Dozier did not cave in to Adam's demands. Adam got $100,000 for the feature film, but certainly no second film out of it.

Burt was paid $35,000.

Bob Furmanek wrote:I don't have the full document but this internal memo from March 3, 1966 is quite interesting:

Wow. Just wow.

Bob Furmanek wrote:As far as the feature preceding the series, the first mention of Batman in Variety is:

Greenway's 'Batman' To Air Over ABC-TV
Published Date: August 25th, 1965

Wow, there you go. So apparently they were looking at it as a mid-season replacement before the movie. Good research, again, Bob!

Bob, if someone can't accept the truth (even if it's painful), the problem lies in their hands--not in yours as the messenger. On to the question posed by epaddon: "It again has me wondering if it was a bad idea to have done the film to begin with." Wasn't the point of making the movie to...

While Bat-merchandise was selling at a fever pitch, audiences were cooling to the Caped Crusader. The BATMAN feature premiered in Texas on July 30, 1966 and opened nationwide in August. According to Boxoffice magazine, the movie only performed slightly above average in twenty key cities. With a 100...

Great research, QQ!

And no, I hadn't even heard of it before your post.

Sigh

My pleasure and I"m happy to share the information. Now that we've busted the myth about the Liberace episode, here's another I'd like to tackle: The report that NBC was interested in a 4th season but the sets had been taken down. I can find no mention of this in Variety. Does anyone know when...

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