[1481] in Humor
HUMOR: Good thing it wasn't IBM...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed Jun 12 19:43:25 1996
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:38:18 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Subject: FW: Eraser ... self-titled last minute fiasco
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:13:05 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
D'oh!
From: Katy King <t-katyk@microsoft.com>
From: Yann Christensen
From: Brian Cost
From: Bill Joyce (VC++QA)
Subject: FW: Eraser ... self-titled last minute fiasco
<forwards erased>
> So really, if you were Warner Bros & you were making a movie in which
> the bad guys were a giant computer corporation, you'd think that
> someone would check that the name you gave said corporation wasn't
> already in use.....
>
> "Eraser" (premiering next Wednesday, all release prints made & ready
> to go, etc) features a nasty computer giant called Cyrix. Warner Bros
> have just been contacted by a computer giant called, yes, Cyrix, who
> have very expensive lawyers & no desire to be cast as the company who
> tried to kill Arnie.
>
> So Eraser now has around 100 or so shots of villains running around
> with a Cyrix logo on their hats, shirts, guns, computer screens,
> whatever, all of which have to be converted into Cypex or Cyrem or
> whatever by Saturday afternoon, latest. . .
> - - -hmmm, original sender ... uh ... erased]
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>Subject: (Fwd) Re: Warner Bros. - Mistake
>
>Yup, it is TRUE!! There are 1793 frames total (84 Shots). AND they
>have to do voice overs!!! My wonderful friends at Pactitle Digital
>are doing 1/2 of the shots. Boy, are they happy...
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
> A definate Doh!
>
> The script must have been written by MacHeds.
> I spoke with some of the people fixing this in post, it's a million $$
>error.
