A film can be both a major studio release and a cult film, particularly if despite its affiliation with a major studio, it failed to achieve broad success on either the theatrical or home video markets but was championed by a small number of dedicated film fanatics who seek out lesser-known offerings.

Although Blade Runner was largely unsuccessful in its first theatrical release, it found a viewership in the home video market and became a cult film.

: In the 1970s, the production was re-edited again for its first American theatrical release, on double bills with both Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Treasure Island.

In contrast, the director's cut of Scott's Kingdom of Heaven ( which was a commercial failure in its 2005 theatrical release ) is the true version of the film Scott wanted, nearly an hour longer and has been met with more critical acclaim than the original version.

When it was discovered that the market for alternative versions of films was substantial, the studios themselves began to promote " director's cuts " for a wide array of films, even some where the director already had final cut of the theatrical release.

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

Even Ridley Scott stated on the DVD commentary of Alien that the original theatrical release was his director's cut, and that the new version was released as a marketing ploy.

Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

One MGM release is a barebones edition containing just the theatrical trailer.

This was his UCLA thesis project that also received a theatrical release via Warner Bros ..

Under the terms of the accord, films produced using these funds can only be screened on television 24 months after their theatrical release.

Poster for the U. S theatrical release

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

In the United States, it received a very limited theatrical release in the summer of 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises as The Terror of Godzilla.

The film was given a North American theatrical release in March 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises under the title The Terror of Godzilla.

* The Terror of Godzilla-U. S. theatrical release title.

* Monsters from an Unknown Planet-UK theatrical release title.

In addition, the theatrical release ( and most home video versions ) was accompanied by Marv Newland's short cartoon, Bambi Meets Godzilla.

In the theatrical trailer, included in laserdisc and DVD editions, the scene in which Fuller hands over her angora sweater, is a different take than the one in the release version — in the trailer, she tosses it to Wood in a huff, while the release version shows her handing it over more acceptingly.

Three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York were filmed for a motion picture, but the theatrical release of this project ( The Song Remains the Same ) was delayed until 1976.

In 1983 he graduated with the 57-minute Images of Liberation, which became the first Danish school film to receive a regular theatrical release.

Some musicals films of the decade became successes without receiving a theatrical release, like the first two made-for-television High School Musical films and the web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

It became the highest grossing Bollywood film in Hindi cinema history after its theatrical run and held the record for 7 years till the release of Gadar: Ek Prem Katha ( 2001 ).

In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked to his brother " I never saw a part done so excellent in all my life, for in her acting she has all the simplicity of nature and not the least tincture of the theatrical ".

* Also excluded were several films in the Zane Grey western series, including To the Last Man ( 1932 ), that were licensed to a theatrical reissue distributor at the time of the MCA deal, as well as all the Hopalong Cassidy films purchased by star William Boyd, and are currently under the control of U. S. Television Office, founded by Boyd.

Returning to her theatrical roots, she played the title role in the 1980 British revival of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and later had a lead role in the 1990 revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives.

Many of these shows spawned successful theatrical films as well, most notably Rugrats ( which garnered 3 films ), Spongebob Squarepants ( which has garnered 1 theatrical film and several TV movies ) and Avatar: The Last Airbender ( which garnered both a TV movie and a live-action film ).

Skinny Puppy were noted for theatrical and controversial live performances that blended performance art with music, especially in an ambitious period that spanned their Head Trauma ( 1988 ), VIVIsectVI ( 1988 ), Too Dark Park ( 1990 ), and Last Rights ( 1992 ) tours.

This theatrical experience is reflected in Švankmajer's first film The Last Trick, which was released in 1964.

The rights to most of the films noted here have been retained by their original distributors ( as noted with an * asterisk ), while others are now in the hands of Warner Bros. ( Including all of the Lorimar film productions released by United Artists, 20th Century Fox, almost all of the Lorimar film productions released by Paramount, and the Lorimar film productions released by Warner Bros .) The television rights to The Last Starfighter are owned by Warner, while Universal holds theatrical and home video rights.

Production I. G have been involved in the production of several anime television series, OVA and theatrical films, such as the Patlabor and the Ghost in the Shell series, The End of Evangelion, Blood: The Last Vampire, Blood +, xxxHolic, the FLCL OVA series, and many others.

His last role in a theatrical film was in The Last Starfighter ( 1984 ), in which he portrayed an interstellar con man / military recruiter called " Centauri "; he said that he based his approach to the character of Centauri on that which he had taken to Professor Harold Hill.

) Other books adapted include The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle ( a rare theatrical release ) and Peter Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons the plot though is mainly from Gordon Dickson's The Dragon and the George.

The Rankin / Bass theatrical feature film library ( with the exception of Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July and The Last Unicorn ) is now owned by French production company StudioCanal.

Recently seen on TV as Harry Ramos in the award winning TV docudrama 9 / 11: The Twin Towers ( 2007 ), and as the President of Lehman Brothers in The Last Days of Lehman Brothers ( 2009 ) starring James Cromwell, in theatrical releases he has been seen opposite Woody Harrelson in The Walker ( 2007 ), Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ), and The Whistleblower ( 2010 ) with Rachel Weisz and Legacy with Idris Elba.

Motown briefly returned to feature films with Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, which became Motown's final theatrical feature.

His final theatrical film role was as a dying hospital patient in The Last Good Time ( 1994 ), with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Olivia d ' Abo, directed by Bob Balaban.

An extravagant theatrical production, “ The Last Days of

She starred in 2003 in the Los Angeles theatrical production of " Last of The Honkey Tonk Angels ".

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The demonstration of his power was never flamboyant or theatrical.

Dickens was not for nothing the most theatrical of the great Victorian writers.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Salieri responded to the reprimand by saying that the priest's organ playing displeased him because it was in an inappropriately theatrical style.

The same basic technique was used both at social events, and as theatrical dance in court ballets and at public theaters.

The French noble style was danced both at social events and by professional dancers in theatrical productions such as opera-ballets and court entertainments.

The DVD film was over an hour and half longer than the original theatrical film.

Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of chiaroscuro.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

There was also a book adaptation of the Disney theatrical version, titled Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow and written by Vic Crume.

While originally conceived and edited for American television ( and announced in an advertisement by NBC in the Tuesday, July 9, 1963 issue of The Hollywood Reporter ), the production was re-edited for a British theatrical run before the American television debut.

Titled Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, the British theatrical version was released on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone, and ran during the 1963 Christmas season ( advertised in the January 1964 issue of Photoplay ).

) Shortly after the US theatrical run, it was re-edited yet again for a two-part presentation on Disney's television series in the 1970s, simply omitting the middle segment.

His day-to-day life was the most theatrical thing I had ever seen, ever.

Choreographed by Toni Basil, and lavishly produced with theatrical special effects, the high-budget stage production was filmed by Alan Yentob.

Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise ( later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders ).

Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).