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Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« on: January 27, 2017, 06:42:29 PM »
As outlined in the FAQ, films are eligible up to a three-year period, starting with their first theatrical release, but with five limiting factors. Films are no longer eligible in subsequent years after any of the following occur:

1) The film gains a wide theatrical release in the US (playing simultaneously on more than 100 or so screens).

2) The film debuts on DVD in the US.

3) The film earns a Filmspot nomination.

4) The film is a made-for-tv film and airs on US television.

5) The film's US rights are exclusively owned by a streaming service (such as Netflix) and the film premieres on that service.

(See here for the origin of these guidelines.)

I'll keep track of films with questionable eligibility below.

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ELIGIBLE
Always Shine
Angry Inuk
Aquarius
The Bad Batch
Best and Most Beautiful Things
The Brand New Testament
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Closet Monster
Courted
Dheepan
The Eagle Huntress
Frantz
Gimme Danger
Graduation
Hidden Figures
Holy Hell
HyperNormalisation
I Am Not Your Negro
I, Daniel Blake
Ice and the Sky
It's Only the End of the World
Julieta
Kaili Blues
Krisha
Listen to Me Marlon
Little Sister
Love
The Love Witch
The Lure
Maliglutit
A Monster Calls
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
My King
My Life as a Zucchini
Nocturama
One Man and His Cow
One More Time with Feeling
Paris 05:59: Theo + Hugo
Paterson
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Raw
The Red Turtle
Right Now, Wrong Then
Sairat
The Salesman
Seasons
Secret Path
Silence
Sleeping Giant
Sonita
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
(T)error
Things to Come
Tickled
Train to Busan
Tschick
20th Century Women
Under the Shadow
Visaaranai
Your Name
Zero Days


INELIGIBLE
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Aferim!
Allied
American Honey
April and the Extraordinary World
Arabian Nights
Arrival
Astérix: Le Domaine des Dieux
Audrie & Daisy
Bad Moms
Barry
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Belgica
The BFG
A Bigger Splash
The Birth of a Nation
Blue Jay
Born to Be Blue
The Boy and the Beast
Café Society
Cameraperson
Captain America: Civil War
Captain Fantastic
Cartel Land
Cemetery of Splendor
Certain Women
The Club
The Confirmation
The Conjuring 2
Cosmos
Deadpool
Deepwater Horizon
Divines
Doctor Strange
Don't Breathe
Don't Think Twice
Eddie the Eagle
The Edge of Seventeen
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Elle
Embrace of the Serpent
Everybody Wants Some!!
Eye in the Sky
Fan
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Lies
Fences
Finding Dory
The Fits
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Forbidden Room
Fort Tilden
45 Years
Francofonia
Ghostbusters
The Girl on the Train
Gleason
Gods of Egypt
Green Room
Hacksaw Ridge
Hail, Caesar!
The Handmaiden
Hell or High Water
Hello, My Name Is Doris
High-Rise
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
In Jackson Heights
Into the Inferno
The Invitation
Jackie
James White
Jane Got a Gun
The Jungle Book
Keanu
Kill Zone 2
Knight of Cups
Kubo and the Two Strings
La La Land
Last Days in the Desert
Lemonade
Lion
The Little Prince
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
The Lobster
Long Way North
Love & Friendship
Loving
Macbeth
Manchester by the Sea
Marguerite
The Measure of a Man
The Mermaid
Midnight Special
Miss Sharon Jones!
Moana
Moonlight
Mountains May Depart
Mustang
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
The Neon Demon
The Nice Guys
Nocturnal Animals
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
O.J.: Made in America
Other People
Our Little Sister
Pee-Wee's Big Holiday
Pete's Dragon
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Piper
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Queen of Katwe
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Sausage Party
The Second Mother
The Secret Life of Pets
The Shallows
Sing
Sing Street
Spa Night
Star Trek Beyond
Storks
Suicide Squad
Sully
Sunset Song
Swiss Army Man
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Taxi
10 Cloverfield Lane
Theeb
13th
Toni Erdmann
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Tower
The Tribe
Trolls
Victoria
The Wailing
Weiner
Wiener-Dog
Where to Invade Next
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
The Witch
The Witness
X-Men: Apocalypse
Youth
Zootopia
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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2017, 06:53:59 PM »
If you see any films listed as eligible that don't seem like they should be, please let me know.

I don't know if these titles will have any increased availability in 2017:

Angry Inuk
The Bad Batch
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Courted
HyperNormalisation
Ice and the Sky
Listen to Me Marlon
Love
The Lure
Maliglutit
One Man and His Cow
Paris 05:59: Theo + Hugo Now in theaters!
Right Now, Wrong Then
Sairat
Seasons
Secret Path
Sleeping Giant
Sonita
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
(T)error
Tschick
Visaaranai

The rest look to be coming to US theaters or DVD during the year.

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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2017, 06:57:24 PM »
One other note:

One More Time with Feeling probably played at 100+ US theaters in 2016, but it was a 'one night only' event, so I didn't let that affect its eligibility.

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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2017, 07:00:32 PM »
If you see any films listed as eligible that don't seem like they should be, please let me know.

I know if these titles will have any increased availability in 2017:

I'm assuming there's a "don't" missing in there ?
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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2017, 07:03:54 PM »
Yes, thanks!

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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2017, 08:02:08 PM »
Silence hype!

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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2017, 08:41:09 PM »
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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2017, 09:02:52 PM »
Silence.

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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2017, 09:10:23 PM »
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Re: Filmspots 2017: Eligibility Questions
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2017, 01:25:00 PM »
If you see any films listed as eligible that don't seem like they should be, please let me know.

I don't know if these titles will have any increased availability in 2017:

Angry Inuk (it's National Film Board of Canada, so it should be a streaming rental on their website this year)
The Bad Batch (Netflix has streaming rights, but they might still be shopping it for theatrical release)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (has screenings scheduled in Feb (Calgary) and March (Brooklyn), but no theatrical release)
Maliglutit (will be streaming on IsumaTV; currently in theatre in Toronto)
Secret Path (not a theatrical release; can be streamed on CBC)
Sleeping Giant (available on DVD)


 

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