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Your Wednesday Lunchtime Spielberg Factoid

by Escorpion
January 7th, 2009

If you are a major Bollywood director, you will make some schweet cash.  Steven Spielberg makes some hella green-backs.  Not only does he get paid the big bucks up front, but he also sets his ass up to make some money on the back door as well.  For Jurrasic Park he got $250k up front but got gross and profit participations as well. He paid himself $1.5 million for Raiders and took a percentage of the gross as well.  I am sure Lucas made some little gold dildo idols as well, so I am sure he made some black market cash to wet his little Indy whistle. Jurrassic II  was a fucking whopper...$72,000,000.  God damn ...

Top 10 Movies That Need to Be Remade NOW!!

by Grumms
November 19th, 2008

2 Comments Posted in GF Movies
Over the years, Scorp and I have been tossing around this idea that there are some movies that just need to be remade.  Clash of the Titans is probably at the top of the list.  The special effects in the original were roughly the equivalent of watching Harry Hamlin wash his balls with butter (btw, with all due respect to Ray Harryhausen, all stop motion must die), but damn the story was good.  And it was freakin educational! And thankfully this movie is FINALLY being made and released in 2010...aww fucking yeah!  Louis Leterrier of recent "Hulk" fame as well as the Transporter flicks is directing and Lawrence Kasdan (of Empire Strikes ...