I have listed this in the late 1970s, the movie Toomorrow was indeed shown in at least Spain and Japan. It was shown on Spanish TV in 1979 I believe.
The cover for the 2014 releases CD back cover and DVD release front cover features the 1979 movie poster from Spain rather than the original 1970 one. Toomorrow isn’t in fact the first movie that Olivia appeared in - that honour belongs to Funny Things Happen Down Under from 1965.
Olivia became much more relaxed about Toomorrow as time went on than this article implies.
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SUPERSTAR Olivia Newton-John is fuming over the re-release of her first movie, which was made 10 years ago.
The film, Toomorrow, about a pop group of the same name in contact with alien creatures, was a box-office disaster when first shown.
But it has recently opened in the Far East and has also been bought by Germany, Holland and Spain because of Olivia’s incredible following there.
And, of course, the film will also be sold to exhibitors in the U.S.
“The distributors are just jumping on the bandwagon of my success,” said Olivia, whose link-up with John Travolta in Grease has always been billed as her first movie and acting debut.
“It was a terrible film when I made it and it’s a terrible film now. I don’t see any reason for its re-release.”
The group Toomorrow, in which a pigtailed, 21-year-old Olivia was partnered by three other discoveries, was created by rock entrepreneur Don Kirshner, who hoped to repeat his success in propelling The Monkees to the top of the pop charts.
Kirshner teamed up with Harry Saltzman, the man behind the James Bond movies, but the film Toomorrow, made in the swinging London of the late sixties, bombed and the group’s records were never smash hits.
“It was a stage of my career when I was still learning,” said Olivia. “It was before I came to America and I was still struggling to be a success in Britain”.
“The film is very dated and I don’t think it will interest movie goers very much today.”
And under the terms of her original contract, Olivia, who made more than $2 million from her role in Grease, will not earn a nickel from the return of Toomorrow.