Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hropus!riccb!ihopa!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtgzz!leeper From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Runaway Message-ID: <1631@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 12:47:52 EST Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1631 Posted: Mon Feb 3 12:47:52 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Feb-86 19:56:47 EST References: <1137@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 28 >From: Richard Pavelle > >There is a 1984 SF film called Runaway with Tom Selleck on >cable this month. I found it quite enjoyable and wonder >whether it ever made it into the cinemas. I do not remember >it. Does anyone recall whether it did? It played for a few weeks around here and was reviewed on, I believe, AT THE MOVIES. It did not get very good reviews. >A related question: It often seems that good movies appear >on cable that have never played in the cinemas. How does >this happen? Many ways. Some films are made just for cable (e.g. THE TERRY FOX STORY). Some get narrow distribution before they come to cable, playing for only a few days and/or only in a few cities, or only in Europe (e.g. LOVESPELL (good adaptation of the story of TRISTAN AND ISOLDE), and ANDROID). Some films are made for theatrical release but no distributor thinks that it will be profitable enough to distribute the film. Cable needs a lot of films and does not worry as much about profitability (they have a sort of paying audience already). Cable often uses as a selling point the fact that it has "little gems" that it was quite unlikely you saw in a theater. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper