A Letter from PIONEER FILMS

Lunes, Nobyembre 12, 2012

A Letter from PIONEER FILMS

Dear friends and partners,

It has come to the attention of Lionsgate that a pirated feature of “THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER” has now been available online, and also on pirated DVD’s, since 24 October 2012.

Upon checking by Technicolor Labs U.S., they found out that the source of piracy came from one of the theaters in Manila which Pioneer Films have provided with 35mm features.

The cinemas that were given 35mm features specifically include the ff:

Glorietta

Greenbelt 3

PowerPlant

Market-Market

Trinoma

Shangrila

Sta. Lucia Mall

Robinsons Galleria

Robinsons Ermita

Robinsons MetroEast

Shangri-La

Gateway Cinema

Alabang Town Center and

Filinvest Cinema

Therefore, the pirated source must have come from one of these theaters. We were not able to pinpoint the theater responsible for this leak because the prints were not numbered when it was delivered, which we admit, may have been our fault.

We hope that, in the future, cinemas will be more strict in providing security for films released in their theaters.

Lionsgate has threatened that, if piracy is not contained, they will no longer allow the Philippines to release films day-and-date with the U.S.. This will adversely affect our box office performance especially with big films such as “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2”.

We hope that with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2”, all cinemas will provide the best security so that this illegal activity will not happen again.

This is a very important matter and we should not take this problem lightly.