Talk:DEJ Productions

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Thanks much for allowing me the opportunity to present the significance of a company with which I have no financial interest, no colleagues, or any other connection to other than my profession as a film professor at Southern Methodist University. DEJ Productions is a very significant film studio, more prolific than almost all of the non-majors film studios already with pages on Wikipedia. As a film scholar and professor at SMU, I have often wondered how so many pages make reference to DEJ Productions yet there is no page on DEJ Productions. The significance of this company can be seen in the regular coverage given to the studio in Billboard, Variety, Video Business Magazine and other sites. Their business model in the DVD era was to provide original content to Blockbuster as it tried to transition from a VHS-window era to a sell-through DVD environment. A risky strategy which brought 225 features to the marketplace which might never have been released. 30 features a year would be challenging for a major studio, let alone a start up. The studio was making so many inroads that the company was bought out in 2005. Many similar studios in the home video era simply collapsed. Not DEJ. In fact, the Oscar-winning Monster, the stellar film Crash, and Sylvester Stallone's Eye See You were among the films that would probably never have been seen in a theatre if not for DEJ. Film scholars will be viewing DEJ's work and discussing their business model long after many of the similar era studios featured on Wikipedia are long forgotten. Synapse Films? Millennium Entertainment? I don't think they have the caché that DEJ Productions had despite a relative short 8-year run before being bought out by First Look Studios. I very much appreciate the opportunity to stick up for a company with whom I had absolutely no relation but had been dead ended many times on individual pages for films such as D-Tox and Crash.

David Sedman 8/23/2011 Dsedman (talk) 02:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Any major-category (Actor, Picture, Director) Oscar-winning studio should be worthy of its own Wikipedia page. That's significant. But this one with its business model and 28 releases per year does have merit and will likely be discussed by film scholars for decades to come. I think Crash and Monster are two of the more significant films of the early 2000s. As for the Stallone flick, not so much, but maybe My Date with Drew given the camcorder to big screen storyline? Vestron Pictures is certainly an equal from the VHS period to DEJ. Perhaps placing a filmography (see Vestron) might help others see the sheer magnitude of this studio's contributions to the films of the early 21st Century. Rachel Strong 8/23/2011 Zstrongz (talk) 02:27, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I am adding the productions at the bottom and thanks for adding the categories. There are so many references to DEJ already on Wikipedia that it's hard to imagine how they wouldn't be worthy of inclusion. David Sedman 8/23/2011Dsedman (talk) 03:23, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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