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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $18 million. Box office, $4,711,220.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $18 million. Box Domestic box office, $4,711,220.$4,711,220. Ironically, the film actually made double its budget worldwide, but Dino de Laurentiis agreed to too low a percentage of the foreign grosses, thinking its Stateside box-office would make up for it, a gamble which backfired spectacularly.
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* ReferencedBy: A key subplot in ''Film/TheBigHit'' is built around a VHS tape of this film. It's rented by hitman Melvin from a video store, with him getting constant phone calls from the nerdy store clerk about it being overdue.
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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, TBS pulled a scheduled airing of this film (replacing it with the Chevy Chase vehicle ''Funny Farm'') ''solely'' because it opens with a StockFootage recap of the World Trade Center-set climax and denouement of its predecessor.
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* TooSoon: In the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, TBS pulled a scheduled airing of this film (replacing it with the Chevy Chase vehicle ''Funny Farm'') ''solely'' because it opens with a StockFootage recap of the World Trade Center-set climax and denouement of its predecessor.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The movie has not seen another home video release since 2004, and the DVD goes for a lot of money on sites like Amazon and eBay.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: A variation. The distributor wouldn't allow reviewers to show footage on the stations that they worked for. Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert talked about this in their "Worst of 1986" special and even though they complied (despite refusing to sign forms that agreed to this request), still mercilessly trashed the film (Ebert recalled that watching kids at a screening swinging a door in the auditorium around was more entertaining than the film itself).
* SequelGap: Ten years since the previous film.
* SequelGap: Ten years since the previous film.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: A variation. The distributor wouldn't allow reviewers to show footage on the stations that they worked for. Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert talked about this in their "Worst of 1986" special and even though they complied (despite refusing to sign forms that agreed to this request), still mercilessly trashed the film (Ebert -- Ebert recalled that watching kids at a screening swinging a door in the auditorium around was more entertaining than the film itself).
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* SequelGap: Ten years since the previousfilm. film; this is acknowledged in-universe.
* TooSoon: In the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, TBS pulled a scheduled airing of this film (replacing it with the Chevy Chase vehicle ''Funny Farm'') ''solely'' because it opens with a StockFootage recap of the World Trade Center-set climax and denouement of its predecessor.
* SequelGap: Ten years since the previous
* TooSoon: In the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, TBS pulled a scheduled airing of this film (replacing it with the Chevy Chase vehicle ''Funny Farm'') ''solely'' because it opens with a StockFootage recap of the World Trade Center-set climax and denouement of its predecessor.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $18 million. Box office, $4,711,220.
* CreatorKiller: ''King Kong Lives'' sent the career of director John Guillermin off the top floor of the Empire State Building and into a freefall; his projects after this were all on TV.
* CreatorKiller: ''King Kong Lives'' sent the career of director John Guillermin off the top floor of the Empire State Building and into a freefall; his projects after this were all on TV.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/PeterWeller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''{{Film/RoboCop|1987}}'' instead.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: A variation. The distributor wouldn't allow reviewers to show footage on the stations that they worked for. GeneSiskel Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert talked about this in their "Worst of 1986" special and even though they complied (despite refusing to sign forms that agreed to this request), still mercilessly trashed the film (Ebert recalled that watching kids at a screening swinging a door in the auditorium around was more entertaining than the film itself).
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* NotScreenedForCritics: A variation. The distributor wouldn't allow reviewers to show footage on the stations that they worked for. GeneSiskel and RogerEbert Creator/RogerEbert talked about this in their "Worst of 1986" special and even though they complied (despite refusing to sign forms that agreed to this request), still mercilessly trashed the film (Ebert recalled that watching kids at a screening swinging a door in the auditorium around was more entertaining than the film itself).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/PeterWeller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/RoboCop1987'' instead.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/PeterWeller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/RoboCop1987'' ''{{Film/RoboCop|1987}}'' instead.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter Weller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/RoboCop1987'' instead.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter Weller Creator/PeterWeller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/RoboCop1987'' instead.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter Weller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/{{RoboCop}}'' instead.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter Weller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/{{RoboCop}}'' ''Film/RoboCop1987'' instead.
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* NotScreenedForCritics: A variation. The distributor wouldn't allow reviewers to show footage on the stations that they worked for. GeneSiskel and RogerEbert talked about this in their "Worst of 1986" special and even though they complied (despite refusing to sign forms that agreed to this request), still merciless mercilessly trashed the film (Ebert recalled that watching the kids at a screening swinging a door in the auditorium around was more entertaining than the film itself).
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* NotScreenedForCritics: A variation. The distributor wouldn't allow reviewers to show footage on the stations that they worked for. GeneSiskel and RogerEbert talked about this in their "Worst of 1986" special and even though they complied (despite refusing to sign forms that agreed to this request), still merciless trashed the film (Ebert recalled that watching the kids at a screening swinging a door in the auditorium around was more entertaining than the film itself).
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* SequelGap: Ten years since the previous film.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter Weller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/{{RoboCop}}'' instead.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter Weller was offered a part in the film, but he went to do ''Film/{{RoboCop}}'' instead.
