+1

He's earned this. It's time for the forum to step up.

It's not that kind of studio.

I like the idea in general, but am not a fan of the studios moderating it. As has already been mentioned, there's nothing stopping them from deleting anything critical of their movies. Also, is there going to be a rep and a mod from each studio that participates? I can foresee a lot of "This movie SUCKS!" or "This studio SUCKS!" threads in the Movie Talk/DVD Review forums if the studio mods start deleting posts.

I would imagine they will tolerate some criticism. If those who criticize explain why they think it's not good, then I would hope they would leave it, but if people are going to simply create threads with "this studio sucks" and "this movie sucks" with no explanation of their reasoning, then they deserve to get their threads deleted. And I imagine that the regular parts of the forum will not tolerate the same sort of threads unless you're giving some sort of explanation other than "i made a thread that said it sucked and they deleted it. now i'm making a thread in movie talk because they still suck" I would say the same rules in the studio forum will apply for the regular. If you're threadcrapping or breaking the rules, and suspensions will apply. (AFAIK, We've (mods/admins) had no discussions with regards to anything related to the studio forums, maybe X has with IB, but this post is just my opinion which is basically common sense.)

Studio moderated place for them to post things.......it sounds like indirect advertising, which is just a step below banners and in some cases worse because it will look like a legitimate discussion.

Put me on the NO list.

They need a forum to promote upcoming releases? Doesn't sound like much interaction. In theory it could work but I don't see it benefitting the readers of dvdtalk much at all.

I have to agree with this.

I'd be ok with there being moderation as long as it's the type of comment that wouldn't be OK, say, in a console-specific thread in Video Game talk. i.e. "MGM sux fox 4eva!!!!one"

I agree that people need to follow the rules wherever they may post on DVD Talk, but I guess I'm just a pessimist and see problems arising from studios doing their own moderating.

Sounds good to me. I don't really care if they moderate as long as they allow constructive criticism. Plenty of folks here will probably try and play mini mod regardless.

Just to let you guys know so far we are leaning towards the smaller and midsize studios who have shown us the most interest. Of course our door remains open for the big ones to join as well.. :-)

I, for one, can't wait for the folks from The Asylum to start shilling Transmorphers: Fall of Man in person!

i demand that the first studio allowed in be Disney so we can grill them as to why they havent released Song of the South on DVD or Blu!

It is. There are always countless ads for Song of the South on DVD Talk!

Thats right and it must be legit, they would never allow bootlegs here. Right?

Will there be one forum with multiple studios, or separate forums for each studio? It would seem that there will either be multiple studios with mod ability in one forum, or there would just be several forums to wade through.

As long as these studios actually interact with us, and are able to handle the majority of a site possibly turning on a movie, I don't see a problem. If things go haywire, I'll just avoid the forums.