Change of Plan
At 8:23 am this morning I posted a story about Ed Harris's Appaloosa not (at the time) having any scheduled critics screening in Portland and Arizona, according to info from area critics. I updated it a few hours later after hearing from the Arizona Daily Star's Phil Villarreal that a press screening in his area had been suddenly set up today.
And then at 4:33 pm this afternoon, an e-mail was sent to Portland-area critics by Kim Pasion of Terry Hines & Associates, the local rep for Warner Bros.
"Hi All!," it began. "Please forgive me for the short notice. I misunderstood my directives and just realized that I need to press screen Appaloosa for you all! Uh, I know...I suck! I have set a screening next Thursday at noon. Please let me know if you can attend. Thanks!"
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 19, 2008 at 7:45 PM
comment #1
JaggedUnderpants
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Posted by JaggedUnderpants
at September 20, 2008 1:18 AM
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shawn
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For the record, *I* don't think Kim sucks. This was clearly a bigger issue than just Portland and Seattle, and it's menschy of her to offer to take the heat in her screening invitation.
The problem is the studios making so many movies and not standing behind them when it comes to press time.
I remember when "The Avengers" was released without press screenings and it was unusual enough to merit stories about the fact in USA Today and other outlets. Now it happens virtually every week.
The tension at the newspaper comes from deciding whether we have the room/inclination to run a wire service review the day after one of these pictures opens, or whether we play the game of 'if we can't see it, we won't acknowledge it' and thus spite our readership.
But Kim is hardly the guilty party here: just the last person in a chain leading from the studio to the newspapers. As it happens, she's absolutely fine to deal with, and I'm sorry she was in the middle of this mess.
Posted by shawn
at September 20, 2008 7:20 AM
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