Miscellaneous Movie Musings - Page 349

Alex · 07-07-2008, 01:18 PM

I imagine most of them are simply investment production companies or owned access to some important piece of the film's package. One of the ways the major studios hedge there bets is to get other people to pay for making them and the studios are involved more as distributors than creators. And to get people involved you give producer credits.

Forward Pass is Michael Mann's production company; there contribution might actually have involved production work.
I believe Relatively Media is just a financing production company so there contribution would be money.
Overbrook is Will Smith's production company; their contribution was Will Smith.
Weed Road Pictures is Akiva Goldsman's production company.

Don't know about the others.

innerSpaceman · 07-07-2008, 03:09 PM

I keep wanting to develop a computer based show system for my DVDs that will automatically skip the trailers, the menu, the THX logo ... and, almost more important, skip all but one of the studio/production company logos that introduce a film.

SzczerbiakManiac · 07-07-2008, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I keep wanting to develop a computer based show system for my DVDs that will automatically skip the trailers, the menu, the THX logo ... and, almost more important, skip all but one of the studio/production company logos that introduce a film.

I would buy a copy of that software!

Gemini Cricket · 07-09-2008, 07:37 PM

I'm watching the Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice again. Judi Dench is such a b!tch in this one. I loooove her.

Gemini Cricket · 07-09-2008, 07:54 PM

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I'm watching the Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice again. Judi Dench is such a b!tch in this one. I loooove her.

Forgive me, but I'm not done gushing. I love this movie. The rain scene, I looooove love love the "end my agony" rain scene.
<3 <3 <3

BarTopDancer · 07-07-2008, 03:10 PM

I finally saw Almost Famous. Loved it.

innerSpaceman · 07-09-2008, 11:20 PM

I had a dream with Judi Dench in it last night, and I woke up all thinking of YOU, G.C.

Gemini Cricket · 07-10-2008, 03:43 PM

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I had a dream with Judi Dench in it last night, and I woke up all thinking of YOU, G.C.

How sweet! And, by the way, to quote Dame Judi: I've been plucked since we last met.

Oofta! How could I have not watched the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice? I watched bits and pieces, but hadn't sat through it. It's wonderful! Is everyone in the Bonham-Carter family gorgeous? And the Mr. Collins in this version is just... ewww!

Snowflake · 07-10-2008, 04:00 PM

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How sweet! And, by the way, to quote Dame Judi: I've been plucked since we last met.

Oofta! How could I have not watched the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice? I watched bits and pieces, but hadn't sat through it. It's wonderful! Is everyone in the Bonham-Carter family gorgeous? And the Mr. Collins in this version is just... ewww!

Oh, but Mr. Collins needs to be Ew! (the actor portraying him was also a very wonderful Cicero in the HBO series Rome)

I love this version of P&P (and I do love the old MGM, too, with Greer Garson and the divine Mary Boland as Mother Bennett, "totering on the brink!")

Gemini Cricket · 07-10-2008, 11:02 PM

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Oh, but Mr. Collins needs to be Ew! (the actor portraying him was also a very wonderful Cicero in the HBO series Rome)

I love this version of P&P (and I do love the old MGM, too, with Greer Garson and the divine Mary Boland as Mother Bennett, "totering on the brink!")

Lady Catherine (Katherine?) is not nearly as bitchy in the 1995 version as she is in the 2005 version. But I daresay that Judi did a wonderful wonderful job.

07-07-2008, 01:18 PM	#1
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I imagine most of them are simply investment production companies or owned access to some important piece of the film's package. One of the ways the major studios hedge there bets is to get other people to pay for making them and the studios are involved more as distributors than creators. And to get people involved you give producer credits. Forward Pass is Michael Mann's production company; there contribution might actually have involved production work. I believe Relatively Media is just a financing production company so there contribution would be money. Overbrook is Will Smith's production company; their contribution was Will Smith. Weed Road Pictures is Akiva Goldsman's production company. Don't know about the others.
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