Film: My World Of Flops: Leap Before You Look Case File #6: The Frighteners
When contemplating—or, more likely, mourning—the unimaginable budgets given the Michael Bays and Jerry Bruckheimers of the world, it’s instructive and reassuring to recall that folks like Sam Raimi, Christopher Nolan, and for the purposes of this Case File especially, Peter Jackson are regularly given budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars to work out personal visions that just happen to resonate with moviegoers and critics all over the world.
A filmmaker like Christopher Nolan is not given $250 million to make Inception or The Dark Knight Rises as an act of goodwill. The studio isn’t doing ...
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