Digitally Erase the Rat From the End of The Departed

A project in New York, NY by Adam Sacks
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That rat was a bad idea and we can fix it.
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Funded: $4,935 of $4,000
Dates: Feb 19th -> Mar 21st (30 days)
Project By: Adam Sacks
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Latest News

Warner Bros. squashed a fan's Kickstarter campaign to edit the rat out of the ending of 'The Departed'

March 1st - via: businessinsider.in
"The Departed" finally got Martin Scorsese his best director Oscar in 2007, but one aspect of the movie rubs some fans the wrong way. A Kickstarter campaign launched by Adam Sacks of New York went viral this month for drawing attention to the movie's ending. The Kickstarter attempted to raise $4,000 by March 21 in order to purchase the necessary equipment to digitally erase the rat from the final shot of "The Departed." (Read More)

Studio Shuts Down Kickstarter Attempt To Change The Ending Of Departed

March 1st - via: cinemablend.com
Debating movies is part of the fun of watching them in the first place. People always have different opinions and perspectives and so talking out the different aspects of film is a lot of fun for many of us. What do you think the final scene of Martin Scorsese's The Departed? At least one person really hated it, to the point he started a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to digitally alter the shot. However, Warner Bros. has now stepped in and killed the idea, and kept the rat alive. (Read More)

Warner Bros. Shuts Down Fan Campaign to Edit Rat Ending of The Departed

February 27th - via: ign.com
Adam Sacks, the man behind the Kickstarter campaign to fund a cut of the movie that does not feature the rat, announced on Twitter that the campaign had come to an end after Warner Bros. alleged the campaign infringed on its intellectual property. (Read More)

Warner Bros. puts the hit on project to change ending from

February 26th - via: boston.com
Remember the guy who raised thousands of dollars to erase the rat at the end of  (Read More)

Kickstarter drops rat removal fundraiser for

February 26th - via: ippromagazine.com
A Kickstarter dedicated to erasing a rat that appears at the end of the film The Departed has been taken down following a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request by Warner Bros. Adam Sacks, the creator of the Kickstarter, aimed to digitally erase the rat, describing it as a  (Read More)

Kickstarter Deletes Campaign to Digitally Remove Rat From the End of 'The Departed'

February 26th - via: geek.com
Adam Sacks recently made headlines with his Kickstarter campaign to  (Read More)

The project to erase the rat from the end of

February 26th - via: bostonglobe.com
Remember the guy who raised thousands of dollars to erase the rat at the end of  (Read More)

The Departed: Why Martin Scorsese

February 22nd - via: scroll.in
The 2006 crime drama The Departed may have won four Oscars, including Best Director for Martin Scorsese and Best Picture, but there was one scene that did not impress some fans  (Read More)

What This Guy's Kickstarter To Remove The Rat From 'The Departed' Says About Fan Culture

February 21st - via: wbur.org
Film fans on the internet have been all fired up for the past couple days, after an enterprising young movie lover named Adam Sacks launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to digitally remove the rat that scampers across our view of the Massachusetts State House (Read More)

Kickstarter campaign aims to digitally erase rat from

February 21st - via: foxnews.com
An online campaign aimed to erase the rat at the end of the Martin Scorsese mobster-inspired flick  (Read More)

One man raised thousands of dollars to erase the rat from 'The Departed'

February 21st - via: boston.com
By just about any measure, Martin Scorsese (Read More)

Kickstarter for 'The Departed' Wants to Digitally Remove That Damn Rat

February 20th - via: dailydot.com
Adam Sacks is on a mission to fix The Departed. The Martin Scorsese best picture-winner is all but flawless. That is apart from the very last scene, according to Sacks, when an actual rat (Read More)

Guy Launches Kickstarter to Wipe the Silly Symbolic Rat From the End of 'The Departed'

February 20th - via: geek.com
Kickstarter is a truly amazing thing. We (Read More)

February 20th - via: uproxx.com
At the end of Martin Scorsese (Read More)

Kickstarter to Exterminate Rat from The Departed Ending Exceeds Its Goal

February 20th - via: movieweb.com
A new joke Kickstarter project to remove the rat from the end of Martin Scorsese's The Departed has exceeded its $4,000 goal. Short filmmaker Adam Sacks set up the project to fix the "one huge problem" in the Academy Award winning movie in a campaign called Digitally Erase The Rat From The End Of The Departed. Sacks makes the joking argument that the rat at the end of a movie about rats is "painfully on the nose." (Read More)

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