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More Fanboys Follies
Mar. 25th, 2008 06:43 pmA blog called The Fantastic Adventures of Furious D has a pretty good piece about The Weinstein Company's mishandling of Fanboys:
The definition of madness is making the same mistake over and over again, hoping that you will have a different result. And here they are making the same mistake that they made distributing Asian martial arts films. They have a film called Fanboys. It tested huge with the core audience, and instead of releasing it, they are sitting on it while someone not connected with the making of the film re-edits it to eliminate a little something called The Plot because it displeases Harvey Weinstein.
Why would Harvey order the re-edit a film he's spent money to buy that tested well and had potential to be a small scale success if marketed properly?
The answer is basically contempt.
The Weinstein Company basically holds the audience in contempt. I think I could summarize Harvey Weinstein's mindset with the phrase: "If they knew what they liked they'd be me, and not the stupid audience!"
Instead of using the goodwill of the film's core audience, Weinstein has actively sought to alienate them, effectively calling them idiots, and daring them to boycott the film.
Read the rest here: http://dknowsall.blogspot.com/2008/03/hollywood-babble-on-on-71-days-of.html#links
TFN posted that The Weinstein Company will release both the original version of Fanboys with the original plot point and the re-edited version once the film is issued on DVD. It is still looking into "theatrical release options." Surrrre.
Wired.com has a long piece about Fanboys's screenwriter. There's a little bit about the controversy surrounding the film but all in all it's a dreams-come-true type of article:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-04/ff_fanboy?currentPage=1
Update: Here's an article from The Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3icc586a5d1a4f3c60803eb84167aec807?pn=1
The definition of madness is making the same mistake over and over again, hoping that you will have a different result. And here they are making the same mistake that they made distributing Asian martial arts films. They have a film called Fanboys. It tested huge with the core audience, and instead of releasing it, they are sitting on it while someone not connected with the making of the film re-edits it to eliminate a little something called The Plot because it displeases Harvey Weinstein.
Why would Harvey order the re-edit a film he's spent money to buy that tested well and had potential to be a small scale success if marketed properly?
The answer is basically contempt.
The Weinstein Company basically holds the audience in contempt. I think I could summarize Harvey Weinstein's mindset with the phrase: "If they knew what they liked they'd be me, and not the stupid audience!"
Instead of using the goodwill of the film's core audience, Weinstein has actively sought to alienate them, effectively calling them idiots, and daring them to boycott the film.
Read the rest here: http://dknowsall.blogspot.com/2008/03/hollywood-babble-on-on-71-days-of.html#links
TFN posted that The Weinstein Company will release both the original version of Fanboys with the original plot point and the re-edited version once the film is issued on DVD. It is still looking into "theatrical release options." Surrrre.
Wired.com has a long piece about Fanboys's screenwriter. There's a little bit about the controversy surrounding the film but all in all it's a dreams-come-true type of article:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-04/ff_fanboy?currentPage=1
Update: Here's an article from The Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3icc586a5d1a4f3c60803eb84167aec807?pn=1
