Movie is an American invention. Asians didn't have much choice before so they have to watch Hollywood movies. Now India is producing ten times more movies a year than US.
You are combining two distinct things that happened to Jeremy Lin during his high school career: 1. In his junior year, Jeremy hurt himself playing a pick up game before Palo Alto played in the Northern California Division II playoff. Palo Alto would go on to lose in the NorCal Finals. 2. Because this happened, Jeremy Lin promised that his team would win the title in his senior year. As we all know now, Palo Alto upset Mater Dei in the finals. http://www.sfgate.com/preps/article/BOYS-PLAYER-OF-THE-YEAR-Jeremy-Lin-A-knack-for-2538272.php http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=7474995 To be fair, if your team is a state championship contender, it had better have a few good players.
There are lots of OT things I'd want to say but rather not here. However, america with a straight face is taking too much credit for what's essentially immoral business (or political) practices. Just found this link which you can research further if interested. http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/
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what kind? ive seen a lot of your posts and you sound like a self hating asian who sees racism everywhere like a black supremacist.
I don't think this movie is going anywhere. The guy is probably gonna want to make big bucks. But he isn't in China. Unless you are Jet Li Or Jackie Chang, most asian films will absoutely flop at the box office. I already predicted this will be a straight to DVD or Netflix type of thing. Should get the movie out while it's still fresh on people's mind. The longer they wait to release, the less success IMO.
Between this and your posting that "Jews Own Hollywood" video from the other thread, one has to wonder if you have the permission of your local Grand Wizard to be posting on the dangerous liberal minority-infested internetz.
How is it this film does not yet have a release date in, of all places NYC, where Linsanity originated? Smh
Most documentaries are rarely shown in theaters. The only widely released ones I can think of are from Michael Moore and maybe that Morgan Spurlock. DVD and Netflix are definitely the way to go with documentaries. Also I'm guessing they'll have iTunes distribution as well.
I think so far it's only being screened at Film Festivals, such as Sundance in Utah, CAAMFest in SF, SXSW in Austin. They would need an actual distribution deal to get released in non-Film Festival theaters. I don't know if they had a version ready to submit to NYC's Tribeca Film Festival ahead of the submission cutoff dates, or if they did submit but didn't get selected, or if they just focused on premiering it at Sundance and didn't submit it to Tribeca. Big name Festivals like Sundance and Tribeca typically have a long list of applicants and requires early submission deadlines. It's probably easier to just get an individual arrangement done or added to the schedule of smaller niche or regional festival like CAAMFest or SXSW, than it is to get a spot in Sundance or Tribeca. And it probably requires less foresight or pre-planning to meet early application deadlines. They could probably ride their Sundance success and buzz into a CAAMFest or SXSW screening, but it would be too late to meet Tribeca submission deadlines. I doubt CAAMFest, which seems to cater to a niche Asian American Bay Area audience, or South By Southwest (SXSW) -- nobody considers Texas a hotbed for independent films --- are going to draw the type of media scrutiny or glitz and glamor and opening night Hollywood Celebrities and multi-millionaire philanthropists on the red carpet that Sundance or Tribeca draws. Although it would be funny to see it air in Tribeca. I recall seeing a newsphoto of Knicks owner Jim Dolan on the red carpet to a Tribeca Film Festival screening. Would have seriously been ironic if he attended a Linsanity screening. To see it in NYC, you'll probably need to wait for a distribution deal. No idea if that means airing in limited release in small art-house theaters first, or if it goes straight to DVD, or broadcast or what not.
I think a distinction needs to be made between wide release and limited release. I agree that this film probably won't see wide release. But most independent films, not just documentaries, do not get wide release. What they can get is limited release, especially in a network of small arthouse theaters and not the large mainstream theaters. There's a network of small art-house theaters that cater to a specialty audience. Think of the theaters like the ones that mostly air foreign language subtitled films from Europe or something, or that air old black and white classics. There have been many independent documentaries that have reached the national consciousness with or without wide release. Fahrenheit 911, Super-Size Me, March of the Penguins, even Bowling for Columbine, etc. And as noted by industry wonks and film critics, there's enough buzz for the film at Sundance to justify more than just DVD/Netflix. From one of the early reviews at http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-prin...ity-spreads-to-park-city-with-some-candidness : If they're still talking to several entities, then they're surely negotiating for the largest deal possible to ensure the most people see it as possible. That means moving down the revenue release foodchain. Trying for a wide release first. If that fails, try for a limited release. If that fails, try for an on-demand deal on premium cable channels, maybe. And work down the foodchain from there. I'm sure someone will want to at least pick up the rights in order to do a theater release in Taiwan or something. That gives them some leverage to negotiate for a wider deal and hold out for more than netflix/DVD's, maybe.
It's a documentary. Most documentaries don't do well in box office. Did anyone actually see the Lebron James movie? And he's a black American....
You need to drop this racism thing in this forum. You want to discuss your whacko race-related theories? Go to the right forum for it, its called Debate and Discussion, a subforum of the Hangout. I see a bunch more race related posts from yall in here, negs and banning sure to follow.
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Unless it has cars/hot bod/ martial arts and Vin Diesel and it'll be the most successful movie of a franchise, Fast Five?
