Final cut privilege

Final cut privilege is the right of an individual (often a director or producer) to approve the version of a film released for public viewing.[1]

Condition

Before a film is released, studio executives will often make changes for commercial purposes, or to remove any controversial content, with or without the approval of the director. Sometimes such practices can cause conflict between the director and the studio (see American History X and Brazil).[2]

On nearly all occasions in the United States, only established and bankable directors (such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, or Quentin Tarantino) are given final cut privileges. Outside the Hollywood studio system—in France, for example—directors whose reputations are built on artistic merit, as opposed to bankability, frequently have final cut privilege for their films. In the United States there are only some acclaimed, but not necessarily bankable directors, such as Woody Allen, Alexander Payne and Terrence Malick, who enjoy final cut privilege.[3][4]

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See also

References
  1. Citizen Kane at History Today.
  2. "Film Has Two Versions; Only One Is Julie Taymor’s" at The New York Times (March 20, 2007).
  3. "Fade-out on final-cut privileges?" at Variety.
  4. "Michel Gondry talks Be Kind Rewind" Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine at North by Northwestern

Further reading
  • Gerstner, David A. & Staiger, Janet. (2002). Authorship and film. (AFI Film Readers) Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-93994-2.
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