As a sidebar to this topic, (since I’d like to do something like this myself, but with classics — from GWTW to Airplane), can anyone comment on the practicality of purchasing the prints and how one would go about paying the exhibition rights fees exclusive of renting the prints?
I plan to rotate the titles on a regular basis, and it seems like it would be easier to just buy them from the collector circuit than to run the risk that Airplane will suddenly become popular again and the only copy in the country will be somewhere else. :–)
cjarret: what part of “I’m perfectly willing to pay them” is it that no one ever seems to get?
“They won’t do it that way” would be an acceptable answer, but no one ever seems to couch it in those terms, as you haven’t.
> You have to use the distributors as your source for film as they hold the copyrights and have the prints.
No, that’s not the reason I would have to do it that way. “Because they say so” is. :–}
As a sidebar to this topic, (since I’d like to do something like this myself, but with classics — from GWTW to Airplane), can anyone comment on the practicality of purchasing the prints and how one would go about paying the exhibition rights fees exclusive of renting the prints?
I plan to rotate the titles on a regular basis, and it seems like it would be easier to just buy them from the collector circuit than to run the risk that Airplane will suddenly become popular again and the only copy in the country will be somewhere else. :–)