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One of the biggest budget movies of the time and who are the stars?

posted 15 years ago by Cojo-Gobar
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Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. Why? They were hardly big box office draws were they? No wonder the movie flopped.

[–] Yorick_Brown 15 years ago

It flopped because it was released in the winter when it should have been a summer release and Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton were stars of two hit franchises respectively by 1997.

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[–] wwcallie 15 years ago

Actually, worldwide it made money so it can't really be called a flop. In the US is was up against the re-release of the Star Wars movies which probably hindered it's box-office and there was a competing Volcano movie coming out the following month called Volcano. I think that also may have caused some confusion among the public. As I recall it actually had a decent opening for a movie opening in February at that time.
And yeh, Brosnan was hot as 007 at the time and Hamilton had done the Terminator movies.

[–] TheSolarSailor 15 years ago

I wasn't aware that this film was a failure. I remember the theater being pretty packed when I saw it.

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[–] Sweet_and_Lowdown77 15 years ago

It was also hurt by Fox's stupid VOLCANO movie.

Pierce Brosnan has already starred in GOLDENEYE and Linda Hamilton had a small film entitled TERMINATOR 2 released 5 1/2 years earlier.

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[–] lylesanford 14 years ago

I believe you're wrong.

Brosnan was one of the most popular actors at the time... owing mostly to the popularity he gained in GoldenEye, his first film as James Bond.

Hamilton, on the other hand, is a bit of a stretch. I won't say she was irrelevant when this movie arrived, but I wouldn't call her a major star.

As is with most movies, one actor and one actor alone (typically an A-lister) carries the film by themselves... with nothing more than a mildly identifiable support cast. In this movie, Brosnan is 100% of the star power.

[–] ozzmosiz 14 years ago

Hardly a flop, it cost $116 million (production costs) to make and took $178 million worldwide at the box office.

Normally you take half the total box office to get what the studio takes back as a general rule (since 1999), before that I believe it was closer to 60%.

That makes 60% of 1788 is $106 million back, net loss of $10 million. Include rentals, dvd/video sales and TV rights, this easily made a profit, and that would include taking into consideration promotional costs which are excluded from production costs.