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...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...
...minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II and played a sergeant alongside war hero Audie Murphy in the film To Hell and Back. He has ridden bulls in Oklahoma rodeos, played poker with Clint Eastwood and tossed dice with Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Las Vegas...
...films with an eye toward Oscar will always need Meryl Streep. But the trend of bigger men in bigger movies will continue as long as the international audience pays to see them. In her one blockbuster of the '80s, Out of Africa, Streep took second billing to Robert Redford. And if industry solons grumble when an Eddie Murphy movie makes only $60 million (Harlem Nights) or $80 million (Another 48 HRS), should they cheer when the Streep- Fisher Postcards hits $40 million...
...affecting, down-to-earth movies with characters who have more than one dimension. Big names are no longer a guarantee of a film's success, a development that prompts studio executives to gripe privately that certain stars are overdue for a deep discount, most notably Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Bill Murray, Warren Beatty, Richard Dreyfuss and Nick Nolte. Each commands $3 million to $7 million a movie, but they are simply not attracting enough theatergoers to justify those salaries...
...Fourth of July) receive a cut of ticket sales as opposed to a hefty up-front salary. "If we don't control costs, we won't have much of an industry left," warns Thomas Pollock, head of Universal, whose $40 million- plus Havana died on impact last year despite Redford's starring role. At 20th Century Fox, executives are trying to keep 1991 film budgets below the industry average of $27 million. "We haven't started telling people to walk to the airport," says Fox president Strauss Zelnick, "but we're trying to produce high-quality entertainment at responsible costs...