Word: megahit
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Many critics agree that Shakespeare was a fine playwright. Of his plays, many of the same critics praise Hamlet in particular. But this megahit does feature two flat characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who appear, fawn sycophantically over everything that moves, and then disappear, apparently to die horribly for no particular reason...
...around a racetrack in Days of Thunder, $65 million to launch Arnold Schwarzenegger into outer space for Total Recall, $70 million to help Bruce Willis save a besieged airport in Die Hard 2. The industry would pay any price, detonate any explosion, inflate any body count to meet its megahit expectations...
...moment's silence, please, for the late great Eddie Murphy, wild child in the promised land of superstardom. Now missing and presumed dead, the bold young adventurer was last seen in the 1984 megahit Beverly Hills Cop. Though a figure billed as "Eddie Murphy" has been spotted flitting through the underbrush of a variety of dismal movies since then, it seems likely that he is being played by a stunt double. Or possibly a stunted double...
...averaged $35.25, compared with $32.90 the previous year. Top prices reached $60 a head. Even so, attendance increased as the season wore on, boding well for next year's box-office returns. Observes George Wachtel, head researcher for the League of American Theaters and Producers: "Rather than having one megahit, you had a number of shows that have, as they say in the business, 'legs...
Made for just $2.5 million, House Party has won positive reviews and healthy box office, earning more money per screen than the megahit The Hunt for Red October. Most important to Hudlin and his older brother Warrington, who produced it, House Party appeals to the people it is about. "There's a theater two blocks from our house in Harlem," Reginald says, "and kids come out narrating the plot to their friends and get back in line. It's nice to provide an experience that you wanted when you were that...