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This isn't so much a passion project, but it certainly is troubled. That new Dorothy of Oz movie. Yeah, it looks like total garbage. Well it is, and apparently the people behind it are too. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/legends-of-oz-investors-who-each-paid-100000-believe-hollywood-conspiracy-destroyed-film-99641.html Posted at the bottom of that article is this link: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-818-909-6800 . This leads to an 800-number reporting page where apparently this company was calling people as early as 2005 looking for investors for Dorothy of Oz. Dig further on that page and you'll come up with a whole can of worms. The guys behind it were a set of brothers, Ryan and Roland Carrol. They run a business called Alpine Pictures. They have also scammed people just like this at least five times prior. Here is their lovely webpage (warning: auto playing video): http://www.alpinepix.com/ You'll notice that the horrible auto playing video is in fact Dorothy of Oz (which is also listed on the front page), even though the film isn't produced by them. Instead, it's produced by a company called Summertime Entertainment. Summertime Entertainment is just Alpine Pictures with a new name to avoid their blacklisted history. On the web, it seems all high rated reviews of the film are from investors. You can see a few on IMDB, not sure about Metacritic. Edit: Rottentomatoes's comments are also filled with investors. You can also find a whooooole lot of investors on that 800-number page, along with an employee or two saying that it isn't a scam and the movie will be the biggest of 2012(sic). Also mixed into those comments are many, many, many C&D forms and other court papers detailing Alpine Picture's shady investment schemes. The IMDB earnings section is also very entertaining: Budget $70,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend $3,715,931 (USA) (11 May 2014) (2,575 Screens) Gross $3,715,931 (USA) (11 May 2014) Weekend Gross $3,715,931 (USA) (11 May 2014) (2,575 Screens) In other words, please don't go see this film. Lava Lamp Goddess fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 19, 2014 |
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