Very occasional musings of several not-so-recent Harvard grads as they embark on their chosen careers and adjust to no longer being single.
18 August 2004
Speaking of Tom Cruise, word is that his upcoming Steven Spielberg-helmed adaptation of War of the Worlds is set to become the most expensive movie ever made, with a budget slated to top the $200 million spent on Titanic. Sources also state, rather improbably, that Cruise and Spielberg will each be entitled to 20% of the box office gross, which, by my reckoning, means that the movie would need to gross upwards of $1 billion worldwide to turn a profit for the studio. In other words, it needs to become one of the two or three highest-grossing movies in history just to break even. "Steven wants to make the movie of the decade," notes one source. We'll see....
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