Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jacobson, Harlan

Titel

Hollywood Lays an Egg

Ist Teil von

• Film comment, 1982-05, Vol.18 (3), p.49

Ort / Verlag

New York: Film at Lincoln Center, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1982

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Using Variety's figures as a jumping-off point, out of the blue storms Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner at $25 million; Whorehouse at $26 million; Peter Yates' Krull at $24 million; George Lucas' Revenge of the Jedi, now up to $32.5 million; Henson's Dark Crystal at $26 million; Inchon, the as-yet-unreleased film venture of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, at $46 million; Dino De Laurentiis' production of John Milius' Conan the Barbarian at $20 million; Disney's computer-wars Tron, at $17 million; and, of course, Annie, reportedly now at $52 million and climbing. Richard Attenborough's Gandhi ($22 million); a Soviet-British co-production of Anna Pavlova ($28 million); David Lynch's Dune ($25 million); Cubby Broccoli's 007 Octopussy ($25 million); Superman III ($35 million); Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione's probing look into the affairs of state of Catherine, The Great ($35 million); Evita ($20 million); Amadeus ($25 million); Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America ($22 million); a proposed three-film rendering of The Foundation Trilogy ($30 million); and domestic-television-foreign-theatrical releases of The Florentines ($45 million), Herman Wouk's The Winds of War ($25 million), and Marco Polo ($25 million).