Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this month they agreed to pay Arnold Schwarzenegger $25 million to appear as Mr. Freeze, the villain in the next Batman installment. Some executives are complaining that Warner is compounding the cost problem. Daly says the deal makes sense because Schwarzenegger's presence will boost the film's grosses, particularly overseas. Arnold is also taking "a lot less" of the film's gross profits than usual--he generally gets up to 20%--as well as a reduced share in profits from Batman-related merchandise. The studio already has $50 million in guarantees from licensees. "Arnold will make more money...
...settle. In 1974 he went to the mattresses with Universal Studios over his share of profits for writing Earthquake. The experience probably explains why Bobby Bantz, LoddStone's second in command, is a fulsome repository of foul behavior and slippery business practices. Among them is the willfully complicated gross-and-net game that fattens those on top and leaves naive scriptwriters out of pocket. Puzo takes his vendetta to comic climax when a novelist turned LoddStone hack has to kill himself to get his money. That he sets aside his multiple suicide notes for a rewrite is the sort...
...course, if ever you get bored of the special effects and Fox turning around in surprise and wiping his nose, there's always a mildly offensive stereotypical character (one of Bannister's ghost friends) or a gross, gratuitous blood-bath thinly hidden by quick camera cutting...
According to its IPO prospectus, the 14 units Planet Hollywood opened last year averaged revenues of $14.3 million each. Its restaurant at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, claims the world's highest gross, at $45 million in 1995, its first year. Revenues are expected to top $50 million this year...
...cheerful attitude. And at least heroic speeches are better than the facetious emotion of Schwarzeneggar's thumping his chest in "Eraser" and declaring that the real "you" is "in heah." Here is one movie that, with "Forrest Gump" innocence, will not make you furious when its box office gross exceeds the GNP of one or two small nations...