From ``Blade Runner'' and ``Battlefield Earth'' to ``Star Trek'' and ``Star Wars,'' there is a long and impressive roster of science fiction movies and television series that the fans have eagerly embraced -- when critics venomously did not -- and turned into enduring hits.

Now, for popular motion picture and television actress Chase Masterson -- and other prominent figures in the world of science fiction films and film making -- the striking bestseller launch of the special DVD edition of ``Battlefield Earth'' -- the movie based on L. Ron Hubbard's 6,500,000 copy world-wide bestselling science fiction novel -- demonstrates once again that what makes a movie a memorable hit is the fans not the critics.

Masterson, star of the upcoming feature film ``Sammyville,'' says that ``fans always hold the final say in what determines a successful movie.'' Noting the continuing strong sales of the DVD edition of ``Battlefield Earth'' -- savagely attacked by reviewers in its theatrical release last year -- a star of one of television's biggest sci-fi series adds emphatically: ``The proof is with the fans.''