You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.
If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.