Post by LSuperSonicQ on May 3, 2016 14:11:27 GMT
Just wondering how your friend has a movie that was never released and literally no one in existence has seen it?
Could it be possible this friend is the missing link with the library situation? Yknow, the person who never returned it? I doubt the library would answer if we asked for specific names, and though it's really unlikely, it's possible.
We discovered the library listing a looooong time ago, probably in September of last year or so. At the time, we established that the titles on the flyer had been automatically pulled from a list by a bot searching for key words. So like, the bot would search "spongebob" and ADWSS happened to come up as an upcoming/recent release. After the bot pulled that as a search result, whoever made the flyer simply copy/pasted the titles and printed it out, not actually knowing what they were typing in.
While Obscura claims someone had called the library and they "confirmed" it was checked out and not returned, I personally don't recall that ever happening, and even if it did- what else is a library going to say about stock that isn't there anymore. They don't know ADWSS was never released and that shady Reagal films made it. They just see a missing DVD from a list it was evidently on, and so they came to the conclusion someone never returned it.
It's the same thing with MVD. They claim "promo copies may have slipped out", but what else is a distribution company going to say about a DVD they never had any stock for. Just a generalized guess that "it might be out there but we don't have it". Until I see the library acknowledge that [insert a real name here] checked the movie out on [pick a day] and it was indeed the ADWSS from Reagal, I refuse to believe the flyer/library thing is a viable or useful lead.