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I'd say that's about right.

Thing is, no-name actors can *very* rarely make successful movies - they can make movies with followings and such, but won't make 400 million at the box office...

I guess that's why it's so hard to make a lot of money off your movie, period. ;D
 
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I'd say generally speaking it is a good idea to have an A LISTER attached but I still stand on it not guaranteeing anything. Bad movies are bad movies. Good films are good films. The Jurassic Park films do not have A LISTERS attached and they reap serious cash.

Take a film like MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING that cost 24 Million (including Marketing) and it went on to do : $368,744,044 Worldwide.

If I had my choice? An A LISTER would be in it; but nothign is absolute.
 
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Jurassic Park had Spielburg... A-list director... good enough...

My big fat greek wedding was an anomaly... a freak of the standard cinematic business machine... Blair Witch was another... there are a few of these, but if you look at standard movies, an a-list actor is what makes it money... there's hundreds of them made every year... look at a movie like tomb raider... angelina jolie totally made that movie WAY more money than if it was some no-name actress...

You can see that the top actors make the movies money on a regular basis... there are always exceptions to everything though...
 
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i think its all about how much people want to have sex with/be like the main star/starlete in the particular roll they are playing, in whatever film they are in.
 
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[quote author=Rich Lee link=board=movies;num=1096437205;start=15#25 date=09/30/04 at 23:40:20]i think its all about how much people want to have sex with...[/quote]

You've just cleared up my love for the movie "Gia". I can now move on further enlighted and put that movie behind me finally ;D
 
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[quote author=Rich Lee link=board=movies;num=1096437205;start=15#25 date=09/30/04 at 23:40:20]i think its all about how much people want to have sex with/be like the main star/starlete in the particular roll they are playing, in whatever film they are in. [/quote]


I think there is far more truth in those words than you might think ;)
 
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I'm digging it. Sometimes it's not only what you wish for but how one can relate to character.

by the way, has anyone seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch? :D
 
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"I think there is far more truth in those words than you might think ;)"

yeah man...i think you could break down the A-listers career based on how much chick/guys wanted to bag him/her, and guys/girls wanting to be him/her, and how it realates to his box office performance....take eyes wide shut, what chick wants to screw a guy, who cant get his wife off and is basicly a loser and resorts to seeing prostitutes? and what guy wants to be like that? nothing sexy/apealing about it all. A-list failer...the only reason he did that movie was because it had Kubrick, anyone else and they would have gone..."this movie is SHITE!"

ok, i might be talking out my ass...i just came off a long ass shoot....hanvt eatin anything, and am kinda dizzy. and i have a van load of shite to unload.

peace out beeeatch's!
 
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That's true, but you also have the hot chick that poses very nude in the film and all the guys want to bang... balances out...
 
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