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Look Whos Talking
Posted on 4/29/17 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 4/29/17 at 3:33 pm
This movie remains one of the strangest anomalies/success stories in movie history...John Travolta before QT resurrected his career to superstardom again, Kirstie Alley and Olympia Dukakis.
In 1989, Look Whos Talking was the #4 highest grossing film of the year, finishing behind only Batman, Indiana Jones and Lethal Weapon 2.
Budget: $7,500,000 (estimated)
Gross: About $300 million (141 million (USA); $157 million internationally)
Look Whos Talking was the most profitable release ever for Tristar Pictures, surpassing even hits such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Basic Instinct."
It's a talking baby!
What other movies were similarly low budget, low cast, major profit that doesn't make much sense.
In 1989, Look Whos Talking was the #4 highest grossing film of the year, finishing behind only Batman, Indiana Jones and Lethal Weapon 2.
Budget: $7,500,000 (estimated)
Gross: About $300 million (141 million (USA); $157 million internationally)
Look Whos Talking was the most profitable release ever for Tristar Pictures, surpassing even hits such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Basic Instinct."
It's a talking baby!
What other movies were similarly low budget, low cast, major profit that doesn't make much sense.
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Posted on 4/29/17 at 3:38 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Most of Tyler Perry's movies have a huge profit margin even though they don't make much at the box office. Madea movies apparently cost about $75 to produce.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 3:44 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Deep Throat
Posted on 4/29/17 at 3:58 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Bruce Willis made that movie, as he was just coming off Die Hard. To go from John McClane to a talking baby was genius. Really showed his range.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 7:07 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
That movie spawned sequels and a sitcom. Mind boggling.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 8:31 pm to biglego
The Blair witch project
Posted on 4/29/17 at 8:38 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Napoleon Dynamite made a few bucks
Posted on 4/29/17 at 9:03 pm to drexyl
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Deep Throat
It's a nice story before VHS, but an urban legend. Porn theaters were considered a blight on society and started getting torn down...there was no VHS. And because of that...there's no way it had grossed $600 million. There was no access.
We're talking about a movie that was released in 1972, banned in half the country and generally exhibited in one theater at a time even in the biggest cities, such as New York and Los Angeles.
The No. 1 mainstream movie of the 1970s, by the way, was "Star Wars." To date, its domestic theatrical gross is $461 million. You want to tell me that "Deep Throat" has sold more tickets than "Star Wars"?
One credulous report in the New York Times recently attributed the lofty gross enjoyed by "Deep Throat" to "videocassette and DVD sales and rentals." Unfortunately, home video players didn't even appear on the market until two years after the movie's release, and didn't become a mass-market device until after 1990. (In 1985, the average price of a home VCR still exceeded $600.)
As it happens, I believe I have tracked the inflated estimate for "Deep Throat" to its first known source. It's Linda Lovelace herself -- or rather Linda Boreman, to use the family name she returned to before her accidental death in 2002.
According to Mike McGrady, a former Newsday columnist who co-wrote two autobiographies in which she chronicled a life of abuse by the husband who forced her into the porn business, she gave him the figure and he put it in the books.
In 1981, Pussycat Theaters, an X-rated franchise in Los Angeles that screened the movie for 10 years straight, placed its L.A. gross over that period at $6 million -- and that included money attributable to pictures with which it shared a double bill.
Posted on 4/29/17 at 9:36 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I wana see someone remake look whos talking just so everyone can see the sperm scene in 3D
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