...
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Why is Brooklyn Nine-Nine not on Netflix despite the announcement?
I've read before that Season 6 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine should be released on Netflix in March 2020 in multiple countries, including the Czech Republic:
https://nextalerts.com/brooklyn-nine-nine-season-...
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What was Amazon's rental prices prior to COVID-19 shutting theaters?
I am not much of a movie watcher, so I'm not looking at Amazon much to rent/stream movies.
A friend told me that Amazon just jacked up the price on first-run movies like Emma and The Invisible Man to ...
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Why are many movies still filmed using the "scope" aspect ratio (2.39:1) despite film no longer being widely-used?
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Today, in the cinema industry, pretty much all theaters use digital projectors for exhibition. D-Cinema standard calls for the 2K chips (most widely-used) to have 2048x1080 resolution; ...
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Are there "fewer independent theaters than ever"?
In his 09-Nov-2019 New York Times Opinion piece Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain. the director, writer and producer laments "the sameness of today’s franchise ...
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Why release "The Irishman" on Netflix within a month of theatrical release?
Looks like The Irishman (2019) is one of the most expensive films of Scorsese's career.
Wikipedia quote:
The Irishman ....is scheduled to receive a limited theatrical release
on November 1, 2019,...
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What is the TV series with the longest total screentime?
Inspired by What is the longest aired episode of a TV series?, what is the TV series that has the longest total screentime (duration of all episodes of all seasons taken together)?
I mean series with ...
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Why was such an unrevealing title originally chosen for the movie "The Assignment", and then changed for some International markets to "Tomboy"?
The low budget Michelle Rodriguez movie The Assignment involves a plot where a killer is punished by a mad surgeon by being given a male to female sex change.
It is not a great movie and was not ...
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Showing Old Movies in Theater
I live in Austin, Texas, home to Alamo Drafthouse. Alamo often shows older movies as part of a theme, a "quote along" for "Spinal Tap" where the audience is encouraged to blurt out their favorite ...
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Why wasn't Bohemian Rhapsody given a China release?
I've heard in the media how Bohemian Rhapsody has exceeded $750M in box office takings WITHOUT a China release. As China is such a big market, why would it not be shown there?
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Does any home media release of "The Office" (US) include longer version of episodes with deleted scenes?
I've recently discovered a whole cache of episode-wise deleted scene videos of The Office on YouTube. I only assume it came from the bonus features on the DVDs. This is somewhat unusual, because ...
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Never seen again, theatrical footage of Jaws 2?
I watched the theatrical release of Jaws 2 in my childhood. When years later I got the VHS version I was puzzled. I was sure I remembered a full body shot of Miss Amity (Tina Wilcox) at the beginning ...
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Why do movies sometimes come out on Wednesdays?
In the United States, movies are usually released on Fridays. This is because it's easier for people to make time to see them. This Thursday happens to be a holiday, so some movies are coming out on ...
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Can a movie that is banned in its home country be distributed in other countries?
If a movie is banned in its home country, can distributors in other countries legally publish it? For example can it be streamed on Netflix or distributed as DVDs elsewhere except the home country?
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Why is Bandit Queen banned in India?
Bandit Queen is an Indian biographical film based on dacoit Phoolan Devi. I know that she fought to get it banned in India. But what is the exact reason behind this? People generally like biographies ...
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Does the Blu-ray of Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) have the recreated "spider pit sequence"?
A spider pit scene was shot for the original 1933 King Kong, but was presumably cut from the film due to graphic content and is now considered as lost. Peter Jackson reshot the scene using ...
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How do movie channels get movies to be in HD if they've not been released on an HD source?
I just got a copy of the Twilight Time edition of Christine and the colors are a lot more vibrant than the other versions released on DVD. I believe Twilight Time was the first Blu-ray release of ...
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How does the internationalization of Forensic Files work?
The true crime docutainment series Forensic Files is broadcast on German TV under its original title Medical Detectives. The episodes (and thus the actual cases) are thereby the original American ones,...
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How do low-budget films go about movie ratings when they want to distribute globally?
Imagine a low-budget production that will be running on multiple festivals and cinemas around the world. After the theatrical tour they'll start home distribution through DVD/BD, VOD and SVOD (like ...
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What's allowed for editing for TV movies?
Movies on TV often state that they have been edited for "content", "to fit this screen", and to "run in the time allotted." Obviously, movie rights are held by the studio, so presumably they are the ...
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Do broadcasting authorities care about international offensive language?
I've noticed how a recent survey by Ofcom (the UK communications regulator) exploring attitudes with language seem to only concern about British swear words (offensive and vulgar language).
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What is the process for screening a movie today? [duplicate]
Perhaps a bit of an odd question, but I've always been intrigued by all aspects of the entertainment industry.
After the post-production process, what is the process for a typical screening of a ...
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Are there any definitive reasons why most online libraries won't stream movie to computers in 4k resolution?
Many modern computers with high resolution screens and good graphics cards are perfectly capable of displaying 4k content. In fact most recent computers are probably far more powerful than typical ...
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Profit of movies streamed on Netflix
Basically the movies that are streamed on Netflix aren't released in theaters, right?
So my question is - How do production companies make profit after streaming their movies on Netflix?
Of course, ...
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Why is Sooryavansham overly broadcast on Set Max / Sony Max?
Sooryavansham is quite a popular Bollywood film, but it got more of a cult role due to repeated telecast on Set Max (now known as Sony Max). It is even part of many memes/jokes:
But why is the ...
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PBS vs. BBC "Civilizations"
I recently purchased the BBC's Civilizations from iTunes and discovered to my Anglophilic shock that it has an American narrator. Does the original BBC version also have an American narrator, and if ...
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Where does poor video quality in some TV series originate?
When I watch re-releases of older TV series, some of them look amazingly fresh, while others have so bad video quality they're unwatchable. Some examples:
Freaks and Geeks: Supreme video quality. ...
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How do TV stations normally acquire third party content?
When a TV network is airing content, such as a documentary that they did not produce themselves, what is the normal acquisition procedure?
For example, does the station pay to license the documentary,...
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How is it decided whether or not a TV show will censor its swearing?
I was watching Deadpool the other night on FX. There's a lot of vulgar language in the movie. However, it was uncensored.
Some movies or shows on TV censor their profanity, while others don't. How ...
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How do streaming services earn money?
Netflix and Prime are (I think) the two leading competitors in streaming services. Both services are releasing original movies and shows which are exclusively available in their platform. But what's ...
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Why we don't use "TV" before "miniseries"?
Why we typically say "TV series", but we don't say "TV miniseries" (i.e., instead of this, we simply say "miniseries")?
Does it mean, that there are "theatrical" miniseries as well as "TV" miniseries?...
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What do film dates with Roman numerals after the year mean on IMDB?
Sometimes on IMDB I see films which are dated like this:
Sergio Corbucci:
Night Club ................. 1989/I
Robert Rodriguez:
The Black Mamba (Short) .... 2011/I
Two Scoops (Short) ......... 2013/...
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Is Amazon Videos a profitable business and how? [closed]
A great number of shows and series are available "freely" to subscribers of services like Amazon Prime, etc.
Among these shows, many seem to have been produced exclusively for this platform, and even ...
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What is it called when a DVD or Blu-Ray fragments titles to obfuscate the disk?
I read a primer on copy protection schemes, but it did not mention the scheme I find most commonly, which is to divide the movie into many fragmentary "titles" and make it difficult for a software to ...
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Why do TV Shows take mid-season breaks? [duplicate]
Serials like The Flash, Arrow, and Agents of SHIELD are now in a mid season break.
What does it mean?
Why do they take break in series like this?
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Why aren't UK cinema listings available more than a week in advance?
Even in the pre-internet age, I found it astonishing and annoying that in the UK local cinemas would post the week's - one week only - listings on a Thursday. So if you wanted to know what might be on ...
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Have the Tracey Ullman episodes of The Simpsons been officially released since their original air date?
Around 50 one-minute shorts were produced for The Tracey Ullman Show before The Simpsons got its own series. Only the first episode has been released as a DVD extra feature ("The Simpsons 138th ...
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Alternate Versions of Movies
I am wondering when I see alternate versions of films on, for example, HBO whether the "exhibitor" has complete freedom to show what they want or the producer offers various versions and the exhibitor ...
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