into deep space, which will be a first for motion picture. Check out the studio's press release:
Twentieth Century Fox makes history by transmitting the first motion picture in to deep space, making
The Day the Earth Stood Still the world's first galactic motion picture release. The first deliberate deep space transmission of this highly anticipated science fiction thriller will begin this Friday, December 12, 2008, to coincide with the film's opening day on Planet Earth. If any civilizations are currently orbiting Alpha Centauri, they will be able to receive and view the film approximately four years from now in the year 2012.
In a time when global movie launches are now commonplace, Fox is raising the bar by spearheading, with Deep Space Communications Network located at Cape Canaveral, the ultimate in "wide release" platforms. As millions of Earthbound movie fans get their first look at
The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, the film will be zipping through space at 186,000 miles per second to a heretofore untapped possible consumer base orbiting the three star system, Alpha Centauri.
Commented Twentieth Century Fox domestic distribution president Bruce Snyder: "We at Fox always like to think big, and what's bigger than a 'galactic' release of a major motion picture event? We look forward to sharing
The Day the Earth Stood Still with our galactic neighbors near Alpha Centauri -- and look forward to their feedback...eight years from now."
Industry watchers and film historians will note that due to the distance between our solar system and the Alpha Centauri system, it will take over eight years (accounting for a roundtrip communication) to receive any Alpha Centauri reviews. The transmission is not a single beam aimed at just the Alpha Centauri system, but can be received by any advanced technologically capable civilization along the way to Alpha Centauri, and beyond.
Prior to its arrival at Alpha Centauri, the transmission of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL can be intercepted and viewed at various points in our own solar system (Distance from Earth - at the speed of light - and transmission time, as follows):
Moon: 0.000000038, 1.1991888 seconds
Sun: 0.000016, 8.41536 minutes
Mercury: 0.0000095, 4.99662 minutes
Venus: 0.00000476, 2.5035696 minutes
Mars: 0.0000076, 3.997296 minutes
Jupiter: 0.0000666, 35.028936 minutes
Saturn: 0.000135, 1.18341 hours
Uranus: 0.000285, 2.49831 hours
Neptune: 0.00046, 4.03236 hours
Pluto: 0.0006183, 5.4200178 hours
"We are thrilled about beaming this film into space. This will be our first full length movie transmission. And what could be more relevant to send into Deep Space than a movie about the Earth's acceptance of visitors from outer space," commented Jim Lewis, Managing Director, Deep Space Communications Network
About DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK:
Deep Space Communications Network is a private organization located east of Orlando. DSCN was formed specifically to communicate with outerspace by a group of broadcast engineers and communications experts who regularly transmit from the space center.
The beam transmitting
The Day the Earth Stood Still is by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
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Thanks, guys. Much appreciated. I needed to let loose
Get over it bitch.
I say the next time he copy and pastes something from another source without references, we mark him as spam, since the only comments he's makes are socio-pathological ones, meant to create chaos and anger enough for someone like VIS to draft such a derisive comment in reply. I'd hate to be Cell. I can't fathom the dark abyss his life must be to be filled with so much hate.
Your attempts at intelligent comments have gotten you nowhere and you may think you're smart, but all that comes out of your mouth is bullshit. It isn't an "insult." An insult is you thinking a movie is crap just because it's a remake before actually seeing it, prick. Did you think Jackson's King Kong was crap? I don't see you up in arms about The Wolfman? What about Batman Begins? That was a "reimagining." Get the fuck over it and yourself, asshole. The original movie is over 50 years old, and when this is released, the original won't be sucked into a black hole, dickwad. Face facts that this will be a good movie! You are such a waste of time and space. Do you even have friends, because I can't imagine how you are in real life. I bet you're a fat lard sitting at the computer eating Cheetos messaging your happy place. I don't know what goes on through your head when you type comments, but I wish you would just leave this site because EVERYONE knows your stance on issues, and it's really annoying. I also wish that for just once, you'd CONFRONT someone. Or do you not because you know your wrong and can't back up your opinion other than the fact it's a remake. GET OVER IT. You have no friends and zero taste in good movies. You're a half assed critic and an even worse person. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
THE 1951 ORIGINAL FILM: Ranked seventh in Arthur C. Clarke's List of the Best Science-Fiction Films of All Time, just above Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, for which Clarke himself wrote the screenplay. In 1995, The Day the Earth Stood Still was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2008, it was voted as the fifth best science fiction film ever made as part of the AFI's 10 Top 10.
..............WILL A RE-MAKE ACCOMPLISH ALL OF THAT HOLLYWOOD!!! DAMN, NOW OTHER CREATURES, PEOPLE, ETC; FROM OUTER SPACE WILL THINK US EARTHLINGS ARE IDIOT'S ....I MEAN HOW ELSE CAN WE EXPLAIN AWAY 8 YRS OF BUSH!??!
So... ANYWAY. Is this such a good idea? It could be interpreted as an event that actually happened. Haven't we learned from Robotech?
We may inadvertently invite extra-terrestrials over here, thinking, "well gee, those human thingys are weaklings. Let's get us a new planet."
Oh well. Being visited by autonomous robotic beings is also much more likely to happen than being visited by organic ones. Machines with super AI or DNA imprinting replication can travel forever without aging. Is this all science fiction crap I'm talking about? I'm getting all this from The Universe series on the History channel.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Intergalactic release! What a bunch of MORONS!
Wonder if someone can hack the signal and download the movie free. Haha.