Another seller of edited movies has decided to shut their doors and go out of business.  In this case, it was online seller of DVDs named CleanplayDVDS.

As the receipts from the box office come rolling in this summer, family oriented movies, or those films that have no need to have the profanity, vulgarity, nudity, and explicit  violence in order to tell an engaging story are predicted to be big winners again.
R Rated Movies Receive Critical Acclaim

Of course, critical acclaim can also effect box office receipts and the profitability of a movie, and several R rated films scored big gains by being very well reviewed and getting attention in the awards ceremonies, including the Golden Globes and, of course, the Oscars.

Nominations for best picture for 2010 included R rated movies, such as, The Fighter, Black Swan, and the eventual winner The King’s Speech.  This comes behind last year’s surprise winner Hurt Locker…. Another R-Rated Film.

Edited Movies get a Nod from the Studios

After well publicized roes between edited movie sellers and the directors guild, the studios have taken a big step towards a more moderate, less political, and more capitalistic approach — They decided to release the Academy Award winner, The King’s Speech, in edited form alongside the original version.

Edited versions of the film played in some theaters and it is yet to be verified, but Lion’s Gate will reportedly be releasing an edited version of the DVD.  This is important, because, the movie, while it has interesting historical ramifications would be difficult to show in many school settings due to parental sensitivity over profanity which is on pretty bald display in one scene in particular where the would-be King is asked to use profanity to break out of his stuttering habit by his speech therapist.

Whether or not this effects the availability of other titles in edited formats remains to be seen.

It seems as if one of the last remaining sellers of edited movies is shutting their doors soon. I was told this during a private conversation so I won’t mention the company by name. However, any existing customers of theirs should be getting the news soon as the company attempts to wind down any existing inventory they still have on their shelves and shutter their doors for good.

The advent of clearplay, the company who sells subscription services and ‘dongle’ usb devices for downloading the most recent dvd edits and letting you play ‘regular’ (unedited) dvds on your dvd player and stream the movies while they are ‘edited’ or ‘altered’ in real time, has made this irrelevant for some.

However, there is still a fervent demand by some for good, quality, clean family entertainment.

The market, for artistic, or business reasons is not being served adequately, and it will be interesting to see if the market is just not big enough for Hollywood to cater to and if someone else will step in and attempt to fill the void left by the latest market exit.

For those that are uninitiated, dofollow refers to the supposed passing of google pagerank between pages that link to one another.

Some wiley search engine marketers got wise to the fact that they could enhance their stature by posting inane and vacuous comments on others’ blogs and it go so bad that by default most of the most popular blogging software has gone to nofollow by default — meaning they pass no page rank.

i was reading this blog here Do Follow List and decided that i may try to do the same thing with my own edited movie blog.

The Hangover won the comedic-film prize, while Up and The Cove continued their sweeps of the animated and documentary guild awards.

Roman Polanski’s political thriller, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor, was almost not completed due to Polanski’s arrest.

He was detained in Europe last year while “The Ghost Writer” was in post production. Polanski edited the movie from his jail cell, according to the movie’s stars.

“He would be in his nine-foot by four-foot cell, edit the movie and give it to the warden. The warden would give it to his lawyer [who would] then give it to the editor,” Brosnan told CNN.

In a well publicized case, Polanski was arrested in September for an outstanding U.S. arrest warrant dating back to 1978.

He plead guilty to a single count of having unlawful sex with a minor. He left and expatriated from the US before the sentence was handed down from the court.

The director, under arrest in Switzerland is fighting extradition and was not able to attend the movie’s premiere in Germany.

The producers were very worried that another director would have to be brought in post-production to finish the movie editing

Brosnan’s character in the film is very similar to Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who faced a grilling at a public inquiry earlier this year over his controversial decision to send UK troops to Iraq in 2003.

Polanski’s work has included “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown.” In 2003 he won a best director Oscar for “The Pianist,” collected on his behalf by Harrison Ford.

While the completed movie has gotten good reviews, Polanski was still looking to improve thesound for the film in the final edit.

The American Cinema Editors (ACE) breaks up their nominations into several categories.

For Feature Editing Honors (a full length feature film) the nominees are:

The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air
District 9
Star Trek, and
of course, Avatar.

There were some really great editing on several of those films but it would be hard to believe that any movie other than Avatar would win this award since it’s been a booming commercial success — the most successful box office to date, without factoring in inflation. And, one of the most dramatic and interesting parts of the feature is the way the animation and live action is sewn together to create a seamless and enjoyable experience for the viewer and in my opinion one of the best edited movies of all time.

For animation editing the nominees include:

Coraline and Mr. Fox
Up

and for a Musical or Comedy editing there is:

Julie and Julia
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
500 Days of Summer, and
A Serious Man

For documentary film makers the list of finalists for the award include:

The Cove
Food Inc., and Michael Jackson’s documentary following his preparations for the concert that would never be,
This is It.

Congratulations to all of the nominees (it’s an honor just to be nominated ) and good luck. Awards season is just getting underway and a win here could propel the winner onto the red carpet of the academy awards….not that anyone cares about awards!

Edited Inglourious Basterds
Director Quentin Tarantino delivers an impactful, grandiose version of WWII, in a revenge/fantasy of Jewish soldiers taking out hits on German troops during the war. Brad Pitt stars as the commander of a lethal team of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds.” Diane Kruger is German actress/undercover agent who helps them. Christoph Waltz is Col. Hans Landa, whose Nazi exploits have earned him the nickname “Jew Hunter.” And Melanie Laurent is a theater operator who has revenge plans of her own. Fates collides under a cinema marquee, where a fiery scheme could take down the leaders of the Third Reich once and for all.

Special Features:

Extended & Alternate Scenes

Nation’s Pride

Roundtable Discussion with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and film historian/critic Elvis Mitchell

The Making of Nation’s Pride

The Original Inglorious Bastards – A Salute

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Edited Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
A man’s new invention destroys the town  square by accident and shoots up towards the clouds.  At first he thinks his career as an inventor is over, but something incredible transpires as cheeseburgers rain down from above.

His invention is a success.  But the townsfolk get greedy and ask for more.  His invention starts to malfunction and spaghetti tornadoes and giant meatballs  threaten the planet.  It is up to the inventor, with assistance from his monkey assistant and weather girl to stop the out of control machine before it covers the globe in huge meatballs.

Special Features:

Directors’ Commentary

A Recipe for Success: The Making of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Key Ingredients: The Voices of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Flint’s Food Fight Game

Extended Scenes

More Details:

Movie Info

Trailers & Clips

DVD Info

User Reviews

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