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Big films that never get shown

  • 08-08-2002 1:05am
    #1
    The Gopher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭


    Despite the fact they are some of the most talked about films today how come the Godfather trilogy and the Star Wars films have never been on tv as far as i can remember anyway?Not terrestrial tv anyway.Its a bit odd aint it?They were popular films(with the exception of the much maligned Godfather 3,i wanna see how bad it REALLY was:D )so theyd get huge ratings.Whats up?


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  • #2
    Johnny_the_fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Johnny_the_fox


    Both the Godfather and star wars have been on terrestrial TV*

    Star wars was on tv one christmas about 10 years ago and Godfather was on tv just a few months ago.



    *BBC, ITV, C4, C5... dont know about RTE ....


  • #3
    Makaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    You used to be guaranteed a Star Wars film every Christmas, then they stopped showing them.
    The Godfather trilogy has been shown aswell, last time it was shown was on satellite, eh, what do you call it Sky Cinema? The one that shows all the old films.


  • #4
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    Even with Episodes 1 and 2 of Star Wars released in the cinema no channels screened eps 4-6 which is very surprising as there's now a whole generation of new fans who wouldn't have seen them before. I'm presuming the costs of showing them was raised or it was even prohibited by Lucas or sth until the first 3 have been released. Anyone know anything about this?


  • #5
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,537 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Is it possible Sky poached the TV rights to Eps. 4-6?

    I remember a few months ago, they used to show the trilogy every second day on one of their Premier Channels.....

    - Dave.


  • #6
    Pugsley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    And Aliens is never on at all now, which is my fave film ever :o


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  • #7
    Spiffing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Spiffing


    Originally posted by Pugsley
    And Aliens is never on at all now, which is my fave film ever :o

    Because Alien is better. :p


  • #8
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    i think aliens was on channel 4 within the last year.


  • #9
    Saruman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    I never watch terrestrial TV any more since i got sky but i do remember Alien, Aliens and a load of Star Wars being shown all the time... especially what i noticed is RTE and BBC would show them withing days of each other...

    Look at Jurassic Park.. took almost a year to get to video... 2 or 3 to get to sky digital and 3-4 to get to terrestrial and i think i noticed it once or twice at most since then...


  • #10
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    Aliens has been on both TV3 and TG4 in the last few months


  • #11
    Makaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    Actually TG4 show a lot of oldish films.
    Over the past year they have shown a couple of Arnie films and a few others I cant remember.
    If only they advertised Tg4 more on RTE I would get to see more of the films they show.


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  • #12
    Winters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    Originally posted by Johnny_the_fox
    Both the Godfather and star wars have been on terrestrial TV*

    Star wars was on tv one christmas about 10 years ago

    And i have it on tape :D .. it was on some time around 1985 or something on RTE1.... its really funny to watch cos there are ads for really bad stuff .. like the Ford Grenada and stuff... Oh yea.. and the 80s clothes are always worth a laugh..


  • #13
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    haven't ITV got the rights for episodes 4 - 6 of Star Wars. i saw an ad a while back saying they were going to be shown soon. probably after the Summer*. my guess is September or October


    *what Summer?


  • #14
    Johnny Gomez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭Johnny Gomez


    About 2 and half weeks ago I was flipping through the Rte guide and it said that in the coming months RTE will be showing the Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars Episodes 1,4,5,6 and some other "exclusive" movies.:D


  • #15
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    sky movies used to have them on ina row everyday
    phantom menace being on twice a day


  • #16
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Originally posted by TmB
    Is it possible Sky poached the TV rights to Eps. 4-6?

    20th Century Fox being the film company behind the Star Wars movies and BskyB being affilliated with Fox...

    ... yeah ... that's possible....

    possible that they had *exclusive* rights for a while... I guess...


    ... possible... but unlikely.


  • #17
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Actualy, it's Lucas.
    You'll also notice that you can't readily buy star wars video's eaither.
    They're usually released "For A Limited Time Only".
    It's a way of maximising sales.
    Disney do they same thing.


  • #18
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by Bard
    possible that they had *exclusive* rights for a while... I guess...


    ... possible... but unlikely.

    The odd thing is that when Sky ran their "Top (whatever) - 3000 at last count Movies of the Millennium" (which for some reason only contained movies for the last 100 years, can't understand that myself) Titanic and Star Wars were the top 2. They showed Titanic as part of the season but didn't bother showing Star Wars. Or most of the rest of the top 20 that they didn't have rights to.

    Fox officially just distributed all but the first didn't they?


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