howard@garfield.UUCP (Howard . Campbell) (11/27/84)
Hello, net-people, Dune is coming!
Actually, that's old news, but the following isn't. ( I hope! )
DUNE is to be released in 1700 theatres world-wide on Dec. 14.
The magazine Forbes ( Nov. 5 issue - bi-weekly from someplace in NYC )
has a multipage article ( with several informative and 2001-word
colour shots; written by Tom O'Hanlon name "Billion Dollar Flick" )
on the film as well as a pair of pages on Frank Herbert and his famous book.
And, if you are as lazy as I am, here are some multi-byte information chunks:
The Director is Dino de Laurentis's 30 year old daughter
and DdL is producing the picture.
The whole thing costs about US$ 40m, with a similar amount
being thrown in for promotion, distribution and advertising.
It will be more than two hours long, it required 70 sets and 35
dialogue segments.
Ten (yes, 10!) subsequent pictures will be released in the following
18 months. ( I expect there may be a misprint here, but exactly what
the movies are to be about is not stated, I suppose one is expected
to infer that they'll all be Dune sequels, or related somehow.
Perhaps some crap for TV? )
Currently, 5 soundstages have been built in Wilmington, North Carolina,
with 7 more to come. ( So many!! So much Money!! )
Remember, if you want more, see the above mentioned magazine. It's an
interesting article. You'll likely find it in any public library, I expect.
( I stumbled on it in our university library. )
Howard
Campbell
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Memorial University of Newfoundlandreiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (11/30/84)
A few inaccuracies here. David Lynch ("Eraserhead", "The Elephant Man") is
the director, not Rafaella de Laurentiis, who is the producer. She previously
produced "Conan the Barbarian", and stories from the set indicate that she is
an active line producer, not a figurehead.
$40million for the production may be a slight exaggeration. The $40 million
for distribution almost certainly is.
The "10 films in 18 months" almost certainly refers to the total output of
De Laurentiis' new studio in North Carolina (strange but true). Michael
Cimino is, at this very moment, filming "The Year of the Dragon" (a film about
Chinese tongs) there, and suffering from an acute shortage of Oriental extras.
As the output of the studio, 10 films might be an overestimate, but it wouldn't
surprise me too much if they managed it. Of course, many of the films will be
cheap trash.
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Peter Reiher
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