Do you think that any networks will start to put 70 min. plus TV pilots in the cinema with cinema digital distribution & digital projection happening more and more now? Maybe a double feature of a film you paid to see and an upcoming TV series pilot without commercials as the double feature?the original Battlestar Galactica.
...back in 1978. They even released the original pilot TV movie to theatres - that's where I first saw it, months before it aired on TV.
I would have loved to see the pilots for
Fringe & Alias in the cinema with an audience. JJ Abrahams really knows how to turn a pilot into a almost-feature film.