He made “JFK”, which was a really important movie, but I don’t think we can look up to people on the “A” list in Hollywood – oh, by the way, he’s not on the “A” list anymore because “A” list means you make a lot of money for the studios – and all of his recent movies have tanked, including “WTC”.
He’s not a big player in Hollywood anymore.
There’s just nothing happening. People cannot deal with the issue of 9/11.
You have to follow the line of the media which was very impressed with “United 93”, which was a complete fabrication, a completely unsubstantiated fabrication based on the fantasy that was created by the government.
Bonanno: “United 93” served as a wonderful reinforcement, though, didn’t it?
Kupsc: Yes, and this is why I’m saying I would not wish to push “The Reflecting Pool” into that realm.
It has no chance of being picked up by a major studio.
Another problem with distribution, if you don’t do it yourself, is the same problem that happened with “Loose Change”, the final cut, which was the third edition when they were actually bought by Mark Cuban, an extremely rich person who decided to release it theatrically. For no apparent reason, he pulled the plug, leaving those guys hanging, therefore postponing the movie for another 7 or 8 months.
What happens sometimes, when a distributor comes in, and you sign your rights off to that person for a number of years, you may never, ever see that movie play anywhere and you can’t do anything about it. They can shelve it. They can do anything they want with it.
It’s a very risky proposition, if you have a project like “The Reflecting Pool”, to approach a legitimate Hollywood distributor and say, “Here, here’s my movie. Give me $200,000, I’ll shut up and you can do whatever you want with it.”
Of course I could use $200,000. I could use $200.00, but it’s not about money.
We want this to be heard and seen and I believe that, if such a distributor would pick us up, they would shelve this movie. They would never, ever have it shown as long as they’d hold on to the rights, which I’m not about to relinquish.
We’re also working right now on making the movie available as a download.
I’m flying to Poland in three weeks to do a screening at the biggest Polish film festival and Joseph Culp is taking the movie to Norway to their film festival. We’re opening in New Zealand in October.
All this is done based on our personal efforts and contacts.
As an independent movie makes for very little money, we’ve been extremely successful.
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