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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: DUNE
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 04:46:40 EST
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From:	uok!dwhitney	(David Whitney)

> Dune, a $40 million epic science-fiction feature, is to be released
> this Christmas (I don't know the specific date; but it is to be at
> Christmas time.)

In the Boston area, DUNE is scheduled to open on December 14.


> Some in the industry are nervous about it; some preview screenings of
> the film have drawn mixed-to-negative reviews, though officials with
> the film deny this.  If I have read correctly, there have been three
> preview screenings, and while the overall reaction was one of "okay,"
> it was by no means the "Oh my gosh, this is awesome" reaction which was
> anticipated..

I don't worry about preview screenings. I don't think I've ever heard of
*any* movie whose preview screenings elicited raves. As a matter of fact,
I heard that people booed and walked out of a preview screening of
BLADERUNNER.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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