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Foreign Screenings (According to Maureen McDonald)?


I was reading an article just a few minutes ago, and I stumbled across this quote from Maureen McDonald (brother of Michael McDonald, and singer of "Out on My Own" and "Twice Upon a Time" [who helped write the songs]). What do you guys make of this? (from http://home.earthlink.net/~ironybread/20yrs.htm)

"Awareness of the feature in the United States is growing thanks to perennial broadcasts on Cartoon Network. It remains alive overseas as well. 'We get royalty checks all the time,' says singer/songwriter Maureen McDonald. 'Internationally, the film is big. If we’re looking since '84, it has been played consistently on cable all over Europe and throughout the world. We’ve even gotten radio airplay in places like France and Germany. It’s been played in Japan. The European market is so much more open on a creative side than the U.S. market.'"

I know it only got one broadcast on Cartoon Network (I've heard two from some sources - can't find them easily, which is why I tend to just go with the single airing), but has it really been screened abroad, theatrically or on cable (let alone gotten songs on the radio)? Can anyone confirm this?

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Of course the movie has been screened "abroad", why wouldn't it? It was a moderately large production funded by both Lucasfilm and Warner's. Do you think they would just write off their investment because Ladd Company screwed up the distribution in one solitary country: the USA?





Who's driving this plane? Stan Butler?

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I've just never found any record of it being shown on foreign television, or released to foreign cinemas.

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Australian VHS release:
http://www.videocollector.co.uk/twice-upon-a-time/34297

This very site lists Canadian, Australian and UK certificates:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086489/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg#certification

Not to mention Estonian, Finnish and Swedish alternative titles:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086489/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt#akas

There's probably plenty of other evidence but I haven't time to search it out.






Who's driving this plane? Stan Butler?

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It demonstrates what a good film it is. And that good film is appreciated the world over, no matter who the audience is.

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