The Edited Movie Encyclopedia: CLEANFLIX SAGA TAKES IRONIC FINAL TWIST

Friday, February 1, 2008

CLEANFLIX SAGA TAKES IRONIC FINAL TWIST

BY DADE HAYES / February 1, 2008
The Daily Varity

Flix Club's Thompson arrested in Utah.

The vexing saga of CleanFlix, the Utah-based service that excised naughty bits from DVDs, took an ironic final twist last week when one of its franchisees cued up a lurid scene in real life.

Daniel D. Thompson, 31, and Isaac R. Lifferth, 24, were arrested in Utah on suspicion of paying two 14-year-old girls for sex. Neither has been formally charged.

Thompson ran Flix Club, a branch of CleanFlix that offered sanitized versions of even PG-13 fare, attracting a sizable following, especially among Christian consumers. The company was forced to shut down in December after a federal court ruled that its versions of studio films constituted copyright violation.

The alleged sex acts took place at the Flix Club shop in Orem, Utah. Police also found a sizable cache of pornography there, but Thompson claimed it was for "personal use," authorities say.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Spielberg says no one has the right to impose their truth on top of his. My response to that is, he's the God of truth? We just want to watch a movie without sex and nudity.
Ray Lines, C.E.O. Clean Flicks

Sometimes a movie can be like a Trojan Horse from Satan.
ClearPlay Advertisement
www.movieratingsmislead.com

A lot of people are just really tired of [. . . ] turning on the TV or renting a movie and constantly being hit by violence, profanity and nudity. A lot of people want to go back to the 1950s, before this sort of thing was routine.
Sandra Teraci, Family Flix USA

This has very little to do with protecting children. There are all kinds of religious, political and ideological biases at work.
Robert Rosen, Dean of UCLA Film

Sanitizing movies to delete content that may offend some people is an illegitimate business.
Judge Richard Matsch, U.S. District Court

I think it's stupid that Hollywood is getting all artistic and putting that garbage into films.
Dawn Gillings, Cougar Video Customer

It's sad that Hollywood finds it wrong to take out profanity, sexual content and nudity.
Daniel Thompson, Clean Flicks Dealer

People have been ordering $200, $300 worth of movies. What else can they do? They know it's the last chance they'll have. This is Satan at his best.
Mandy Botts, Manager of 3 Clean Flicks Dealerships

Audiences can now be assured that the films they buy or rent are the vision of the filmmakers who made them and not the arbitrary choices of a third-party editor.
Michael Apted, DGA

This is a typical case of David vs. Goliath, but in this case, Hollywood rewrote the ending. We're going to continue to fight.
Ray Lines, C.E.O. Clean Flicks

Once you edit Kate Winslett’s breasts out of 'Titanic,' what’s the point of the movie? It is a little-known fact that the inspiration for 'Titanic' began when James Cameron asked himself, 'How can I get Kate Winslett to take off her clothes on camera?'
Robert Stacy McCain, Opinion Columnist and Blogger

Daniel Dean Thompson . . . has NEVER been a partner, officer, affiliate, dealer, franchisee, collaborator, consultant or representative of any Clean Flicks entity in any capacity.
Ray Lines, C.E.O. Clean Ficks

The Edited Movie Encyclopedia

Friday, February 1, 2008

CLEANFLIX SAGA TAKES IRONIC FINAL TWIST

No comments:

Would You Rent or Purchase an Edited Movie?

When watching a film, what do you find most offensive?

Edited Movie Stores, Distributors, & Liquidators Still In Business

Edited Movie Stores, Distributors, & Liquidators Now Closed

Other Sites of Interest