Hollywood's dilemma about posthumous releases: audience's reactions to films distributed after the death of their stars have reflected mixed results. (Entertainment).

USA Today (Magazine) | May 1, 2003| | Copyright

WHEN JAMES DEAN DIED with two movies yet to be released, Warner Bros. Pictures saw catastrophe. Jack Warner bluntly observed, "Nobody will come and see a corpse." He could not have been more wrong. Both Dean films--"Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) and "Giant" (1956)--turned out to be major critical and commercial hits. There is no set pattern as to how an audience will respond to a picture released after the death of its star.

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