By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Implications Of The Academy Rule Changes By David Poland
The Academy release on the doc rules changes is not clear, but it appears that the Branch has widened the field for streamers.
— David Poland (@DavidPoland) April 24, 2018
I stupidly glossed over the mailing house piece of today’s Academy announcement because I thought it was what we knew was coming. But taking control of screening invites and the like is another thing altogether. And could end up being an overreach that costs Dawn Hudson her job.
— David Poland (@DavidPoland) April 25, 2018
My issue with The Academy taking control of all invites is not so much the overreach but the simple issue of competence. The Academy is not set up to be doing the job that 25-35 people currently do. Are they going to hire a booking crew?
— David Poland (@DavidPoland) April 25, 2018
I was all for consolidating mailings. Made sense. But booking screenings & events is nuts. They better have a plan for monitoring/controlling the trades, because that will become the new scam pretty quickly. The Academy under Dawn has refused to control things. Now, overreaching
— David Poland (@DavidPoland) April 25, 2018
It’s a weird choice to put businesses (like Peggy Seigel’s) in jeopardy and to make the process more complicated for both members and studios. Also, the bias against Phase 2 screenings is idiotic. Everything should lean more to the more narrowly defined Phase 2.
— David Poland (@DavidPoland) April 25, 2018
If I were king, I would severely limit the Phase One dog & pony show and make it much more on the movies, then let personalities run free in Phase 2.
— David Poland (@DavidPoland) April 25, 2018
Are the Twitter blog streams because DP also finds his own websites design too antiquated to conveniently use from a mobile device?
It’s Ray trying something out. And no, it has nothing to do with the website being antiquated. Firstly, it isn’t antiquated. It just doesn’t look like every f-ing site out there with long pages of stuff that floats away into the ether like so much flotsam. Secondly, it is pretty easy to use from any mobile device. Thirdly, I just am not writing in depth here now. Ray was being generous with me and trying to initiate conversation… the only one that you (or anyone else) took up was to be a smartass.