good enough for a theaterical release?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Avenging Angelo
Billybob-Shatner — 20 years ago(September 06, 2005 01:50 AM)
A lot of movies get theatrically released. Good bad and indifferent. Why don't you think this one didn't get a release in theaters? Is it a good movie? Nah.. but it's certainly a lot better than the other straight to video movies out there, and better than some movies that have made it to the theaters. Any have any idea why it wound up straight to video? The financial failure of Get Carter and the other preceeding Stallone film going straight to video? Coster had like 4-5 flops in a row once that didn't stop his films from being released.
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GaelinW — 20 years ago(January 08, 2006 11:28 PM)
It's an okay movie. But it probably didn't get a theatrical release because Stallone got 20m. The studio either didn't have enough money left for marketing a theatrical release. Or on viewing the final film, didn't think they should waste the money.
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GaelinW — 20 years ago(January 18, 2006 10:32 PM)
So they put at least 20m, probably a minimum of 40mm, in a movie and then bury it solely (or primarily) out of respect for Anthony Quinn? Out of a belief that it wasn't worthy enough for him to have been remembered by? That the minor role that he played in it would majorly impact his 50+ year legacy?
That speaks volumes to their faith in it. (not)
As much as Hollywood may value its movie legends (debatable), it's still fundamentally a money-making operation. It wasn't released because someone upstairs figured it was time to cut their losses.
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