Word filters out today that Can’t Stop the Serenity, the worldwide charity event which I founded in 2006 and which thus far has raised more than $160,000 for Equality Now faces an unexpected challenge: The destruction (against very clear and explicit instructions inside Universal itself, I should make clear) of all but twelve of the domestically-available prints of the film.
In essence, this means that any American city which has not yet booked a print of the film for its event this year will have to decide whether to change to another date (if they were aiming for the central dates) in order to book a print, stick with the central weekend of the event but project the film from a DVD (if their venue even has the capability to do so), or cancel their event altogether (something I assume all cities would only consider as a last resort).
It is not, of course, an outright disaster, and I can only assume at this point that this year’s organizers are batting around contingency plans and various options. Nonetheless, it is profoundly aggravating, since most of the reason these prints still existed in the first place was so that they would be available to the participating Can’t Stop the Serenity cities.
And just to reiterate: None of the blame for this rests with the longtime contact at Universal who has worked with CSTS from the beginning. I do need that to be clear.
But seriously, this is some messed up and unexpected shit that I certainly did not need right now.
Wow! What a mess. Don’t even want to know whose idea that was. `Sometimes it almost seems like a plot.
There’s no plot. Someone, somewhere, screwed up.