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Contents 1 Any opinions... 2 Looking for RS for upcoming film 3 Proposed deletion? 4 Assistance... 5 Thor (2011 film) 6 The Wicker Man 7 Proposed rewording of Template:Future film 8 Future films not rated Future-Class 9 Archiving 10 Deprecation of Future-Class 11 New articles

[edit] Any opinions...

...on Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikalam, Dagaw and Citizen Brando, all of which appear to have stalled during filming? PC78 (talk) 19:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

They can be reclassified as unfinished films. I think we are more tolerant of these as stand-alone articles since there was a tangible product being made once upon a time. —Erik (talk • contrib) 19:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

If you look at the refs for the first two, there actually is no evidence that they ever started shooting, despite what the articles say. AfD? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:16, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

The first one seems to check out from a cursory google search, but Dagaw seems a bit more dubious. PC78 (talk) 21:19, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Well spotted. This seems to suggest that it only started shooting last summer, so it would be a bit early to presume its unfinished or even stalled. Sorry, the other links all said that only the photo shoot had happened; in any case, we really should clarify for the benefit of the Indian task force that a photo shoot is a PR exercise and does not count as production beginning, because this is the third time I've seen that happen. Also, wrt the Brando project...despite the fact, it still might be in the best interests of the content to bring it back to the Brando article itself under an unfinished projects section - more as a general merge/split question than an NFF one, since the info is less than considerable in size. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I've got this source from last month which mentions the film being left uncompleted. PC78 (talk) 21:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Still, not so uncommon, even in Hollywood, for things to stall in between post and premiere or festival premiere and public release. Given the amount of time which has(n't) past, it might be worth waiting to hear it from the horse's mouth before writing it off as officially shelved. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 22:18, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for RS for upcoming film

For Michael Haneke's upcoming film Das Weiße Band (The White Ribbon). Could be listed to compete at Cannes next month, but I'm struggling to find sources. Any help would be grateful! Lugnuts (talk) 11:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Some German sources appear in a Google News search, along with appearances that at least confirm the entry in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and at FirstShowing. Give it another week or two and there should be a brief production notes .pdf at www.festival-cannes.com/en.html too. Steve ^{T • C} 12:38, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion?

Green Lantern (movie) has popped up again. I have had it deleted it once before since filming has yet commence on the project. Should this have been sent to Articles for deletion or should it be recommended for speedy deletion instead? TriiipleThreat (talk) 12:48, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Per guidance, an article recreated after deletion via a PROD should be sent to AfD next. Only if recreated after the AfD (if successful) will it be eligible for a speedy. All the best, Steve ^{T • C} 12:58, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks I have sent it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Green Lantern (movie). TriiipleThreat (talk) 19:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Assistance...

A user keeps recreating A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film), even after I have informed them that it currently fails WP:NFF. Per the future films guideline, the film must be in production and the production itself must be notable. At this time, all of the reliably sourced information about this film is at A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)#Future, and none of that is production info, but casting and the announcement of a future film site. The user is throwing things out like "IMDB talks about it" to justify the page.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 03:03, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thor (2011 film)

Page has once again been recreated, you may vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thor (2011 film) TriiipleThreat (talk) 13:18, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Vote is currently 4-3, please vote and help rationalize arguments.TriiipleThreat (talk) 13:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

There's no rush here; the AfD will run for several days yet. And please be aware of WP:CANVASS. That may not have been your attention, but to someone looking in it might not look good. Steve ^{T • C} 14:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning, I'll edit my posts. TriiipleThreat (talk) 14:42, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Wicker Man

Any opinions on The Wicker Man Trilogy, which concerns two as of yet unreleased or unmade films? I've already prodded Twilight of the Gods (film); the second film is lumped in with the novel at Cowboys for Christ, though I'm not sure if this falls under our scope or not. PC78 (talk) 18:22, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

From what I gather, it does not deserve its own article. Robin Hardy (film director) is sparse, so I think coverage about this intended trilogy can be placed there. It is misleading to treat the trilogy as reality, giving it its own article. —Erik (talk • contrib) 18:28, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed rewording of Template:Future film

Discussion here if anyone is interested. PC78 (talk) 12:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Future films not rated Future-Class

There are currently 140 articles tagged with {{future film}} but not rated as Future-Class for this project -- the list is here if anyone is interested. I've been slowly working my way through it, removing tags or reassessing as seems appropriate, but others are welcome to join in. :) PC78 (talk) 12:22, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving

I would like to archive the following pages to condense this department:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Future films/Proposed deletions
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Future films/Merges
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Future films/Articles for deletion

If there is a desire to hold onto the concept, we can revise the "Clean-up" section of WP:FUTFILM to have more condensed versions of these pages. From what I can tell, though, Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Article alerts and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Film are better tools to keep editors up to date, even though the scopes are a little wider. If no one has an issue with this, I will go ahead and mark the pages as archived. —Erik (talk • contrib) 00:28, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

No issue with that. The pages were useful for keeping track of the initial dissemination of WP:NFF, but now that seems to be widely accepted, these pages seem less necessary. Go right ahead. :-) Steve ^T • C 00:33, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deprecation of Future-Class

I've been following the discussions at WT:FILMC and it seems like there is an emerging concensus to remove Future-Class from our assessent scale. What does this mean for the month/year subcategories of Cat:Future-Class film articles? I was thinking that these could be preserved in main space to help keep Cat:Upcoming films organised. A new template could be created to populate these categories the same way as our banner currently does, but unlike the recently deleted {{future film}} it would have no visibe output in an article. Thoughts? PC78 (talk) 22:26, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Maybe we do not need to do anything new. Can we not use the {{Start date}} template in the film infobox to determine when a film came out? Erik (talk | contribs | wt:film) 12:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

{{Start date}} is to do with microformats (not something I know much about or am particuarly interested in), it's not something that could be used for what I'm talking about. Of course, if you're happy for all of these categories to go then that's fine too. :) PC78 (talk) 14:59, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

I've set up a new articles listing for future films at User:AlexNewArtBot/UpcomingFilmsSearchResult. Regards. PC78 (talk) 19:09, 21 October 2009 (UTC)