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Any good Star Wars fan knows the story of how George Lucas was turned down by countless studios before he was able to convince 20th Century Fox to take on what was, by almost all accounts, an outrageous project. And who could blame all those cautious studio executives who passed...
Just ask Susan Sommers. Two years ago, she quit a job as a Milwaukee, Wis., fashion designer to join her fiance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now she sells china, pottery and the odd fur coat on eBay, grossing around $30,000 a month and catering to customers as far away...
So why the staggering $16.1 million in its opening weekend alone (making it the highest-grossing Miramax debut ever)? Why the desperate need to sneak into the cinema on a stolen afternoon--only to run into everyone else in your blocking group? Why the masochistic vertigo of surrendering all your...
While Nash has mastered the cinema verite of violence--kids being torn into by pit bulls, head-to-head collisions of tractor trailers, elephant-on-elephant violence--Nelson's company, Termite Art Productions, has focused on grossing people out (though it also makes programs for PBS). His Busted on the...
$150 million Revenues during the same period for Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda--the first time a top-grossing video game has outearned a top-grossing film