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Author Topic: Shortest Runs Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 11-27-2003 12:21 PM                        {Can't include URL because of parentheses.} Heaven's Gate (movie) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Heaven's Gate (1981) is a big-budget western movie about the war between land barons and European immigrants in 1890s Wyoming. The biggest Hollywood flop of the 1980s, Heaven's Gate became synonymous for troubled and overbudget film disasters. Directed by Michael Cimino (who got a Golden Raspberry for worst director for this film), the film starred Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Terry Quinn, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe. Cimino had just won an Academy Award for The Deer Hunter, so United Artists had every reason to believe he was creating magic on location in Wyoming. But after months of delays and unforgivable cost overruns, Cimino finally delivered his masterpiece—a 5-hour version of Heaven's Gate. The studio balked and sent him back to recut it to a more managable length. His recut version was still 3 hours and 40 minutes. The Cimino version was pulled from release after only one screening: its premiere in New York City on November 19, 1980. It surfaced six months later with 70 minutes cut by the studio in a desperate attempt to recoup some of its losses, but it was too late. The adverse publicity was largely responsible for a dismal box-office take. The plot of Heaven's Gate is easy enough to follow. The film opens up in 1870 as Kris Kristofferson graduates from Harvard University and makes his way West. This seems to go on forever, and in the end has nothing to do with the rest of the story. The 1890 scenes which take up the bulk of the running time tend to show off Cimino's attempts at cinematic mastery. The epilogue takes place in 1903. Even though Cimino uses subtitles when non-English characters are speaking in their native tongue, some of the English dialogue is totally obscured by blaring music or sound effects. The movie's unprecedented USD$40 million cost literally sent United Artists into bankruptcy and eventual led to its purchase by MGM.  |  IP: Logged Dennis M Dow Jr Expert Film Handler Posts: 141 From: Bloomfield NJ USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 11-27-2003 01:49 PM                       Shortest film I had was Belly..... ran Friday night and then pulled due to Public nuisance ordinance  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-27-2003 04:46 PM                        The Human Stain ran 5 days. I din't recall the total # of people, but it was quite low. Dennis: I *wish* we could pull due to public nuisance. Well, maybe that would actually be a bad thing, we'd likely have to close on Friday eveings due to obnoxious kids.  |  IP: Logged Dennis M Dow Jr Expert Film Handler Posts: 141 From: Bloomfield NJ USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 11-28-2003 03:57 PM                       We had a riot at the theater and the police basically said that we would be liable if it happened again.... called corporate and they said pull it... had dark screen for 6 days  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Cope Master Film Handler Posts: 256 From: Overland Park, KS, United States Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-29-2003 07:08 AM                     I recently read where Francis Ford Coppola pulled "One from the Heart" (1982) after a run of about a week and a half. According to IMDB, its budget was $26M and it made $0.9M. He is now regretting that hasty decision, and it's to be re-released in January 2004, with a prompt DVD release following. This is the movie that broke his Zoetrope Studios. I seem to remember that his lead actress, Teri Garr, worked on a $10,000 salary to do this film.  |  IP: Logged Timothy Eiler Expert Film Handler Posts: 126 From: Litchfield , Minnesota, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-01-2003 02:43 PM                        From a 5-plex drive-in in western minnesota Shortest run ever The Hulk $138 box for the week Longest run was Anger Management Open to close 19 weeks  |  IP: Logged

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