Surprisingly, Mel Gibson back to work on set of 'The Beaver'... all things considered
Taylor
Mel Gibson Back To Work
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Although we can't believe anyone would want him, Mel Gibson returned
to work on the set of The Beaver last week.
The movie, which is directed by Jodie Foster, didn't test well, so
reshoots in NYC were necessary.
"Mel was in complete shock," said an insider. "Everyone was walking on
eggshells around him. It was the weirdest set ever."
We can understand why!
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[Image via WENN, NTVNAT.]
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Posted: July 15, 2010 at 3:00 pm
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Celebrity Juice, Not from Concentrate
nick
> Mel Gibson Back To Work
> Filed under: Film Flickers > Mel Gibson
>
>
> Although we can't believe anyone would want him, Mel Gibson returned
> to work on the set of The Beaver last week.
>
isn't a title you want to hang your comeback on.
Bill Reid
"Mel, don't you think you were a little rough on The
Beaver last night?"
---
William Ernest Reid
TBerk
screen? Some say Yes, some don't think so. When he is found guilty and
does some time, then, he can get crucified like I think he'd like. In
the mean time 'we' should stop chasing all this gossip mongering.
TBerk
RichA
Liberals are like this. Lohan and the rest of the lib trash can go to
jail for being drunk in their cars, doing drugs, running into people
in their cars, etc. But then all is forgiven, because they are all
part of the same group of miscreants. Gibson doesn't tow the
Hollywood line so the indignation from the cabal makes it seem like he
won't ever have a job again. But just as with Passion of the Christ,
if he has to go it alone, he will and I hope the same thing happens
with any other films he does, I hope it rubs the lib's face in it.
Travoltron
The trailer could say, "MEL GIBSON HAS LOST HIS MIND!!!" and show him
doing his antics with the puppet.
mikey
Ah, Mel, don't be such a goof.
Doesn't Mel belong in a Ward?
Why is he acting like a Haskell dropout?
Oh, well, I guess it really doesn't Mather.
CliffB
> Filed under: Film Flickers > Mel Gibson
>
>
> Although we can't believe anyone would want him, Mel Gibson returned
> to work on the set of The Beaver last week.
>
> The movie, which is directed by Jodie Foster, didn't test well, so
> reshoots in NYC were necessary.
>
> "Mel was in complete shock," said an insider. "Everyone was walking on
> eggshells around him. It was the weirdest set ever."
>
> We can understand why!
>
> http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/eggshell_set_Vx3Tj5f29dUCBwViO7EA5I
>
> [Image via WENN, NTVNAT.]
>
> Tags: jodie foster, nyc, the beaver
>
> Posted: July 15, 2010 at 3:00 pm
>
> Celebrity Juice, Not from Concentrate
Sounds like a real pile of crap, this film. How did Jodie Foster get
involved in this frivolous production? There's a kind of karma to
creating junk like this.
Taylor
This is karma for unloading that big, stinking, warm piece of shit
known as 'Maverick' (1992) they did together.
>
> - Show quoted text -
trotsky
> On Jul 15, 11:26 pm, TBerk<bayareab...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> So what, Mel is an asshole. But does he turn in a decent role on-
>> screen? Some say Yes, some don't think so. When he is found guilty and
>> does some time, then, he can get crucified like I think he'd like. In
>> the mean time 'we' should stop chasing all this gossip mongering.
>>
>> TBerk
>
> Liberals are like this. Lohan and the rest of the lib trash
Really? You have a cite for Lindsay Lohan's political leanings, liar?
I think you're confused on who the trash is here, buddy.
KK
> doesn't tow the Hollywood line
Shithead.
dvdshonna
Its not like hollywood stars with personal problems is anything new.
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Travoltron
> Sounds like a real pile of crap, this film. How did Jodie Foster get
> involved in this frivolous production? There's a kind of karma to
> creating junk like this.
The title alone is enough to get Jodie Foster excited.
Anyways, this was after Mel's first rant & DUI. He'd already begun
behaving erratically in public and she still hired him. I don't feel
bad for her at all.
nick
Found guilty and does some time? Using language like "niggers" and
"cunts" and his anti-Semitic rantings is enough for me. "We" are not
lawyers or judges. We're consumers of product that Mel Gibson is
selling, and if we think Mel is a fucking idiot and/or madman, then we
have the right to mock and deride as we see fit. If, on the other
hand, you're fine with it, then go ahead and support the man and go
see his movies.
The Mighty T.B.
> so you hope his movies lose money? because that's what they've been
> doing lately.
Cite?
The Starmaker
movies don't "lose" money...
even their 'garbage' makes money.
Hollywood is in the garbage business..
and I always thought 'the Italians' had
a monopoly on the garbage business...
...and their food..
anybody wants kosher pizza?
Pithy and Original
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Wall-he asked for it.
TBerk
> On Jul 15, 11:26 pm, TBerk <bayareab...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > So what, Mel is an asshole. But does he turn in a decent role on-
> > screen? Some say Yes, some don't think so. When he is found guilty and
> > does some time, then, he can get crucified like I think he'd like. In
> > the mean time 'we' should stop chasing all this gossip mongering.
>
> > TBerk
>
> Liberals are like this.
Like, what exectly?
> Lohan and the rest of the lib trash can go to
> jail for being drunk in their cars, doing drugs, running into people
> in their cars, etc. But then all is forgiven, because they are all
> part of the same group of miscreants. Gibson doesn't tow the
> Hollywood line so the indignation from the cabal makes it seem like he
> won't ever have a job again. But just as with Passion of the Christ,
> if he has to go it alone, he will and I hope the same thing happens
> with any other films he does, I hope it rubs the lib's face in it.
What the hell does anything _you_ said have to do with what _I_
wrote. You're just using my post to spout your same old bullshit.
TBerk
TBerk
> On Jul 15, 11:26 pm, TBerk <bayareab...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > So what, Mel is an asshole. But does he turn in a decent role on-
> > screen? Some say Yes, some don't think so. When he is found guilty and
> > does some time, then, he can get crucified like I think he'd like. In
> > the mean time 'we' should stop chasing all this gossip mongering.
>
> > TBerk
>
> Found guilty and does some time? Using language like "niggers" and
> "cunts" and his anti-Semitic rantings is enough for me.
OK, but I'll not be lead by the nose to make up my own mind.
> "We" are not
> lawyers or judges. We're consumers of product that Mel Gibson is
> selling, and if we think Mel is a fucking idiot and/or madman, then we
> have the right to mock and deride as we see fit. If, on the other
> hand, you're fine with it, then go ahead and support the man and go
> see his movies.
Do your thing then.
TBerk
Janice
.
> Not a huge Mel Gibson fan, but I do like Braveheart and Passion.
Conspiracy Theory is one of those movies I can't help but get hooked
into every time I surf by... it might be because Mel's character is so
very believable, and so seemingly out-of-character.
The Mad Max series has always been a favorite, and I also really
enjoyed Hamlet.
Sad, really. What a miserably unhappy man he must be.
~`~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Starmaker
> million domestic. he produced "paparazzi," which only made $15
> million us. "edge of darnkess," which he starred in, did only $43
> million us. so he's teetering on the edge these days.
Okay do the math...
Domestic: $43,313,890 53.6%
+ Foreign: $37,493,761 46.4%
= Worldwide: $80,807,651
Production Budget: $80 million
So he's ahead $807,651...and that's not counting DVD and 3D TV
conversion...
And a Production Budget of $80 million means everybody got paid...
Now, put it on cable tv, or the dumb TV channel for the next 1000
years...
Blue Ray, Orange Ray, Green Ray....Hologram TV...
How much do Woody Allen movies teeterings on?
The Starmaker
The Starmaker
He didn't sound 'unhappy' to me...sounds like he was having 'fun' with her...
"Fun" is calling up a girl and cursing the hell out of her....
I cannot count how many times girls call me up the next morning to tell
me what I said the night before at 3 0clock in the morning...
I have to keep telling them..."I don't remember calling you up last night!"
All girls have the same line...
"And then you said this..
and then you said that..
and then you called me a ...
and then you ..."
Don't all guys do a "Mel Gibson" on girls?
The Starmaker
Porky Pig
Levae it to Beaver?
Boy..
P-P-P-Porky Pig aka SC
Turk
>
> - Show quoted text -
There is this thing called Hollywood math, a rough calculation on what
it takes for a movie to break even, It includes marketing,
advertising and distribution costs. You basically multiply the
production cost by 2.5 to hit break even - so an $80 million cost
needs to make back $200 million to break even. It is an
approximation, of course, but gives a sense of success/failure.
So, by that admittedly inexact math, Edge of Darkness was a failure,
especially for a star of his caliber.
Turk
The Starmaker
I don't know anything about Hollywood math...
All I know is if you spend 80 million and you get back 80 million, not a
penny more or less, ..you break even.
Numbers don't lie, only Hollywood people do.
Hollywood has two books...
One book is for the IRS..and the other book
is for the banks.
One book they make money, the other book they lose money...that's
Hollywood math.
The Starmaker
Mac Breck
JimmyM wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:45:34 -0700, The Starmaker
> <star...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> JimmyM wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:38:08 -0700, "The Mighty T.B."
>>> <x...@unknownaddress.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> JimmyM wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> so you hope his movies lose money? because that's what they've
>>>>> been doing lately.
>>>>
>>>> Cite?
>>>
>>> apocalypto didn't do very well for a mel gibson directed movie. $50
>>> million domestic. he produced "paparazzi," which only made $15
>>> million us. "edge of darnkess," which he starred in, did only $43
>>> million us. so he's teetering on the edge these days.
"Edge of DarKNess"
"Edge of Darkness" wasn't bad (although some scenes were painfully
predictable.) in fact, I bought that DVD. It's lack of box office is
probably backlash from Mel's offscreen problems. People don't like the
actor and so avoid his movies, ala Tom Cruise. If Mel would STFU and
just make movies, this would probably blow over. However, I don't think
Mel *can* STFU.
>> Okay do the math...
>>
>> Domestic: $43,313,890 53.6%
>> + Foreign: $37,493,761 46.4%
>> = Worldwide: $80,807,651
>>
>> Production Budget: $80 million
>>
>> So he's ahead $807,651...and that's not counting DVD and 3D TV
>> conversion...
>
> that may be making good money to us, but that ain't shit by hollywood
> standards.
>
>> And a Production Budget of $80 million means everybody got paid...
>
> that's a 1% return. you could put that money in the bank and make
> more off it.
>
>> Now, put it on cable tv, or the dumb TV channel for the next 1000
>> years...
>>
>> Blue Ray, Orange Ray, Green Ray....Hologram TV...
>>
>> How much do Woody Allen movies teeterings on?
>
> woody isn't spending $80 million on his movies. most of his movies
> are pretty low budget.
...and are awful.
"The Mighty Aphrodite" (1995)
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1995/0MGPH.php
Theatrical Performance
Total US Gross $6,401,297
International Gross $19,598,703
Worldwide Gross $26,000,000
...over the course of *six* *months* .
People were raving about that one. I figured, I like Mira Sorvino, so I
took a chance on it and bought the DVD (That was before I joined
Netflix.). What a snoozefest! Sold the DVD the next day. Couldn't
wait to get it out of my house.
--
Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999) - "War Zone"
Galen (to Gideon): "I've been penalized before for helping other
people. I've been trying to decide whether or not I should risk it
again."
The Mighty T.B.
(snip)
>> And a Production Budget of $80 million means everybody got paid...
>
> that's a 1% return. you could put that money in the bank and make
> more off it.
Actually, the movie cost just over $40 million to film and grossed over $120 million worldwide strictly form tehatrical screenings. Home video sales aren't even calculated into the equation.
Gibson is certainly not hurting for money. In addition to what he's made as a film maker and actor, he's also a very succesful real estate and stock market investor.
The Mighty T.B.
Wow. It's the battle of the retards.
M.L.
>>Gibson is certainly not hurting for money. In addition to what he's made as a film maker and actor, he's also a very succesful real estate and stock market investor.
>
>he claims to have sold his box seats for dodger games because he's
>hurting from his wife costing $5 million to make her horrid album and
>videos. i think maybe he's not as careful with his money as you may
>think.
Mel was obviously lying to his golddigger.
Dano
Not to defend or support Gibson in any way...at least a lot of people got
paydays out of that film...including his abused wife...who BTW, I hope gets
every penny of his that she and her lawyers can squeeze out of that jackass.
KK
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:38:08 -0700, "The Mighty T.B."
> <x...@unknownaddress.com> wrote:
>
> apocalypto didn't do very well for a mel gibson directed movie.
I'm pretty sure the expectations for a subtitled Aztec movie were not in
the Lethal Weapon or Braveheart league. $50M sounds pretty good, in
fact, for a movie like that. It beat Private Parts.
KK
>>And a Production Budget of $80 million means everybody got paid...
>
> that's a 1% return. you could put that money in the bank and make more
> off it.
The point is, if the producers, director, and actors all got paid, it was
a successful venture.
You can't put $80M in the bank and get the millions in salaries and fees
that those people generate.
lab~rat >:-)
Which was the greatest movie of all times. Did anyone ever find that
gold CD?
--
lab~rat >:-)
Do you want polite or do you want sincere?
William George Ferguson
wrote:
>Turk wrote:
Nobody does, except Hollywood Accountants, especially since the numbers
change to fit the desired result.
>All I know is if you spend 80 million and you get back 80 million, not a
>penny more or less, ..you break even.
Well, if the worldwide box office is 80 million, the distributor gets back
about half of that (the other half is what the theatres are paid for
showing it). This is, in fact the only number you can trust to be
reasonably true in Hollywood math, because the IRS will nail you to the
wall and flay your skin off in little strips if you try to jigger it.
>Numbers don't lie, only Hollywood people do.
with numbers.
(and I object to the word 'only' in the above sentence. Perhaps better
would 'among the many who lie are Hollywood people'.)
>Hollywood has two books...
>One book is for the IRS..and the other book
>is for the banks.
>One book they make money, the other book they lose money...that's
>Hollywood math.
Correction: one book is for themselves, and one book is for anybody who can
take some money from them if the project makes a profit.
Keep in mind that Avatar hasn't made a profit yet, according to Hollywood
math. Neither has Titanic. Or the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or the
Harry Potter movies.
Basically, the box office (ticket sales) and rental receipts (the money
theatres pay to distributors) have to be accurately reported, because the
IRS and FTC watch those like a hawk, and will truly nail anybody who
misreports them. All other numbers are mutable, and will change to fit the
perceived needs of the reporter. For some morbid humor, read the
transcript of Buchwald vs. Paramount.
If the studio reports that the production cost is 80 million, there is no
reason whatsoever to believe that figure is truthful or accurate, it is
just the figure the studio felt would best serve its interests. If it
turns out the figure doesn't work for the studio, they will just change it
(New Line bumped up the 'production costs' of the LOTR trilogy by over 200
million when it became apparant how large the collective box office would
be. It also reallocated the costs between movies to better match which
ones had the higher gross).
To say that no movie loses money is an overstatement, but it is true that
very few do.
--
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every square inch of your ass kicked."
- Willow Rosenberg
Anim8rFSK
KK <_K...@furburger.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:20:47 -0400, JimmyM wrote:
>
> >>And a Production Budget of $80 million means everybody got paid...
> >
> > that's a 1% return. you could put that money in the bank and make more
> > off it.
>
> The point is, if the producers, director, and actors all got paid, it was
> a successful venture.
No, that's not the point. Those people all get paid even if the movie
isn't released at all. They get paid even if it's the biggest failure
in the world.
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William George Ferguson <wmgf...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> If the studio reports that the production cost is 80 million, there is no
> reason whatsoever to believe that figure is truthful or accurate, it is
> just the figure the studio felt would best serve its interests. If it
> turns out the figure doesn't work for the studio, they will just change it
> (New Line bumped up the 'production costs' of the LOTR trilogy by over 200
> million when it became apparant how large the collective box office would
> be. It also reallocated the costs between movies to better match which
> ones had the higher gross).
Plus you can't trust that the released number is high or low. You've
just cited a case where they inflated the number greatly, but I've also
seen them claim a movie cost half what it did, as you said, if it serves
their best interests.
I can think of examples of that going both ways: TITANIC's production
cost included the price of building the Baja Fox facility, but
ANASTASIA's production cost didn't inclue the price of starting up Fox
Phoenix. Probably because they wanted Titantic to cost more, and knew
Anastasia was going to be a disaster.
The Mighty T.B.
> hurting from his wife costing $5 million to make her horrid album and
> videos. i think maybe he's not as careful with his money as you may
> think.
>
> million production budget and made less than $81 million. now it had
> a $40 million budget and did $120 million?
You're.. confused. I never made the claim "apocalypto had an $80 million production budget and made less than $81 million." "Starmaker" did.
T.B.
Drumrboy
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:29:09 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >In article <hRZ0o.39876$f_3.28...@newsfe17.iad>,
> > KK <_...@furburger.net> wrote:
>
> >> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:20:47 -0400, JimmyM wrote:
>
> >> >>And a Production Budget of $80 million means everybody got paid...
>
> >> > that's a 1% return. you could put that money in the bank and make more
> >> > off it.
>
> >> The point is, if the producers, director, and actors all got paid, it was
> >> a successful venture.
>
> >No, that's not the point. Those people all get paid even if the movie
> >isn't released at all. They get paid even if it's the biggest failure
> >in the world.
>
> it's apparently not enough to put up with the bullshit.
Is Hoo Hoo goofing on Mel and his fake titted, gold digging trophy
wife?
lab~rat >:-)
puked:
Howard doesn't have a problem with fake tits like Mel does. I think
it would be great if Beth were smart enough to operate a recorder.
I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that goes on in the hman mansion that
would make great soundboard material.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/soundboards/play/81036464/
lab~rat >:-)
>On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:11:01 -0700 (PDT), Drumrboy <drum...@aol.com>
>wrote:
>hell yeah!
Of course, the pinnacle of the Mel Gibson saga for Howard was editing
it and making it a gay conversation between Mel and a wack packer.
The Starmaker
>
> Howard doesn't have a problem with fake tits like Mel does.
Where did you hear that...on the radio?
lab~rat >:-)
<star...@ix.netcom.com> puked:
>lab~rat >:-) wrote:
>>
>
>> Howard doesn't have a problem with fake tits like Mel does.
>
>
>Where did you hear that...on the radio?
On the SATELLITE radio...
And clearly he doesn't mind fake boobs because he's married to one...
The Starmaker
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:13:49 -0700, The Starmaker
> <star...@ix.netcom.com> puked:
>
> >lab~rat >:-) wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> Howard doesn't have a problem with fake tits like Mel does.
> >
> >
> >Where did you hear that...on the radio?
>
> On the SATELLITE radio...
>
> And clearly he doesn't mind fake boobs because he's married to one...
You don't believe everthing you hear on the radio, do you?
She could have a mustache, doesn't mean he likes girls with mustaches.
Howard Stern is a radio personality, it doesn't exist in the real
world..
KK
> right. howard stern is played by an actor named harry schmidlap, and in
> real life is married to a popcorn lady at msg.
Wow. It's been so long since I've seen quality improv.
He's here all week, ladies and gentlemen.
Avoid normal situations.
> JimmyM wrote:
[..]
> >> How much do Woody Allen movies teeterings on?
> >
> > woody isn't spending $80 million on his movies. most of his movies
> > are pretty low budget.
> ...and are awful.
> "The Mighty Aphrodite" (1995)
> http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1995/0MGPH.php
> Theatrical Performance
> Total US Gross $6,401,297
> International Gross $19,598,703
> Worldwide Gross $26,000,000
> ...over the course of *six* *months* .
> People were raving about that one. I figured, I like Mira Sorvino, so I
> took a chance on it and bought the DVD (That was before I joined
> Netflix.). What a snoozefest! Sold the DVD the next day. Couldn't
> wait to get it out of my house.
One of my favorite films.
--
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"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We
laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate
and bid the geldings to be fruitful." -- C.S. Lewis
lab~rat >:-)
<star...@ix.netcom.com> puked:
>lab~rat >:-) wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:13:49 -0700, The Starmaker
>> <star...@ix.netcom.com> puked:
>>
>> >lab~rat >:-) wrote:
>> >>
>> >
>> >> Howard doesn't have a problem with fake tits like Mel does.
>> >
>> >
>> >Where did you hear that...on the radio?
>>
>> On the SATELLITE radio...
>>
>> And clearly he doesn't mind fake boobs because he's married to one...
>
>You don't believe everthing you hear on the radio, do you?
He's married to Bethoats.
She's a fake boob.
Ergo...
>
>
>She could have a mustache, doesn't mean he likes girls with mustaches.
>
>
>Howard Stern is a radio personality, it doesn't exist in the real
>world..
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Dymphna
Please do not take this at face value. The voice may not be his. I have
some inside sources on this one. The gold digger was asking him to pay
$10m not to release the tapes. She is going to be charged with
extortion.
Mel has returned to his wife Robin. Robin has put out a statement
stating that in 28 years of marriage he was never abusive.
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