Early word on The Island of Doctor Moreau suggested a movie in a constant state of chaos, all a result of Kilmer’s behavior. There was also a time when Kilmer’s on-set antics were perfect tabloid fodder. The Bad Buzz: There was a time when Val Kilmer was making $6 million a movie. None of Costner’s later lead roles would eclipse Waterworld’s box office. Now they apologize.”), Roger Ebert called the movie “decent.” With a final cost of around $175 million, Waterworld walked out of theaters with $88.2 million domestic gross, and worldwide totals/home video helped the film eventually turn a profit.
After poking fun at the film’s budget issues (“In the old days in Hollywood, they used to brag about how much a movie cost. The Results: Reviews of Waterworld couldn’t help but reference the controversy. Times described the shoot as “‘extremely difficult,’ ‘chaotic’ and ‘out of control,’” while budget numbers suggested that Waterworld “could end up costing more than any movie ever made.” The Bad Buzz: Throughout its 1994 shoot, whispers of escalating costs and feuding between star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds ( Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) made their way off the set. Will World War Z prevail? The modern movie era has seen mixed results: Woes become distant memories to critics and audiences, turning them into success stories. The mythologizing of their hellish productions are washed away by what they deliver. On Friday, he took to Deadline to refute rumors of his on-set tension with Pitt and explain the ever-changing script.įor every Cleopatra, which nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox in 1963, or Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, a movie that was equally lethal for United Artists in 1980, there is a Jaws (and its constantly malfunctioning shark) or a Star Wars (Tunisian weather and a faithless crew) or an Apocalypse Now (the wild demands of Francis Ford Coppola). Even as the film opens, director Marc Forster is busier playing cleanup than discussing the merits of the movie. Each misstep became a news item, adding more to the already deafening cries of disaster. Intensifying the problematic shoot was the scrutiny of prospective audiences.
Rewrites, reshoots, on-set quarrels, and the seizure of gun props by a Hungarian anti-terrorist squad were just a few of the hurdles World War Z faced while in production. Michael Straczynski a “genre-defining piece of work”) barely made it to theaters in one piece. A June 2013 Vanity Fair feature put it all on the table: What began as a promising zombie tentpole ( Ain’t It Cool News called an early version of the script by J. World War Z arrives this weekend after a reportedly disastrous production. Anyone who has ever worked on a Hollywood blockbuster knows this doubly so. “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Anyone who has ever worked on a movie knows Murphy’s Law to be true. Pictures’ action/sci-fi feature “Terminator Salvation.” CHRISTIAN BALE stars as John Connor in Warner Bros.