The CEO of Fox, Tom Rothman, has spoken to MTV about the recent trailer leak. He said he was disappointed that it had leaked.
On the red carpet of the Gotham Independent Film Awards, Rothman spoke with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz about his disappointment with the leaked trailer. “I heard some of it leaked, which wasn’t so good,” he said.
For such a drawn-out buildup, the release of the bootleg trailer marked a point of anticlimax. To Rothman, the leak was nothing short of a severe injustice. “That’s not fair. It’s heartbreakingly unfair, because … the quality of the visuals is as spectacularly beautiful, shot in 3-D compositionally the way only a master could do it,” Rothman said. “For some early, early, early, early half-baked, half-assed test to leak, it’s so unfair.”
The Fox exec did, however, guarantee that the film will make a splash once it sees a proper release. “I will promise you this: When that material is ready and it comes out, you should go see it in 3-D on a screen. It will deliver.”
He goes on to say the movie is 95% unto itself while fans will spot the strands of the Alien DNA. Thanks to Darkoo for the news.
It's a rare possibility.
Aye, I know what you mean. Although my favourite moment for rewind-a-thons came via the snake lady in Blade Runner. My Dad's VHS copy always got fuzzy during her shower scene from constant (mis)use!
...Still, a Ridley Scott film all the same.
In the case of AVP:R it shouldve been given a certification all of its own 'UR' (Universal Restriction) guaranteeing that absolutely no-one was allowed to see it due to it being so God awful !
(You rewound the crotch shot in Alien ?......I never did that..........and I thought was a perv !!
The more I think about film ratings, the more ridiculous they seem. I don't think any child's mind got corrupted by a film watched in a movie theatre with their parents. If that kind of thing's gonna happen, it's gonna happen at home, in a dark basement while the folks aren't paying attention. Like, back in the day, how many times did some of you guys rewind Ripley's 'crotch shot' in Alien on home video? Were you even 13 years old at the time? (not saying we're all psychos, but you see what I mean.
I guess I'm rambling, but the whole ratings thing just kinda seems like the studios paying lip service to 'moral decency'. 'Cause we all know that once those films hit the shelves and the airwaves, any kid has carte-blanche to watch 'em if his/her parents aren't looking.
As long as I get Ridley's cut in the end, I'm happy.
Movies are an industry. This isn't a low budget art film. It's an extremely expensive blockbuster that needs to make a lot of money to break even. And making it R would cut out a large demographic and probably take too big a risk.
Maybe it would be a marketing strategy to make a blockbuster for adults and I'd very happy and very surprised if Fox were the ones to take that first step. But it's not going to happen.
They are ultimately a large business that make large amounts of money from entertainment in which there is very little pride in the work. If some piece of shit romcom makes a billion in the box office nobody is going care about the merits of the work, just the money that's rolling in.
On a larger note, the american rating's system is ridiculous. I don't see why they can't just make another rating in between PG13 and R. In Ireland they have PG, 12's, 15's, 16's, 18's, which seems sensible to me. It gives greater freedom to the rating's board and film maker.
But it can prove demand for Director's Cut (R) for BD release
It's sad if it is. Where do I go for the petition thing?
I don't believe I'm misinformed at all. You'll note that I was careful to use the word "mostly". One thing that's absolutely necessary for such a petition to have an affect in this case is a vast number of signatures, which I doubt such a cause will attract.
The examples of successful petitions you provided are telling; governors, cancelled television series, policies in corporations. These are all "slightly" more far reaching and impacting than the rating of a movie.
It's only us hardcore fans who are bothered enough to actually take the time to sign and in the grand scheme of things we're a minority. 20th Century Fox isn't going to lower the number of potential audience members and therefore revenue for a 200 million dollar movie, simply to pander to the minority.
Petitions almost never get results with large corporations I'm afraid but they are a way to have your opinion heard, so we may as well start one.
I am definetly for it ;]
Anderson has an excelent taste for women. Not for Cinema...
Still, I'm sure he can mop those tears up with his 100 dollar bills.
Tom Rothman seems evil.
I hope, Fox men have got their lesson with A^3 and other closely supervised flicks to give R. Scott more freedom fot directing Prometheus.
And now I'm realy getting scared by the phrase:
in a sense that sometimes their "profound idea" is determined not by its quality, but by the quantity of times it's voiced over on screen. My other hope is that Scott would find the more refined way to transfer that profound concept to the viewer, whatever would it be. 200 min is a whole lot of a screen time!
Amen to that. Look how they screwed over giger and fincher in alien3 (still love the movie though). Not even starting about avp and avp-r. If they gave Anderson a little bit more money and freedom (i know a lot of people won't agree with me on this) it could've been a lot better.
And AVATAR rock.
Even if i clearly prefer the original treatment wich was more adult.
Avatar although crappy in a few aspects, was damn good 3D.
All the leaked trailer has done to Fox is give them an excuse to openly publicise the fact you will be able to see the trailer in 3D during a movie you wouldn't normally pay for. To be honest with the prices of 3D movies being what they are they will have to be showing it before something pretty special before I see it... I can wait.
Me either!
I don´t find anything really interesting in all i have seen so far from The Darkest Hour....
Thats the prove that you don´t need any CEO for ruining a movie. Cameron ruined Avatar all by himself...(Well, in fact, there is nothing to ruin in AVATAR as its a big load of shit whatever you do with it)
I think that Fox won´t dare f**k with Riddley, and Riddley won´t let anyone f**k with him.
Hugo was not children movie, It was just marketed that way.
I'm alot more concerned with FOX ruining this that Scott.
very dark edgy look to the sets and have logan lose his memory as a result of the weapon x process of the adimantium bonding to his skeleton. Gavin was away from set for a few days in which Rothman went in and had all the sets painted brighter
because he throught they were too dark for a family film, then Rothman demanded reshoots, so logan loses his memory through being shot by the adamantium bullet by Stryker. Hood even admitted to the creative differences between himself and Rothman, don't get me wrong it dosen't make the film any better than the slating it got, but it shows how Rothman sticks his oar in. He seems to leave James Cameron alone, let's hope it's the same with Scott. Rothman can be a pain when he wants.
He is a CEO of FOX. That´s his job. Sure he can ruin lot´s of movies, but I´m not so sure that he can ruin whatever Riddley want to do. I mean, If riddley don´t want, this guy its not going to ruin anything, what i am more afraid is that Riddley ruins it by himself....
he insisted was a pg-13 (uncut for dvd with cg blood)then we had A V P R and we know how it virtually buried the franchise. Now we have prometheus, the leaked trailer looks amazing especially the jockey ship is so epic in scale, all i'm saying is be cautious with Tom Rothman he seems to be more about the money than caring about the franchise by allowing subpar films to be made. That's part of the reason why i'm being very careful not to be over enthusiastic about prometheus, and believe me i'm a die hard alien fan , have all the boxset collections, novels (loved steel egg and original sin was good and omnibus comics theories of the space jockeys) the games a v p2 on the pc and a v p 2010 console game. I just don't really much enthusiam for Tom Rothman or Fox at the moment. i just hope prometheus delivers.
We may get one that combines both trailers - making it super-dooper-awesome!