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  • EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK

    Films that lost their stars a fortune

    These actors poured their hard-earned cash back into their own movie projects.

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  • NewsBen Falk

    The 10 most overpaid film roles of all-time

    Each year, Forbes magazine brings out its list of the most overpaid Hollywood actors using a combination of data, weighing up the stars’ salaries against their movies’ financial return.

  • NewsBen Falk

    Empires Of The Deep: The Bonkers True Story Of The ‘Most Expensive’ Unreleased Movie Ever Made

    Four different directors, almost 10 years in the making and costing an alleged £100million, yet ‘Empires of the Deep’, China’s planned answer to ‘Avatar’, remains unreleased. “I think I’m the only one who’s seen it other than the creators,” says actor Steve Polites, who signed a three month contract in 2009 to play the hero of ‘Empires of the Deep’ (and weirdly two other characters), only to find himself still stuck in China nine months later. “[Jon has] a really good heart and the core of a g

  • NewsBen Falk

    Howard The Duck: The story behind the most insane Marvel movie ever made

    Adapted from a cult comic book and exec-produced by George Lucas, the 1986 mega-flop was the first standalone movie starring a Marvel character. Thirty years on, some of the cast explain how they made one of the most derided films in Hollywood history.

  • NewsBen Falk

    The Really Weird Story Behind Marlon Brando’s Legendary Flop The Island Of Dr Moreau

    On the list of Top 10 things you never knew about Marlon Brando, his passion for an algae dietary supplement might come near the top. Originally a low-budget, arty passion project of young, cult director Richard Stanley (above), it became a bloated ego-ridden mess resulting in Stanley’s firing and notorious bad behaviour on the part of Brando and co-star Val Kilmer.

  • NewsThe Wrap

    Why ‘Warcraft’ Can Bomb in US This Weekend and Still Be a Blockbuster

    Legendary and Universal Pictures’ “Warcraft” may bomb this weekend in North America, but it’s doing bang-up business overseas. The video-game movie broke records as it opened Wednesday in China — most notably beating the first-day, non-weekend box office mark held by Disney-Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” by nearly $20 million.

  • NewsVariety

    Disney Expects $75 Million Loss on ‘The Finest Hours’

    UPDATED: Disney CEO Robert Iger said the company expects to take a loss of $75 million on “The Finest Hours,” the sea-going ocean rescue film that opened the year as one of the conglomerate’s few flops. “We also had a miss this quarter,” Iger said at the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet and Telecom Conference. “That will... <a href="https://variety.com/2016/film/news/disney-expects-to-lose-75-million-on-the-finest-hours-1201725537/" title="Read Disney Expects $75 Million Loss on ‘The Finest Hours’