Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Ray Pride
Patricia Vidal

12/5/03
Miramax WILL Send Screeners... Width Of Distribution Unclear

Sony Statement On TRO Response

At Least One Major Now Planning Screener Distribution To HFPA...

The Screener Ban TRO Order

Statement By The Plaintffs
** Judge Issues A Temporary Restraining Order On The Screener Ban

Commentary By David Poland

____________

12/3/03
Screener Ban TRO Decision Pushed Again... To Friday

Harvey Weinstein's Screen Ban Deposition... All 20 Pages

____________

12/1/03
Three New Wailing Plaintiffs In Screener Ban Action
Harvey (The Co-Conspirator), Michael, Tom, David, James & Bingham All Subpoenaed
Now They HAVE To Talk... Even If They Want To Shut Up And Suffer Quietly!!!

Important New Evidence For The Screener Ban Suit
All Three Lion's Gate DVD Screeners For Films That "PIrates Don't Care About" Already Web Bait

____________

11/26/03
Decision On Screener Ban Temporary Restraining Order Delayed Until At Least December 3
Harvey Weinstein Named As Co-Conspirator!
Pull Quotes Of The Day From The Court:
"You mean these awards aren't given on the merits?"
"They suddenly got their gumption up two days before Thanksgiving?"
"I don't want any rabbits coming out of any hats on Wednesday."
Full Transcript Of The Screener Ban Hearing

Is Universal The First Major Pushing The Screener Ban... Just A Little Bit?

____________

11/25/03

Emergency Hearing On The Screener Ban Tomorrow at 10am

Harvey Weinstein Picks A Fight With Michael Eisner, Suggests Plans To Break The MPAA Ban (item 3)

The Screener Ban Lawsuit
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6

Production Companies File Suit Against MPAA On Screener Issue

____________

11/24/03

The Screener Ban Is Broken, Stepping Down At Paramount, And November's Boxoffice

Tim Gray On This Year's Oscar Dirt

Sony Classics Breaks Screener Ban By Using European Scam

____________

11/22/03

One New WB Tool To Solve The Screener Ban Fallout

____________

11/14/03

MPAA Responds - "There is nothing imminent. There is no current vacancy"

Valenti Out At Top Of Year?

____________

11/11/03

Ebert Comes Out Against Chicago Crix Awards Cancellation

How To Fight Piracy (2nd item)

____________

11/06/03

After The Jack Off, HFPA Deludes - "I got the hint that the door is not completely closed"

____________

11/05/03

Chicago Film Critics Suspend Awards Until Screener Ban Is Lifted, Or Broken - Hollywood Travel Agents Devastated

____________

10/31/03

Harvey Still On A Screener Mission

____________

10/30/03

Valenti On Why The Ban & The Academy Exception (Scroll Down, 1st Item)

____________

10/29/03

Elvis Mitchell's The Treatment Does Roundtable On The Screener Ban

Chicago Critics Still Considering Ways Of "Punishing" Major Studios For Screener Snub (4th Item)

"Everyone’s fiending for DVDs. Publicists and artists are bucking for prizes. They want personal acclaim–not lower ticket prices to attract more viewers, not improved theater conditions for maximum presentation, not even more serious film criticism. They want praise–which they cravenly think translates into money. And money, they feel, is all that criticism–and media attention–is worth."
Armond White's Must-Read Look At The Screener Debate, East-Coast Style

The Brits Weigh In: BAFTA Says Screener Ban Is "Catastrophe"
And None Of The Screeners Sent To Their Members Have Ever Been Pirated

____________

10/27/03

What Is The Screener Ban All About?
Look To Televsion And The MPAA Fight For "Broadcast Flag" Legislation

"Dependents" Chill... But Still More Whiners Whine

Valenti Says He Wants To Leave While He's On Top

____________

10/24/03

The MPAA Takes The Piracy Fight To The Classroom

____________

10/23/03

Waxman On The Screener Compromise

HFPA & Others Bitch...
"We are evaluating our options to have a decision reversed that we regard as unfair, completely arbitrary and an assault on the professional integrity of our members."
... And Hollywood Asks, "What Professional Integrity Is That?"

It's Official - Screeners For Academy
While The Hollywood Reporter Suggests That Other Awards Groups Might Stil Be In Play ("are not currently planning to offer screeners"), MCN Has Confirmed That The Academy Will Be The Only Group Receiving Screeners According To Valenti

National Society Of Film Critics Still Wants Screeners, But Won't Cancel Awards

____________

10/22/03

Holson Reports - "Other groups giving out awards — among them industry guilds, critics' associations and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which distributes the Golden Globes — would be approached to see if they would agree to similar terms."

Hollywood Hypocrisy Rears Its Inevitable Head - The End Of Oscar Screener Ban May Not Be Enough

____________

10/21/03

The Ban Is Over? Don't Make Me Laf...ca

Variety Reports That Awards Groups Who Will Not Be Getting Screeners Are Now Being Notified That The Academy Membership Will

____________

10/20/03
MCN Commentary: Why Does The Screener Ban Hurt Me?
by David Poland

While LAFCA Cancels, NYFCC ReconfirmsTheir Dates

Reuters' Tourtelotte Reports A Screener Compromise May Be Close

____________

10/18-19/03
The Full LAFCA Statement

Len Klady Comments

MCN First - LA Film Critics Decide NOT To Give Awards This Year Unless Screener Ban Is Overturned

MCN Commentary by David Poland

Reuters - LAFC Says No Screeners, No Awards

____________

10/17/03
Waxman On The Ban

A Fine Whine - Defending The Honor Of Film Critics

____________

10/16/03
Thursday's MPAA Screener Ban Meeting
Reuters / Variety / Hollywood Reporter

____________

10/15/03
Holson Continues To Fan The Anti-Screener Ban Flame, Reporting A Planned Thursday MPAA Meeting

The Six Films That Might Actually Be Affected By The Ban

____________

10/14/03
Promo Piracy (The Kind They Like)
MovieBox Posts ABC Preview Of The Incredibles

Today At 2:30 pm On NPR Los Angeles: The Screener Ban

Screener Ban Fight Losing Steam...
WGA Sends Letter, Actors (Not Writers) Get Headline

Seiler Looks At Who Loses In The Screener Ban

____________

10/13/03
Norman Jewison Giving Up?
“No one will back down now,” says Jewison. “I think we’ll be ignored.”
Newsweek On The Screener Ban

Anne Thompson Takes The "It's The Piracy, Stupid" Tack

Holson Slowly Backs Away From Screener Flip-Flop, Back to Party Rules

10/9/03
Holson On Yesterday's Screener Summit

Twin Cities Support The Ban

____________

10/7/03
Patrick Goldstein On Screener Parade

"I am totally against the end of screeners... and I am pretty upset about the way this was done."
Roger Friedman Gets A One-Sentence Quote From Sony's Howard Stringer... And Builds An Entire Rant On It Meanwhile, Sony Says There Is No Change In The Studio's Position Forthcoming

Ten Things To Keep In Mind While Bitching About The Ban

The Ban Update ...
Valenti Defends
DreamWorks Books Sand And Fog

AFMA Weighs In A Week After The Ban And Rumblings Of A Class Action Lawsuit

____________

10/6/03
NY Post's Lou Lumenick Calls For The Head Of Valenti And Pierson

All Worked Up & Nothing New To Report On The Screeners Rooney / Mohr and Kilday

A Quick Overview Of The First Week Of The Screener Ban

____________

10/4-5/03
The Most Extreme Hyperbole Yet
"The current MPAA screener ban (is) one of the most ill-advised and potentially destructive ideas to emerge from Hollywood since the blacklist."
** Wash Post On Ban - Nothing New
*** The Guardian - Online Screeners?
**** From The Paid Archives: Welkos Warns Of Screener Ban, 7/30/03
Reaction (5th Item)

____________

10/03/03
UIP Joins International Screener Ban

Piracy Avoidant Technologies?

Nat Soc Of Film Crix Joins in

Seachlight Pushes In America Early

Earlier- Fox Searchlight Launches The First Screener Reactive Stunt

____________

10/2/03
It's Confirmed... No Screeners Of Any Kind From MPAA Members

Andy Seiler's Look At Piracy
"Ken Jacobsen, director of the MPAA's Worldwide Anti-Piracy division, says the decision was based on 13 pirated DVDs that the MPAA discovered in Asia."

"How can you take this away from me? How can you do this?"

____________

10/1/03
The In-House Indies Are An "Internal Problem"

Valenti Says "The decision was not meant to be populist. It was meant to help the preservation of the motion picture industry and to control piracy."

Coming Together To Protest The Ban

____________

9/30/03
The Ban
Online Film Critics In Protest
Who Came Up With This Idea?
Matthews On Turning The Clock Back
The Changing Face Of The Race
Not Happy In The Niche
Members Think It's A Bad Idea
Even Exhibitors Aren't Happy
And Frank Darabont Weighs In

One Pill Makes You Smaller...
While The MPAA Tightens Up, NATO Pushes To Open Up Digital Cinema

Still Waiting Around For The Trades To Make It Official?
12:50p, Tuesday
9:29p, Monday
1:30p, Sun