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BarnabusBlackoak
10-21-2007, 10:05 AM
Has anyone heard of this?

http://www.nldfilm.com/

http://www.createspace.com/Store/ShowEStore.jsp?id=221615


The Benefit Project

This project is being organized to literally-pay-tribute to the people that are responsible for the creation of movies like NOTLD that have fallen into the public domain or are considered "orphan films."

The Benefit Project is a media-distribution organization (in development) that has a benevolent agenda, rather than a commercial one.

You may have heard about BMI, the Harry Fox Agency and the Sound Exchange for musicians...but this is the first organization like this for filmmakers!

Benefit for the Living Dead

When you buy a Benefit for the Living Dead DVD or a product hotlinked with a Internet stream/download this generates royalties for the Benefit Project. This is a fund-in-the making that is dedicated to the icons of filmmaking that you love.

This landmark movie serves a higher purpose. The Benefit for the Living Dead will financially-feed the organization's fund, which will administer royalites and/or equity to the surviving filmmakers who elect to participate.

It's a good cause and good entertainment. We hope you take a moment to check it out - you'll find the pacing of the story is revised and faster, and there is some new footage too. Respected sources like Diabolical Dominion and Creature Corner liked Dean Lachiusa's contemporary editing, so we're sure you'll appreciate it too.

The Blind Dead
10-22-2007, 01:33 AM
TRANSLATION: How much can you give?

evilzombie20
10-22-2007, 01:52 AM
I actually really liked the SURVIVOR'S CUT of the film, I tried to buy it years ago but never got a copy. Glad I can finally go out and pick one up and hopefully it's going to a good cause.

The Blind Dead
10-22-2007, 01:59 AM
I don't see how it could. From what I read on the front page they plan to release public domain titles with some "creative editing" and that, in my opinion, sounds like they're no different from Hollywood producers that believe they can improve "the classics" with a re-imagining.

Why not just distirbute these PD films with extra content? Why edit them for "contemporary audiences?" That's idiotic. They claim these changes will also be made in order to claim new copyrights on these films and in turn will allow them to offer "copyright-equity" to the original surviving creators but there's no mention of percentages.

In my opinion this just sounds like somebody tampering with forgotten, negelected vintage cinema in order to flex their editing muscle. If they really cared about these films they'd simply offer them in their original PD formats but with remastering and exclusive extras.