Action Flix / Thrilla in Manila

ACTION FLIX:

This genre run was very lucrative, with an average profit per film of over $521 million. Considering that this genre run included one colossal dud (Oceans Eleven...$13 million profit when I packed that puppy with the top talent...I hope those "stars" burn in hell!), that's pretty good.

Oddities:

I NEVER give points to talent for major genre films...except by mistake. I made such a mistake with Tarantino, my director for "Saving Private Ryan". I left his points in, and that little oops cost me $70 million. Sigh.

I had Eddie Murphy produce, direct, and star in "Shaft"...$31.5 million in cost overruns later, he turned out my second weakest film profit-wise. Note to self: DO NOT let a 3* actor direct a film, nor star in one if I can help it.

Why did "Oceans Eleven" tank??? Top talent, July release, highest number of ancillary contracts of the group...

Maybe I should have added some Groundbreaking F/X - the average profit for Action Flix including Groundbreaking F/X was more than twice the profit of the Flix that didn't.

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Action Flix

THRILLA IN MANILA:

Since I can only support 10 hyperlinked pages using MS Publisher, my last 2 genres experiments will be sharing room with previous genre runs. Sigh.

Anyway, I haven't made many Thrillers before now, so I generally stuck with a basic formula budget that I ripped off of the HM message board somewhere. Next time around, I'll probably throw caution to the wind, and experiment with STV low-budget thrillers, big-budget blockbusters with lots of FX, and bare minimum budget flix packed with as much star power as I can throw in without losing my shirt.

Miscellaneous Tidbits:

Another Best Pic Mogie - yeah!

The thrillers made some surprisingly nice showings at the box office during summer months.

On the other hand, releasing three thrillers in three consecutive months pretty much guaranteed that one would be a loser.

"Yellow Journalism" damn near swept the Mogies - it lost Best Actor and Best Screenplay, but still, not too shabby for $2 mil in pre-Mogie ads!

The worst performers of the bunch were dark, violent thrillers...I probably should have released those in October, playing up on the scary aspects of the films.

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Thrilla in Manila