Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: DUNE Message-ID: <68@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 04:46:40 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.68 Posted: Wed Nov 28 04:46:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 05:49:33 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 26 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA