Little Miss Paranoia
p2p news / p2pnet: “With about 3,000 film buffs carrying lawn chairs and blankets into the evening showings, there’s no sure way for security officers to search everyone and everything. What’s more, the venue is so sprawling that guards can’t really use night-vision goggles to police the audience and monitor any illegal videotaping or illicit use of camera phones.”
Say what? Yup. Its Hollywood’s latest movie horror show.
The intro refers to the recent Maui Film Festival at the Celestial Cinema in Hawaii. It’s outdoors and patrons see films projected on a giant screen under a star-filled sky, says The Honolulu Advertiser —— the perfect place to watch a comedy such as Little Miss Sunshine.
Not. Because Fox Searchlight, “asked that ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ be moved out of a prominent Saturday night showing at the Celestial Cinema and into a smaller indoor venue, where it was seen by only a handful of people,” says the story.
And that’s because Hollywood, in its continuing self-induced paranoia, has, “scoured the globe in search of film thieves, finding them in Los Angeles alleys and Chinese tenements” and although its MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) admits it hasn’t found anything naughty going on at a film festival, “studios nevertheless have been clamping down on these nearly weekly events, sometimes going so far as to require that programmers watch films submitted for festival consideration with a security guard always nearby”.
“For a Celestial Cinema screening of Sony’s ‘Monster House,’ the festival confiscated the cell phones of about 100 attendees,” says The Honolulu Advertiser, adding:
“Nevertheless, dozens of festival-goers could be seen using cell phones before the start of the movie. There were no reported piracy incidents.”
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Also See:
The Honolulu Advertiser – Studios’ piracy fears haunt film festivals, July 9, 2006
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July 11th, 2006 at 12:51 am
Next this in the selfinduced selfdistruction cycle of averice. I don’t even go or rent movies anymore to speak of as the high cost and high hassel factor quotient really precludes easy enjoyment. No wonder drive-ins died.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
sure using those little cell device thingys, we could end up with it getting stuck in the tubes of the internet
Signed
Sen.Stevens
November 28th, 2006 at 4:24 pm