Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards

Re:Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at th... by schappim on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:06AM (#30827911)

Is it "just Apple's", not also Eagle Pictures' or Sun Distribution's?[1]

Interestingly Apple was sold the "worldwide" rights to Coda after rights were already partially sold to other territories all over the world. Apparently, Sun Distribution Group had the rights for Latin America and Eagle Pictures in Italy.

"Andrea Goretti, CEO of Italy’s Eagle Pictures, told Variety that he received a call from Pathé February 1 inquiring if the distributor would be willing to sell back Italian rights. "

Was Apple able to resolve this with their big vault of cash?

[1] https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/apple-coda-sundance-25-mil...

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Re:Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at th... by flanking_pajama on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:13AM (#30827952)

Unfortunately this is the confusing way of the world.

IIRC, Netflix is able to run a logo credit for themselves in Star Trek Discovery despite only having licensing rights, but it gives the impression that it's a Netflix show (that being said, their buying the rights to stream it is de facto a large swath of their production budget)

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Re:Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at th... by Apocryphon on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:26AM (#30828037)

I really wish that "American Animals" had become some sort of indie darling, just so the world will remember that MoviePass co-distributed a really good film. Maybe "Gotti" will become a midnight showing cult classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoviePass#MoviePass_Venture_fi...

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