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New York Judge Blocks Motion Picture Group's Ban on Free Promotional Movies.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2003
By Robert Gearty, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 6--In this ending, the big studios lost to the little guys.
A Manhattan judge yesterday blocked the Motion Picture Association of America from carrying out a ban on free promotional movies.
Small-budget filmmakers sued the MPAA over the "screener" ban, saying it would hurt their chances for Oscar glory.
The MPAA said it imposed the ban for the year-end awards season to combat piracy.
"Justice prevailed," said Theodore Hope, the 41-year-old producer of "21 Grams," the much-praised indie flick starring Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro. "Independent films could have been seriously hurt by this."
Though the MPAA said it would appeal the...
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