Originally posted by: Sluggo
rancher,
no disrespect, but this sounds like you have seen these scenes in a trailer in the theater and somewhere along the way your memories had these scenes in the movie itself. the problem with the scattered claims of seeing the cut scenes in the theaters is there is no evidence of the scenes ever playing. no bootleg footage, no audio recordings, no confirmations from official sources, no soundtrack releases with extra music that can not be matched to the existing film, nada. it is regrettable, but there is no hard evidence for these scenes to have been seen in the theater.
rancher,
no disrespect, but this sounds like you have seen these scenes in a trailer in the theater and somewhere along the way your memories had these scenes in the movie itself. the problem with the scattered claims of seeing the cut scenes in the theaters is there is no evidence of the scenes ever playing. no bootleg footage, no audio recordings, no confirmations from official sources, no soundtrack releases with extra music that can not be matched to the existing film, nada. it is regrettable, but there is no hard evidence for these scenes to have been seen in the theater.
Nope, never saw any trailers for Empire until the DVD set was released. As for the evidence, I know there isn't any on the net that I could see. That must have been some pretty powerful LSD topping on the popcorn for me to have seen these cuts twice eh?
Could it be that the Paramount in Edmonton got a preview test copy? It's not like Edmonton is some backwater city. Why would it be impossible?
I provided the location, dates and exact times. Maybe the SW higher ups can find something out about this in the future.