Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

The Sundowners was a financial failure in the United States, which Zinnemann blamed on the film's marketing as a newer version of From Here to Eternity.

The film's unprecedented $ 44-million cost ( equivalent to about $ 122 million as of 2012 ) and poor performance at the box office ($ 3, 484, 331 gross in the United States ) generated more negative publicity than actual financial damage, causing Transamerica Corporation, United Artists ' corporate owner, to become anxious over its own public image and withdraw from film production altogether.

In the aftermath of the film's poor financial performance, Troma experienced financial hardship, jettisoning the company from the Hollywood mainstream.

Close Encounters was released in November 1977 to critical and financial success, grossing out $ 337, 700, 000 of the film's $ 20 million budget.

The film's production was canceled in around the end of 2000 due to legal and financial issues.

However, due to the new film format and the film's release during the great depression the film would go onto become a financial failure at the box office.

Jack Shaheen, a critic of Hollywood's portrayal of Arabs, believes that " the studio feared financial and possibly political hardships if they made the film's hero Arab ", and claimed that " If no attempt is made to challenge negative stereotypes about Arabs, the misperceptions continue.

it was a financial disappointment, but it did earn enough to cover the film's budget.

However, he was given an attractive financial package for appearing in Jaws 2 ; he quadrupled his base salary from the first film, and negotiated points ( a percentage of the film's net profits ).

Although the screenplay, written by Christine Conradt, was completed, a financial conflict between Deodato and the film's producer led to the project's cancellation.

In extreme cases, a single film's poor performance can push a studio into bankruptcy or equivalent financial ruin, as happened with RKO Pictures ( The Conqueror ), United Artists ( Heaven's Gate ), Carolco Pictures ( Cutthroat Island, once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of all time ), Fox Animation Studios ( Titan A. E.

Southern's tenuous financial position was in contrast to that of his creative partners, who became wealthy thanks to the film's commercial success.

Show Boat proved to be a financial success and, had the loan not been called for repayment until after the film's release, the Laemmles would have been able to repay the loan and retain ownership of their film production company.

In comparison with the film's $ 40 million budget, the film was a financial success.

Despite the film's financial disaster, critical response for Looney Tunes: Back in Action was mixed to positive, making it more critically successful than the previous Looney Tunes film Space Jam.

The film's protagonist is Harold Shand ( Bob Hoskins ), an old-fashioned 1960s-style London gangster who in the late 1970s is aspiring to become a legitimate businessman, albeit with the financial support of the American Mafia, with a plan to redevelop the then-disused London Docklands as a venue for a future Olympic Games.

" Anschutz countered that Cussler's behavior played a big role in the film's financial woes.

The Hagen character was originally intended to have been featured in The Godfather Part III, but was written out because of a financial disagreement between Duvall and the film's producers.

He was scheduled to begin shooting his adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, Moth Smoke in early 2010, but the project was postponed after the film's financial backers pulled out.

The film was considered a financial failure as the film's earnings were lower than its $ 62 million budget.

Under pressure, Eisenstein blamed Mary Sinclair's younger brother, Hunter Kimbrough, who had been sent along to act as a line producer, for the film's problems.

There were problems with the censors at the Hays Office over the film's subject matter.

Though the cast ultimately proved to be one of the film's greatest strengths, Friedkin had problems with casting choices from the start.

" He compared the film's budget problems to the even more serious problems of We're No Angels that commonly go unmentioned, and he went on to declare its difficulties as a mixture of " trade press " still being upset about Gilliam's battle with Universal over Brazil, nepotism, and an intrigue on behalf of Ray Stark successfully trying to have Puttnam removed from Columbia, coupled with the fact the studio was being sold at the time:

Pauline Kael had problems with the chemistry between the three lead actors: " Murray is the film's comic mechanism ...

Some photographers also have problems with scratching of the film's emulsion when using this method.

In Carry On At Your Convenience ( 1971 ) he played Vic Spanner, the obnoxious shop steward central to the film's trade union and industrial problems storyline and rival in the film's romantic sub-plot.

Due to problems with creditors, Bronston had to shut down production and the project was taken over by Superior Productions, which included the director Lewis Milestone Bronston filed a lawsuit, and in an out-of-court settlement received 21. 25 % of the film's profits.

The making of the film was dogged by problems ; even before production began, the Actors ' Equity and some of Kelly's descendants protested strongly about the casting of Jagger in the lead role, and about the film's proposed shooting location in country New South Wales, rather than in Victoria, where the Kellys had lived.

Guillory said she was " incredibly proud to be a part of this " and felt " there is no greater motivator than knowing you ’ re going to be squaring off against Milla Jovovich in a cat-suit months after giving birth to twins ;" she also talked about problems with Jill's " boob-ament " mind control device prop during the fifth film's production.

Park Soo-in of The Korea Times found the director's message in the film to be unclear, stating that while the film's title was supposed to symbolize the " overthrow of convention ", this could not " simply be two naked women lying together to show sisterhood or to freely use guns to solve problems ".

The film's problems were further escalated by rising costs.

Due to problems with the film's star, Cher, who thought that Lloyd didn't fit as her onscreen daughter, she lost the role to Winona Ryder.

Dargis, however, had fewer problems with the film's pace and instead felt that Jia's vision was overly insular, " mesmerized " by World Park with only fleeting glimpses of the city beyond.

Since the film's success abroad, most Ghost in the Shell media has been translated and released in English-speaking territories, including the anime series, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, and the United Kingdom's AnimeCentral.

By January 1933, the film's protagonist Robert Elliot Burns – who was still imprisoned in New Jersey – and a number of different chain gang prisoners nationwide in the United States were able to appeal and were released.

Adjusted for inflation, the film's box office is among the highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada.

Before the film's release, a major publicity campaign resulted in photographs and life-sized cardboard figures of Sharon Tate being displayed in cinema foyers throughout the United States ; a concurrent advertising campaign by Coppertone featured Tate.

Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U. S. copyright was restored in 1998, but the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged in Golan v. Gonzales and as Golan v. Holder it was ruled that " In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain.

Baumgarten's is the company that manufactures Plastiklips and other fastening devices ; they constructed displays made of green plastic paper clips shaped into the Star of David to assist with the film's promotion at theaters around the United States.

Audiences in the United States who saw the film began to question the legitimacy of the United States legal system, and in January 1933 the film's protagonist, Robert Elliot Burns, who was still imprisoned in New Jersey, and a number of different chain gang prisoners nationwide in the United States were able to appeal and were released.

Despite the film's lack of home video release directly to consumers in the United States, audio from the film — both the musical soundtrack and dialogue — were made widely available to the public from the time of the film's debut up through the late 1970s.

The nomination also caused protests, this time from pro-Israeli groups in the United States, who objected to the Academy's use of the name " Palestine " on its official website to designate the film's submitting country.

The film contains a ( then rare ) positive representation of the controversial subject of interracial marriage, which historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and was still illegal in 17 states, mostly Southern states, up until June 12 of the year of the film's release, when anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia.

That the United States Library of Congress has declared Duck Soup " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant " is one indication of the film's influence.

The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler " From the Records of The United States Marine Corps ", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers.

The film also served to popularize the then somewhat niche culture of bodybuilding, helping to inspire the fitness craze of the 1980s ; following the film's release, there was a marked increase in the number of commercial gyms in the United States.

In the years following the film's release, hundreds of commercial gyms began appearing across the United States as demand rose for access to weightlifting materials.

His novel Benighted ( 1927 ) was adapted into the James Whale film The Old Dark House ( 1932 ); the novel has been published under the film's name in the United States.

The film's release was limited, and went largely unnoticed in the United States, although it garnered respectable business in foreign markets.

After the aborted one-week run in New York, Cimino and United Artists pulled Heaven's Gate ; Cimino wrote an open letter to the studio that was printed in several trade papers blaming unrealistic deadline pressures for the film's failure.

Stock footage was used inasmuch as the United States Air Force declined to cooperate with the film's producers fearful of possible negative publicity from a fictional plot predicated on an inability to positively control its forces.