Word: movieland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands...
...poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from N.Y. theaters after only one week. Cimino promised to re-edit the film from its 225 minutes to a more conventional length of 2 1/2 hours. Unprecedented humiliation in Movieland...
...says, "very few superstars in Movieland could cut that kind of mustard...
...across the U.S., there has been a desperate scramble to raise funds for new theaters. Yet here were existing facilities with magnificent spaces, often excellent acoustics, huge stages and sumptuous interiors. Thus in one city after another, people have joined in crusades to save and refurbish the pleasuredomes of movieland...