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I believe a poor download was/is available from Amazon. A Japanese CD may have also been available.
There is nothing currently on Amazon regarding a download. POPEYE was issued on CD by Japan's Think! Records (THCD-126) in 2010 (UPN 4-988044-614420).
The POPEYE LP was originally released on Boardwalk Records. Boardwalk Records was a label founded by Neil Bogart in 1980, after PolyGram acquired his Casablanca Records. Boardwalk folded in 1983, soon after Bogart died. It's unclear who currently owns the Boardwalk masters. One source suggests that Margate Entertainment is the current rights holder, but another suggests that Bogart's sons, who re-started the label as part of The Boardwalk Entertainment Group in 2010 may be the owners.
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I really like my old LP (and CD-R transfer) but would buy an expanded release in a heartbeat, which should include the missing/cut songs from the film (The Hamburger Song) plus the score tracks by Tom Pierson.
I thought, as the film is Disney, maybe Intrada could get this one out, warts and all.
I believe in fairies, I believe in fairies... 
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Sep 9, 2013 - 1:36 AM
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Cliffs71
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"Why was this film a flop?"
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Popeye, in reality, wasn't actually a flop. A bit of a disappointment, maybe, but not an actual flop. It made $60 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. It actually made $6 million in its opening weekend in December 1980, which was pretty impressive for that time. For comparison, 2 years later on nearly the same weekend, Tootsie opened at #1 with $5 million. The real Paramount/Disney disappointment was Dragonslayer, which cost about $18m and made back only about $14m. But for some reason, Popeye has always been unfairly maligned as a bomb, when it was far from it. Popeye's opening weekend per screen average (the average amount each of the 901 screens showing Popeye opening weekend made on the film in 1980 dollars): $7,004 (remember, in 1980 dollars). The amount Riddick just made on each of it's screens in 2013 dollars: $6,010. Adjusted for inflation, Popeye's per screen take on opening weekend was just a hair short of $20,000. That puts it on par with the averages from current film's like Star Trek Into Darkness, Monster's University, and Despicable Me 2 and better than the opening averages of just about everything else this summer short of Iron Man 3, Fast and Furious 6, and Man of Steel. In fact, adjusted for inflation, Popeye made $170 million.
I think an expanded version is a great idea. I picked up a CD of it from a shop a few years back and the instrumental end titles, specifically when it goes to strings for 'He Needs Me' is breathtaking. Something so classically perfect about that part of the cue. It's almost certainly a dodgy release because I don't think the instrumental end credits were included on the album versions. So I would certainly encourage a authorized one.
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I am a big Robert Altman fan, and this film actually fits quite easily into his oeuvre (which features his long, voyeuristic takes and overlapping dialogue), much better than it tends to fill its genre requirements. Indeed, Altman liked a lot of the rougher scratch recordings than the more polished recordings that were being made for the final mix, which is why a lot of the songs sound very spare in the film.
There is a lot about the making of this film and its music in the Robert Altman biography Jumping Off the Cliff by Patrick MacGilligan.
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I am a big Robert Altman fan, and this film actually fits quite easily into his oeuvre (which features his long, voyeuristic takes and overlapping dialogue), much better than it tends to fill its genre requirements.
I think that's as good a desciption as any of the reason for its box-office results. I think my personal disappointment with it has lessened with repeated viewings, knowing now what I do about Altman's style.
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The casting was good and I expected much better with Disney's involvement. It just doesn't do it's source material any favours. The songs were not that good and it didn't play like the old cartoon classics, something that could be put right today.
But I too visited the location whilst on holiday in Malta. It's a great standing set. The tiny beach is lovely though seemed to attract garbage being washed up when I was there. There was a little cinema showing making of materials, but little spark as regards showing the classic cartoons too which seems an obvious thing. The same could be said of the attached amusement park. It may be better now, as I went around 20 years ago.
It is advertised as a place to visit, and I too remember the church tower in the distance as we approached.
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HEY VARESE!!!
CAN YOU HEAR ME!??!!!
WE HEAR YOU!!!
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE!!!!
So they released a new LP edition recently with some additional score tracks.
Any chance of going the whole hog and getting a Deluxe CD edition out containing the LP and film versions of ALL the songs plus ALL the score tracks?
Eh? Eh?
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