Word: ishtars
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...rich lately was when he played 007 one more time. As for the leading man, Kevin Costner, his most memorable movie turn was as the corpse in The Big Chill. So there's no way this film is going to make back its $25 million tab. It will be Ishtar without the camel...
...movie Ishtar features arid Moroccan dunes, so it may seem appropriate that its studio, Columbia Pictures, is thirsting for box-office receipts. In its first 19 days, Ishtar grossed $11.6 million, trading on the presence of Superstars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. That sounds good, but the film cost $45 million or more to make...
...last week Ishtar's ticket sales trailed even the inane Ernest Goes to Camp and were not in the same class as Beverly Hills Cop II ($71.6 million in 16 days) and The Untouchables ($3.3 million in its first two). One consolation: Columbia hopes to recover part of its costs from sales of overseas, cable and videocassette rights...
...have their overproduced action sequences and devour them satirically too. But May is a writer of scripts that are all sneaky asides, no obvious zingers allowed. She is not one to let her voice be drowned out by either a lot of exploding hardware or the buzz about Ishtar's delays and cost overruns. One finally cannot resist warming to a movie in which people are astonished to find out that Gaddafi is the name of a man not a country but are strangely gratified to learn that vultures, like tyro songwriters, work "on spec." And that contains, above...
Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star in a road picture like the old Hope- Crosby comedies. Ishtar is funny, but its $40 million cost...