Whether it’s due to bad reviews, people not just showing up to watch, or other factors, what happens afterwards behind the scenes when a film tanks?
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I’m not sure if this has been addressed already but movie accounting is notoriously opaque and movies that are purported to have lost a ton of money (Water World being an example off the top of my head) have later been said to make money.
There’s a book called the Hollywood Economist that goes into this to a greater detail.
As to talent, Hollywood is a fickle place and rife with stories about actors and directors being in “movie jail” after a flop. Joe Carnahan is a director who made an indie darling called Narc (which you should watch) in the early auguries. He made a few more movies, including the A-Team (which you probably watched and forgot about). The last I heard he had written the remake of Death Wish. Not quite in Hollywood jail but he doesn’t seem to have the same clout as he did before (judging by the Hollywood pecking order)
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