{"id":1408,"date":"2007-08-16T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/08\/yet-another-film-not-screened-for-critics\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:06:00","slug":"yet-another-film-not-screened-for-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/08\/yet-another-film-not-screened-for-critics.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another film not screened for critics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RsTa8CkjEAI\/AAAAAAAAAfs\/2cRYHFFprTw\/s1600-h\/lastlegion-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RsTa8CkjEAI\/AAAAAAAAAfs\/2cRYHFFprTw\/s400\/lastlegion-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nypost.com\/movies\/archives\/2007\/08\/invasion_of_the.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lou Lumenick<\/a> at the <i>New York Post<\/i> reports that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0462396\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Last Legion<\/a><\/i>, the latest flick to draw a link between actual Roman history and Arthurian legend, \u201cis <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/this-movie-was-not-screened-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">not being screened in advance for critics<\/a>\u201c.  But while that might be true in New York, it is not true here; I saw the film at a press screening in Vancouver last Friday, and my review will appear at CT Movies tomorrow.  The Weinstein Co. is one of the film\u2019s distributors, and I am reminded me of how at least one other film of theirs \u2014 <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/newsbites-conquistador-hilton-doogal.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doogal<\/a><\/i>, AKA <i>The Magic Roundabout<\/i> (2005) \u2014 was screened for the press in Canada but not in the United States.  Weinstein films are distributed by Alliance-Atlantis in Canada; perhaps the two companies have different policies, at least where European acquisitions like these are concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Lumenick at the New York Post reports that The Last Legion, the latest flick to draw a link between actual Roman history and Arthurian legend, \u201cis not being screened in advance for critics\u201c. But while that might be true in New York, it is not true here; I saw the film at a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yet another film not screened for critics?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lou Lumenick at the New York Post reports that The Last Legion, the latest flick to draw a link between actual Roman history and Arthurian legend, &quot;is not\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/08\/yet-another-film-not-screened-for-critics.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yet another film not screened for critics?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lou Lumenick at the New York Post reports that The Last Legion, the latest flick to draw a link between actual Roman history and Arthurian legend, &quot;is not\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/08\/yet-another-film-not-screened-for-critics.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-08-16T16:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RsTa8CkjEAI\/AAAAAAAAAfs\/2cRYHFFprTw\/s400\/lastlegion-a.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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