Word: outgross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potatoes and gravy." His first four postwar features-Make Mine Music, Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...
...language version of one movie is strictly a moneymaking device. The German market for U.S. films is booming (yearly net for Hollywood: about $5,000,000). But, explains Preminger, pictures with a German-language sound track usually outgross the U.S. products, and one of the reasons is that "the German people would rather have even mediocre pictures in their own tongue than dubbed American pictures." Dubbing German dialogue into The Moon Is Blue would have cost Preminger about $6,000. But he calculated that the cost of importing a small German cast and making the German version (about...