BOLT screening cancelled due to licensing issues
Tracy Bittner, who with her husband John has coordinated the Movies at the Ritz events, reported today that tonight's screening of BOLT at the park has been cancelled and future events are in danger due to licensing issues.
If it is held on their campus then the license for many movies would be covered by their Church Video License (CVLI). See this site for details... http://www.cvli.com/
CVLI has different levels of licenses but the "Total Producer Package" covers movies from studios such as Dreamworks, Walt Disney, MGM, Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros., Touchstone, etc. According to the CVLI web site a church the size of First Baptist or First United Methodist would pay $280 per year (not event) for the license.
A bonus for the hosting churches would be having a practical way to serve the families of Barnesville and giving local families a night together. I know our family was looking forward to going tonight. Now I have to scramble to come up with Plan B!
Seems like they would push to play movies with their religion incorporated in it.
Like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
C.S. Lewis was an adult convert to Christianity and had previously authored some works on Christian apologetics and fiction with Christian themes. However, he did not originally intend to incorporate Christian theological concepts into his Narnia stories. As he wrote in Of Other Worlds:
Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about child psychology and decided what age group I’d write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn’t write in that way. It all began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasn't anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord.
Lewis is also considered an expert on the subject of allegory as he did write The Allegory of Love. He maintained that the books were not allegory, and preferred to call the Christian aspects of them "suppositional". This indicates Lewis' view of Narnia as a fictional parallel universe.
I can see how some people may complain that a religious agenda would be pushed through cinema if a church held such a movie night. However, most churches understand a minimal amount about outreach and know that certain events are opportunities to reach out to the community and not alienate them.
Besides what couldn't be gained if the movies shown were of the same family standard as BOLT or Cars or something? I don't see the city allowing "The Passion of Christ" to be shown and I don't think the churches would want that either.
I do agree that movies with the same standard as Bolt or Cars would be ok with me.
I think Movie Star should step up.
I think that perhaps we could partner with the Chamber and the citizens and businesses together can pony up pledges for the movies to continue.
The sponsor should be something dealing with movies or something inoffensive.
As far as religion goes, some of you ppl are unbelievable. If you would actually open your heart and eyes to something new you may just come around. So many ppl have the mindset of "i cant see God so you cant prove it to me" attitude. You cant see the wind either. You know its there. You cant see oxygen but you know its there. Same scenario.
Thanks!
You say that like you know me. Well the truth is you don't. Just for you information I have attended church for years. Churches of all kinds all over the place. I'm still struggling with the idea of God. But this is personal and don't with to talk about it here or with strangers. Just wanted you to know that some people try and still don't believe. Maybe because they have things to live for?