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 | johnd | | Evening, poetry lovers. |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 298 |
| | Posted: | | | | Which is the most important definer of Country Of Origin, the company that has the artist input, or the one that provides the money. To me, it will always come down on the side of the artistic input, so the primary production company is WingNut, and the Country Of Origin is therefore New Zealand.
The money could have come from anywhere, and the film would still have looked the same. However, without WingNut, you would get a totally different interpretation of the film. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 181 |
| | Posted: | | | | How about for Avalon? I received a no vote in making the COO Poland. I do realize that it was produced by a Japanese company shot entirely in Poland in the Polish language with a mixed Japanese/Polish crew and a Polish cast. By all rights, it should have 2 COOs Japanese and Polish.
I guess my question is, is it wrong to list the COO as one or the other until there becomes an option to use both? |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have to admit it's a very strange thing to add the profiles, and does seem to be very restrictive in it's current form.
Is it possible for the entry to be changed so that as well as the default values, we can type in our own entries, a la the edition section, where we have a drop down list, but we also have the choice to type in our own?
That way, if we look at the profiles mentioned, kovacs01 can type in Japan/Poland for the COO, and the LOTR profiles can have New Zealand/USA typed in.
This would also solve the problem for countries that no longer exist.
What does everyone else think? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sounds good  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 7 |
| | Posted: | | | | How about the Bond Movies? Sure the production companies are mainly us-american, but hey, the world premiere is in London. Round about, these movies are quite british, aren' they? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 36 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting BeverlyHillsFan: Quote:
How about the Bond Movies? Sure the production companies are mainly us-american, but hey, the world premiere is in London. Round about, these movies are quite british, aren' they? The Bond-Movies were produced by EON Productions. EON is a subsidiary of Danjaq LCC. MGM and (in this case) Columbia are only the Release-Companies - but not (!) the Production Companies. EON Production is a british Company (Pinewood Studios), and therefore... ....Bond is british.  | | | | Ääärrrrrmin!! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lexxx: Quote:
EON Production is a british Company (Pinewood Studios), and therefore... ....Bond is british. Well said M  couldn't agree more | | |  |
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| Registered: April 7, 2007 | | Posts: 357 |
| | Posted: | | | | This just came up so can I clarify if we have Universal (US) PRESENTS a Working Title PRODUCTION (UK) and it was made and filmed in the UK am I safe in saying it's CoO is the UK? | | | | Last edited: by Graveworm |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Graveworm: Quote:
This just came up so can I clarify if we have Universal (US) PRESENTS a Working Title PRODUCTION (UK) and it was made and filmed in the UK am I safe in saying it's CoO is the UK? Yes. The Production company is (UK) whilst the Releasing studio is Universal (US). | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Graveworm: Quote:
This just came up so can I clarify if we have Universal (US) PRESENTS a Working Title PRODUCTION (UK) and it was made and filmed in the UK am I safe in saying it's CoO is the UK? Yes,more often than not, the word 'presents' means they did nothing but distribute the film...and maybe supplied some money. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | CoO
Instead of a slot how about a table like the subtitles. That way you can click trill the cows come home. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,117 |
| | Posted: | | | | Peter Jackson's "King King" is Wingnut; does that make it New Zealand?
er, "King KOng"! | | | | Last edited: by Doombear |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Doombear: Quote:
Peter Jackson's "King King" is Wingnut; does that make it New Zealand? Don't have "King King" in my collection  | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Doombear: Quote:
Peter Jackson's "King King" is Wingnut; does that make it New Zealand? Seriously though...YES. Peter Jackson is Kiwi. His production company WingNut Films is Kiwi. WingNut Films produced King Kong. Therefore CoO is New Zealand. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting Doombear:
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Peter Jackson's "King King" is Wingnut; does that make it New Zealand?
Seriously though...YES. Peter Jackson is Kiwi. His production company WingNut Films is Kiwi. WingNut Films produced King Kong. Therefore CoO is New Zealand. But still no one has the balls to contribute NZ for the three LOTR movies  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | that's because we were told they weren't new zealand (regardless of the fact that jackson shopped this to new line and not the other way around...don't start with us...) and the world will fall to bits. i have them as new zealand in my home database where it matters to me most... and now, i don't want to hear all the arguments against it. it's my home database... krik | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." | | | | Last edited: by Krikarian |
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