Awesome news.
It's time for our most anticipated update! We know that all the delays were annoying but we kept quiet until everything was uncovered. Now, we can announce the ultimate news for our upcoming release of BLOODY FRIDAY.
But, before we lift the secret we wish to tell you a little background story.
In update No. 7 we told you that we digitized the original German mag track to get the best possible sound that's available, totally unaware of what would happen afterwards.
Due to plenty other projects at the same time we didn't check the results right away. They sat on the desk, waiting.
After weeks of working on the other supplements, our studio wizards @LSP Medien finally began to synchronize and restore the mag track. Somewhere in the middle of the film, they were puzzled. The sound was completely out of sync. They fixed it and moved on to their second puzzling moment, as the sound was suddenly out of sync again. Huh?
Everyone was puzzled now and there it was - the mag track was longer than it should be.
Could it really be....?
After checking old records, we discovered an ominous entry telling us about a version from 1972 that obviously never hit the screens.
COULD IT REALLY BE...?!
We contacted our licensor and asked for further informations, but „There never was another version!“ was the answer. Unacceptable!
We asked them (actually penetrated them day by day) to check the vault. The good folks at Lisa Film started to dig in their archives and found a mysterious reel labeled „OCN outtakes + deleted scenes“. Nobody knew what was in there.
We decided to digitize every single frame the vault gave free, unbenownst to us that we would experience the most terrible wait of our life.
After (too many) weeks, we finally received all the materials on a innocent Friday in February 2016, a date that now marks a new moment in film history, because there it was!
The missing footage we had sound for was now available as moving images plus a whole bunch of deleted scenes from the original negative!
Long story short:
We're totally happy and proud to announce the world premiere of the never before seen original - DIRECTOR'S CUT - version of Rolf Olsen's over-the-top thriller BLOODY FRIDAY!
It's time for our most anticipated update! We know that all the delays were annoying but we kept quiet until everything was uncovered. Now, we can announce the ultimate news for our upcoming release of BLOODY FRIDAY.
But, before we lift the secret we wish to tell you a little background story.
In update No. 7 we told you that we digitized the original German mag track to get the best possible sound that's available, totally unaware of what would happen afterwards.
Due to plenty other projects at the same time we didn't check the results right away. They sat on the desk, waiting.
After weeks of working on the other supplements, our studio wizards @LSP Medien finally began to synchronize and restore the mag track. Somewhere in the middle of the film, they were puzzled. The sound was completely out of sync. They fixed it and moved on to their second puzzling moment, as the sound was suddenly out of sync again. Huh?
Everyone was puzzled now and there it was - the mag track was longer than it should be.
Could it really be....?
After checking old records, we discovered an ominous entry telling us about a version from 1972 that obviously never hit the screens.
COULD IT REALLY BE...?!
We contacted our licensor and asked for further informations, but „There never was another version!“ was the answer. Unacceptable!
We asked them (actually penetrated them day by day) to check the vault. The good folks at Lisa Film started to dig in their archives and found a mysterious reel labeled „OCN outtakes + deleted scenes“. Nobody knew what was in there.
We decided to digitize every single frame the vault gave free, unbenownst to us that we would experience the most terrible wait of our life.
After (too many) weeks, we finally received all the materials on a innocent Friday in February 2016, a date that now marks a new moment in film history, because there it was!
The missing footage we had sound for was now available as moving images plus a whole bunch of deleted scenes from the original negative!
Long story short:
We're totally happy and proud to announce the world premiere of the never before seen original - DIRECTOR'S CUT - version of Rolf Olsen's over-the-top thriller BLOODY FRIDAY!
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