I would like to help Ray Bradbury get the movie "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" to the big screen who's with me.

Wonderful idea--how do you plan to do it?

inkky100, I hate to be a pessimist, but the chances of this happening are virtually zero. The film was originally planned by Disney as a direct-to-video release. Then, Ray and director Stuart Gordon were unable to convince Disney to release the film to theaters, despite great audience reaction at various previews. (I attended such a showing in Chicago, and the audience reaction was fantastic.) Also, the film has already been released to video. However, I could not agree with you more...the film is wonderful and deserved a theatrical release. Promoted properly, this is a film that would have attracted adults as well as youngsters, and I think it could have done very well at the box office.

Inkky,
I'm with you. What's your idea??

Hey, has TWICS film ever been on TV yet?

Or on cable, for instance?

I agree. Getting it to the movies is probably nill. After "Something Wicked This Way Comes" bombed from Disney, they actually changed their name to Touchstone. It was at a time the name Disney didn't seem to be magic anymore.....

By the way, dozens and dozens of films with good size budgets line the shelves of the ...room of undisclosed ambitions. Some never even make it even to video. Good grief!

Well I was just thinking here in LA this weekend a friend and I were going to have petition signed by all the people comming to his book signing, Rays book signing and a bunch of others writers will be there also. I was also thinking of doing something like a chain letter.

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Originally posted by Richard:
inkky100, I hate to be a pessimist, but the chances of this happening are virtually zero. The film was originally planned by Disney as a direct-to-video release. Then, Ray and director Stuart Gordon were unable to convince Disney to release the film to theaters, despite great audience reaction at various previews. (I attended such a showing in Chicago, and the audience reaction was fantastic.) Also, the film has already been released to video. However, I could not agree with you more...the film is wonderful and deserved a theatrical release. Promoted properly, this is a film that would have attracted adults as well as youngsters, and I think it could have done very well at the box office.

inkky100

G o f o r i t ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I was thinking of starting with a chain letter email and maybe getting enough names to persuide disney to take a second look.

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Originally posted by dandelion:
Wonderful idea--how do you plan to do it?

Finally saw my brand-new DVD of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit last night, and it's delightful! Almost as good as Something Wicked.

This fillum was so much better than the great majority of rubbish which is released theatrically.

The music was perfect. The fact that there isn't a soundtrack album available doesn't surprise me. I had to do a bit of detective work just to find one of the songs. It's now one of my favourites in my iTunes, and will be on heavy rotation on my iPhone!

It's a fun movie. It occurs to me that a lot of Bradbury adaptations are quite earnest, po-faced. But in the right hands, there is a lot of fun to be had. Stuart Gordon is evidently "the right hands".

Po-faced is a good word(s).

(Usher II, of course, would be Poe-faced.)

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Originally posted by philnic:
Po-faced is a good word(s).

(Usher II, of course, would be Poe-faced.)

LM*AO!

When is the musical version of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit going to be staged again? Best version yet!