Posted on 04/18/2009 6:39:52 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Che dies at the end.
I love a happy ending!
Mark
Are you talking about "Gettysburg?"
This is not the only movie about Che. Two were made back in the late 60s or early 70s. In one Jack Palance played the role of Castro.
Never heard of them either have you.
But would not the earnings also be adjusted to around $9 million? So, Che still loses.
>>>But would not the earnings also be adjusted to around $9 million? So, Che still loses.
Of course it loses, but which hurts you more. Losing 40 million, or losing 100 million ? The studio takes a bath on Che, but it’s not on the same level as with Heavens Gate or Ishtar. The comparison doesn’t hold. And either way, the studio writes it off the taxes as a business loss offsetting more profitable films.
btw, from memory, I think the movie that holds the record for highest rate of return is the Blair Witch Project.
They should make a movie about William Ayers. That movie would be a real bomb.
Most people are horribly unaware of who Che was. I would bet most of the morons parading around in Che tee shirts have no clue about his past. And there is a sizable percentage of people who just don't know who he was period.
It’s not really that big a bomb. The scale and expense of film is so much bigger today. 40 million is the budget for most cheapy teen sex comedies with c-list tv casts and january release dates.
Heaven’s Gate is notorious because it was one of the most expensive films ever made at the time and it’s failure brought down an entire movie studio. The shutter came down and United Artists was dead.
There was no secondary markets, no real home video market to speak of yet. What the flick earned at the boxoffice was it’s total earnings. Studios were ‘all-in’ at the time, privately owned and spending their own money on projects.
The equivalent bomb today would be a film that cost 250-300 million to make, 100 million to market, and had a 3 million opening weekend on its way to a 10 million total gross, with a small indie studio being the sole funder of the project.
Check the credits, this film had a million ‘producers’ which means it got made modern-day hedge style; a few hundred private investors tossing a few hundred grand into the the pot, pre-sold theatrical and distribution rights to 2 seperate studios to defray a few million in budget, but the studios are only on the hook for a few million themselves .. risk is spread so far and wide that no one gets hurt badly.
I dont understand why conservatives cant get films made. The formula is not risky.
It was only released to 39 theaters. The current number one movie is in 3,255. It sickens me that this movie exists, but you can’t say it bombed by measuring the box office haul. It just was never intended to be a wide release.
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