then why did I go and see it at the cinema when I was younger?
shareIf the Star Wars films were made for cinemas....
... Why have I seen them on TV a hundred times?
Idiot
Never defend crap with "It's just a movie"
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Meh I think you are the only one that comes across as an idiot. OP had a legit question.
shareMaybe I was a tad harsh, but someone with even a basic knowlege of the movie business should already know this.
Spielberg's 'Duel' was made for TV and got released into cinema's in other parts of the world.
'Das Boot' was made for German television and got a cinema release in the USA.
The pilot episode of 'Twin Peaks' was released theatrically in Europe.
How and when a movie is released is usually done based on how the brass think profits will be maximized.
Never defend crap with "It's just a movie"
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Haha so everybody with a basic knowledge of the movie business should automatically know when The Ewok Adventure is released on the cinema or not outside of America? Wow, so you were born into this world knowing that then, yeah?
shareThe pilot episode of 'Twin Peaks' was released theatrically in Europe.
Or South Africa, i remember watching it at the movie theatre in South Africa.
I have a Dutch poster that says it was released here (Netherlands) in theatres
beginning july, 4th, probably 1985.
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Yeah, its like the original Battlestar Galactica. I saw that first in a theater.
I wouldnt be surprised if even Ewok Adventure saw some tiny theatrical release in the US too. Didnt happen where I lived though and we were one of the test screening towns for alot of stuff.
Must have looked pretty dodgy in cinemas though as it is a full frame 1.33:1 movie (4:3) and most theatres post-early 1970s no longer had the facilities to show this ratio due to widescreen becoming the default flat lens ratio.
So either it was shown the way an Open Matte frame would normally be shown and severely cropped height-wise, or it was printed widescreen with black sidebars to create a 4:3 frame within the picture.
I think it was filmed on 35mm film and converted to 4:3 for TV.
shareWhen it came on TV here in the states I made sure my dad recorded it on our brand new VCR so I could watch it over and over again lol I ended up doing that and actually wore out the tape over the next few years. I made sure that I got it on DVD a few years back when they released it. It's funny to go back and watch it today, you see it so differently as a kid vs an adult.
shareIt was aired on US and Canadian television, but hit the theatres in Europe. I'm not sure about other markets.
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