Brad Pitt: Softbank Sumo Wrestler!

ahhhhhh love him too :)

boring.

Trash…..

Doesn’t he have enough money? Why does he feel the need to ***** him self out like that? Greed.

Oh good. A new thread — thanks, Jared, even though the cell phone commercial is really nothng new. Thank God you have stopped with the tab stories.

sell out!

LOL! New thread too!

From the other thread
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groundcontrol @ 07/02/2009 at 12:33 pm I wouldn’t ignore those insiders in FF at all. Specially when they are talking about JA. For 2 months after her first BU with John Mayer they were saying Jen and John were going back together and that was the case there for a long time , There was no sign in getting back but they knew it. And then they actually did get back together. It’s obvious to me Huvan’s close employees post there and give new gossips to media out there. Don’t ignore these insiders easily. If Huvan employed people to post here and one of them actually confirmed it and then all tabs have employees in this and other blogs , then don’t understimate these insiders specially when it is about JA and not JPs. I’m not telling this reunion rumors are true , but these rumors are going around for a long time and if you look back it all started by FF’s posters. I think even one of them probably found that necklace resemblance. Maybe there IS actually something going on between them(Brad and JA) , Who knows or maybe there isn’t but Huvaniston want us to think there is. Who knows but i’m pretty sure some of posters in FF are really close to JA and Huvan and one of them could be her herself.

Out!

@Don’t Tell THAT:

If you go back and read JJ threads you will read that regulars who are not Aniston fans were saying that she would get back with Mayer. Regulars predicted they would breakup after the Oscars also. So your theory doesn’t mean much. JJ regulars so predicted there would be rumors about her and GB and that she would be seen with an up and coming young actor.
No inside information needed. Just an understanding of how shallow and needy Aniston is. Also how gullible her fans like you are.

I like it, it’s funny lol

Funny commercial! If the message in Japanese at the end of the commercial means “buy our cell phone and Brad Pitt will pick you up and carry you, too”… Where do I buy one (or 24)????????????

Also, I agree: a lot of big-time celebrities do commercials. Nothing wrong with it.

A charming Brad,
Very nice!!!

greetings fans.. I guess I missed a mega thread.. LOL at the commercial!!

hi there ebmo, neleh, debra77, pt, dianand1968, cliniqua, 4q, frenchy, felinelily, vickifromtx and all the others on neleh’s list as I am losing it now.. .

Brad is so gorgeous and so funny.

Very good :)

I’m not a Brad fan but it’s a funny commercial.

Brad looks very young in the commercial. He is so cute.

credit jjb

Brad Pitt for Mayor News Video

http://www.wdsu.com/video/19922804/index.html

# 16 Don’t Tell THAT @ 07/02/2009 at 2:54 pm
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From the other thread
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groundcontrol @ 07/02/2009 at 12:33 pm I wouldn’t ignore those insiders in FF at all. Specially when they are talking about JA. For 2 months after her first BU with John Mayer they were saying Jen and John were going back together and that was the case there for a long time , There was no sign in getting back but they knew it. And then they actually did get back together. It’s obvious to me Huvan’s close employees post there and give new gossips to media out there. Don’t ignore these insiders easily.
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LOL. This made me laugh. WE predicted X and The Urinator would get back togehter after he dumped her the first time…and we’re not “insiders”. Everyone who knows X’s post-divorce t!t-for-tat pattern of behavior predicted they’d get back together in time for her to promote TDF if she couldn’t find a new employee to take over from him. Go back and sift through the J-P threads from late August to early October of last year. We got a ton of mileage out of making fun of X’s PRmances.

credit jjb
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/architecture/brad_pitts_make_it_right_organization_releases_new_housing_designs_120596.asp

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Organization Releases New Housing Designs

Staying on celebrities for a minute, Brad Pitt, has released a slew of new house designs for his Make It Right project which builds houses to replace those damaged or destroyed by the flooding in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina debacle (you might recall our post from a few years ago about the first round). Each of the new designs were created by 14 different firms ranging from Gehry Partners to a collaborator of Make It Right’s from the start, William McDonough + Partners. There’s information about each of the plans available on the project’s site (though most of the firms just provide their bios, a few of links have information about the actual plans you’re looking at), as well as a handful of photos and downloadable renderings and plans, to give you a closer look.

its a phone company thing in japan ive used it before

The trolls are going crazy because there are no pics of Brad and his family. Well I am glad they are enjoying this time away from the lense of the paps and the dirty mouths of haters. They deserve and earned their peace and quiet.

Brad looks 10 years younger without facial hair. But he loves facial hair, doesn’t he? I love him either way.

Great commercial…love Brad…love Spike Jones!! Thanks for the new thread Jared!

credit jjb

Spike Jonze-Directed Softbank Commercial Starring Brad Pitt

Spike Jonze has directed a new commercial for the Japanese company Softbank, starring Brad Pitt as the personal assistant of a Sumo wrestler. From what I recall, the spot was shot in the Sirius/XM building in New York City. The tv advertisement won’t be airing in America

He did the commercial when Angie worked on Salt. He has done commercial for Softbank for years. All Softbank commercials are funny. He is so loved in Japan.

gitano @ 07/02/2009 at 4:46 pm
ding, ding, ding. You get the prize.

mariam @ 07/02/2009 at 4:53 pm

http://www.usmagazine.com/hot_pics_gallery
JUST CHILLIN’
Brad Pitt bummed a ride with a photographer after his vintage motorcycle broke down in L.A.’s Franklin Village Thursday.
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awwwwww. Thank you for the new picture. Brad looks so hot. He wears a”GRAFT” shirt.

Brad is getting hotter and hotter each day.

i dont understand why he’s doing Japanese commercials
im sure an american advertiser could pay more than a Japanese 1

The troll loves her some Brad. I ain’t mad at ya.

I guess JPs is going to stay in LA. He will start his IB promotion soon.

@Aww: The really funny thing is (im not lying) is that I came up with the necklace thing and the next thing you know the tabloids are saying the same thing. lmao! I am not lying. A few of the other stuff I made up once made it into in touch, too. I wrote Angelina being away from Brad was like a weight off her shoulders and a few weeks later In touch picked it up. Mauahhaah!

Have seen what it is written on his helmet !!!! his children have written many things :

daddys helmet, there is a little yellow monster and many other things !!

His children are so lovely . And as a good father is going proudly wearing the helmet !!

He loves his children that it is sure

Passing Through @ 07/02/2009 at 3:37 pm

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Jared…dude…can we talk about you love of plaid clothing?
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^^^tolls are blind and stupid..

^^^trolls are blind and stupid

What an attention who*e he is.
couldn’t he take a Taxi instead of riding with papz?
even Britney wouldn’t do that.

How funny Angie is only seen during events and premieres.

while Pitt is seen almost every day riding his bikes and who*ing himself around in L.A.

no wonder Angie is dumping his a** . he is worse than Britney in wh*ring himself.

i doubt Angie is even in L.A. wherever she is , hope she keeps this distance she has with Pitt right now.

who wants such a father around her kids.

you rock Angie.

we are proud of you for dumping this a**.

OMG @ 07/02/2009 at 5:29 pm

The helmet says daddy’s helmet,very cute,looks like one of the kids did some drawing on it
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so cute.

The driver is from x-17,i’m pretty sure they’re going to call in a favor from him,nothing is free in LA,i must say when it comes to the paps him and angie are miles apart.

“daddy helmet” reminds me that when they were leaving Prague, there was a box labeled “daddy box”. Really cute.

To Passing Through:
There is something wrong with your numbers about Shreck 3’s profits.
Only 50% of the gross is for the studio. The other half is for the theater’s owners.
Then, if Shreck3 made $799 worldwide million, the studio only made $400 million.
Because this, they say that a movie need two times his budget to make a profit. And that doesn’t include marketing expenses.
But if a movie only makes two times his budget, the marketing expenses and the profit came from DVD and television rights.

# 55 mariam @ 07/02/2009 at 4:53 pm
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Thanks for the pic. Brad looks hot…but I gotta laugh at the shirt pimping his architectural firm…

When I thought Brad couldn’t get any hotter, here he is. He is smoking hot.

love that man! so do hagistons. perpetually predicting a reunion with the anusStain!

Thanks JJ.

I think the majority of fans have ssen this as well as the new Angelina pics.

Angelina is breathtaking.

Now that paparazzi is going to be our newest insider who is going to come up with a long inside story about what Brad said to him during their ride together. I’m waiting for it. IT is probably running around to give that guy a very good bucks for that non existance story he will tell about inside informations Brad gave to him.

The tabs have angie and the kids in france,so they’re going to have to come up with another angle,unless the fight was over the phone,lol

Or get in bed with Peeboy and wake up in pee. Geez hens, Papa Pitt been around a long time. I think he knows how to handle a nosy pap. Now rabid hens, another story.

How about

“Brad’s Break Down”

It can be about how Brad was sad cause Angie got the custody of kids and he told these to that guy, And how that guy was such an angel saving him and was shoulder for his cry cause Maniston is away filming. LOL Good cover?!

The tabs make up stories all the time so what’s the big deal. How stupid are you trolls. Remember a couple of years ago Angelina help a pap whose bike had broke down. He got a ride with Angelina and the kids.
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I don’t think Brad or Angelina live their lives worry what wlll the tabloids write.

i am sure brad and angie know their children can read. they don’t expose their children to the dregs of American Society…. TABLOIDS

Their children will be exposed to ALL the world, NOT SUPERFICIAL HOLLYWOOD.

# 86 aj @ 07/02/2009 at 5:37 pm
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To Passing Through:
There is something wrong with your numbers about Shreck 3’s profits.
Only 50% of the gross is for the studio. The other half is for the theater’s owners.
Then, if Shreck3 made $799 worldwide million, the studio only made $400 million.
Because this, they say that a movie need two times his budget to make a profit. And that doesn’t include marketing expenses.
But if a movie only makes two times his budget, the marketing expenses and the profit came from DVD and television rights.
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Basically you’re saying I forgot to divide the BO profit of $279MIL by 2. Which may have been the case because I was doing it on the fly while I was fixing a computer at work.
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As I understand it, studios include marketing costs when they’re crunching the numbers to see how much a movie has to make at the BO before they turn a profit. That’s why I added the estimated $100MIL for marketing to the production costs. We already know that Shrek 3 made a bundle at the theaters, so subtracting marketing from the DVD sales total isn’t necessary.
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Also, when it comes to how much Cam Diaz made on that movie, the rumor mill said $30MIL, so I got the percentage based on that. She could well have gotten a higher percentage. Typcially actors get points on the BO gross or net, but occasionally they’re in a positon to be able to negotiate for post-theatrical release profits as well. Certainly all the principles in Shrek were, The studio’s really makes it’s money after the theatrical run. But, as I said, the numbers for international DVD sales, worldwide DVD rentals, worldwide broadcast tv and PPV aren’t available to anyone outside the studios and producers guild. I doubt the actors got a piece of the profits from promotional tie-ins, but you never know.

# 102 NO @ 07/02/2009 at 6:09 pm
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How about
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“Brad’s Break Down”
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It can be about how Brad was sad cause Angie got the custody of kids and he told these to that guy, And how that guy was such an angel saving him and was shoulder for his cry cause Maniston is away filming. LOL Good cover?!
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ROTFLMAO! That’s a definite OUttaTouch story. It’d be 6 pages long with 8 sidebars. That’s a little joke about the interminable tabloid report I’ve been working on - for days…mainly because my brain shuts down after about an hour of that crap - covering the June issues of OuttaTouch. Honestly - these people have more sidebars than sense.

aj @ 07/02/2009 at 5:37 pm To Passing Through:
There is something wrong with your numbers about Shreck 3’s profits.
Only 50% of the gross is for the studio. The other half is for the theater’s owners.
Then, if Shreck3 made $799 worldwide million, the studio only made $400 million.
Because this, they say that a movie need two times his budget to make a profit. And that doesn’t include marketing expenses.
But if a movie only makes two times his budget, the marketing expenses and the profit came from DVD and television rights.
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That isn’t how it works. The studios have different contractual agreements for revenue splitting depending upon the theater corporation showing the film. It also depends on the film. A sure thing wil get the studio a bigger share because filling seats is practically guaranteed. The Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 films were as close to sure bets as you can get so I am sure the theaters made a much smaller percentage and maybe had to even bid to win the right to show them.
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Likewise, the revenue sharing overseas is a different calculation than in the US. The studios make a bigger share overseas.
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Though dvds are on the decline these movies were still released before that and even then every family with kids has these dvds.

I meant Brad fans

To Passing Through:
No. I said that the correct numbers are:
$ 400 million from theaters
$ 90 million from DVD (maybe a little more, cause i think the studio gets more than 50%)
= 490 million - 160 million (budget) - 100 million (marketing) = 230 million profit.

But the profit is bigger because there is also internacional DVDs sales and television rights.

But I only saying that a movie needs more than two times his budget to make a profit, cause only half of the money goes to the studio, and the studio needs to pay the picture and the marketing.

Cute

To grouncontrol:
I think you are right about tentpoles. They get more than 50% (maybe 60%), but they never gets all the money.
And other kinds of movies can get less than 50%.
I read sometime that the studios gets 40 to 60% of the gross.

Sorry for the double posts. I don’t know how i can delete one of them.

JP baby #7? never heard that one. Hags would be pulling their pubic hair out if that were true. The last nail in their imaginary coffin of the JP’s demise. OUCH!!!!

I won’t be surprised if Angie shows up one day & very pregnant. what do you think the jenhags will do? Brad & Angie are making baby #7.

well x-17 has the pictures up, and just like i suspected the driver was quoted as saying brad was very chatty and gracious,next week IT cover.

OT

I think this is FAKE but we will know tomorrow:

Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search for the precious gems and beating villagers who get in the way.

The New York-based organization said its call for a ban on diamonds from the region had received an endorsement from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. A statement from the couple’s foundation was expected later Friday.

“Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have issued a call for a ban on any sale or purchase of Marange diamonds … until … the mining is not based on the violent abuse of residents in that region,” said Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch’s executive director.

x17 @ 07/02/2009 at 7:19 pm

I knew it. so now he says Brad was very chatty! That’s quite enough for me to know one of next week’s tabs will have an exclusive interview with that guy about Brad and Angie’s relationship. and they will make us to believe Brad talked with a complete stranger about his relationship with Angie and informed him about the state of their relationship. at least we are prepared for it.

The X 17 papz was so lucky. Having papz around sometimes have a postive outcome. God bless the Jolie-Pitt family
Shout out to senior,neleh,vicki,MF,anoble,Chopin,Briseis,Bailey,cinnamon,pt,bdj,ebmo,estelle,tondo girl,Dbra77,Dina#1,neer,cliniqua,Felinelilly,african girl,new york lurker,val,Jill,teri,& to all on board.God bless you all & God bless the Jolie-Pitt family.

@NO: Exactly. I mean why would anyone talk about their own relationship period much less with a total stranger? Yeah right. Will Brad ask that pap about who he is seeing?

# 117 aj @ 07/02/2009 at 6:37 pm
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To Passing Through:
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Ummm…WTH are you talking about? As I said, I forgot to divide the BO profits by 2, which is why my number for the studio’s BO earnings is off. Just take my BO profit and divide it by 2. My math is below - as well as the link.
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$799MIL worldwide box office
-$520MIL (260 (160MIL production + $100MIL marketing) X 2)
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= $279MIL BOX OFFICE PROFIT
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For the sake of argument let’s say it’s a 50/50 split between the studio and theaters
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$279MIL/2 = $139.5MIL as the Studio’s box office profit
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According to your math the studio doesn’t pay for marketing costs until they’ve sold the DVDs. That’s unrealistic. Marketing is a pay-as-you-go scenario. Studios are looking to recoup that money ASAP and funneling it into marketing other movies. The marketing costs I’m talking about are for the theaterical run, not whatever additional marketing they do for the DVD release. Universal doesn’t call up NBC and say, “We want to buy 20 minutes of prime-time advertising this month for our fall releases, but we can’t pay for it for 6 months - that’s when our Shrek The Third DVD profits come in.” No. NBC expects their money up-front.
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When it comes to DVD sales, your $90MIL profit is way off. There is NOT a 50/50 split with the stores selling it. It’s not even 60/40. The retailer gets a small piece of each sale - ie, the mark-up. If they got a bigger piece, then more stores would sell DVDs. LOL. That’s why you can buy CDs and DVDs so much cheaper at Wal-mart than you can at other places. For them selling DVDs is just like selling toothpaste or a box of cereal. They pay the wholesale price and then mark-up their profit from there. That’s also why DVDs come with a suggested retail price. It’s a cap set by the studios so that retailers can’t hike the price and increase THEIR profit while the studio sees none of that increased revenue. Wal-mart buys in bulk. They buy 2,000,000 units. A local DVD/CD store may buy 200 units. Wal-mart’s getting their’s a hell of a lot cheaper - say $16.99 per unit and can resell it with minimal markup, ie, $18.99, and still turn a tidy profit. The local DVD place pays more - say $19.99 per unit - for the very same DVD and resells it for the suggested retail price, ie, $21.99. Their profit margin may be the same as Wal-mart, but multiply Wal-mart’s profit by 10,000 and that’s why they’re Wal-mart and everybody else is out of business.
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Needless to say, there’s no way to account for revenue from DVD rentals and all the other ways a movie makes money because the studios just ain’t talking. That’s why actors end up suing - to get full disclosure of earnings and their fare share of profits and residuals.

Brad used to wear a ring in his right hand all the time. He has stopped wearing it in recent month.

Does anyone know why?

Does this mean anything?

I’m alittle worried. For 4 years he wore a ring in his right hand all the time but now he has stopped wearing any.

@x17:

Normally tabs use un name sources(because the sources are made up). The guy driving the car can be sued which will curtail what story is made up by the tabs.

For what it’s worth - here’s what Wikipedia says about how box office revenues are split. In most instances “the distributor” is also the studio that financed and produced the film.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office
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On average, the movie’s distributor receives more than half of the revenue, with the remainder kept by the movie theater. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks. Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger.

If its just the two of them in the car its he said ,he said,no court would bother with a frivolous case like that.

To Passing Through:
I think you didn’t understand my numbers. Then again…

From $800 million that shrek3 made in theaters, 50% ($ 400 million) goes to the studio.The other half goes to the teather’ owners.

OT: I agree with groundcontrol that in tentpoles- like shrek - the studios makes a little more (maybe 60%), but I choose 50% cause we don’t know the exact number.

For the DVD sales the studio again takes part of the gross, cause there is the retailers profit. Than I said the studio gets 50% of the gross (90 million). The other half goes to the stores.

Then, the profits for the studio: 400 + 90 - 160 (budget) - 100 (marketing) + part of the studio of international sales + television rights.

But my point is that for a movie makes a profit (like Moneyball for example), the movie have to make at least two times his budget at the box office. And, if a movie makes only two times his budget, the studio only gets the exact money of the budget. Then, they need the DVD money and the televison money to pay the marketing expenses and for the profit.
The theater owners don’t get part of the profit , they get part of the gross.

53 gitano @ 07/02/2009 at 4:46 pm
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You’re using way too many words. Three will do: I am blind!

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He did it just to worry you, troll. Surely he knows you roll outa bed everymorning to suckle at the teet of MISERY!!.

Then you spend the rest of your unproductive day trying to spread it around ike fresh manure at a picnic site.

To Passing Through:
I think you are right about the DVD in USA. The studio makes more than 50%. But I don’t think that the retailer only gets $ 1,00, cause they have to pay the rental, the salaries and other expenses and have to make a profit.
But you’re right that the studio makes much more than 50%.
But only tentpoles sells a lot of DVDs.

Thanks Briseis. I guess he will not delete the post with my name which is not my post. Oh well..

I love him!!!

OT

This guy is very funny.

http://www.borowitzreport.com

The viedio is not working no more but I saw it yesterday.They make it funny without saying any words.
It is nice they give him ride when he needed it. Funny they were there following him.

I got sidetracked looking for that article on how movie revenues are split between theaters and studios, but I posted a couple of links that summed it up. Anyway…here’s what got me off-track…interesting roles actors have either turned down or been considered for…
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–Sean Connery - Morpheus in The Matrix and The Architect in the sequels, Galdalf in LOTR, Phillip in Alexander (the Val Kilmer role), considered for the role of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music…just imagine a young Sean Connery singing…women would have been wetting their panties in theaters around the globe…
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–Sean Penn - supposedly was considered for the role of Tyler Durden in Fight Club; Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire (Dennis Quaid played the role); Sands in Once Upon A Time in Mexico (Johnny Depp’s role); I don’t see this listed, but Brad’s role in Babel. Brad said Sean Penn had turned the role down, so when they did Tree of Life Penn was giving him shite about having to play anxiety for 6 weeks
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–Tiny Tom - turned down Alexander in Alexander (must not have liked the gay overtones), backed out of Donnie Brasco (Depp). turned down I Am Legend (Will Smith), turned down Jack Traven in Speed (Keanu); considerered for Mick in Bad Boys (Penn), John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe), Edward Scissorhands (Depp…fcuk…I’d have paid money to see that shite!), Jim Morrison in The Doors (Val Kilmer), Sam Wheat in Ghost (Patrick Swayze), Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (Matt Damon…once again scared off by the gay overtones.); attated to play Benjamin Button when Spielberg was doing the project in the early ’90s.
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–Will Smith - Neo in The Matrix, considered for Willy Wonky in the remake, considered for John Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (this is when Brad dropped out when NK had to drop the movie due to scheduling conflicts when The Stepford Wives shoot ran long)
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–Putrid - Emma Peel in The Avengers, just can see this one at all - Ava Gardner in The Aviator (thankfully she had to drop out!), considered for Roxie in Chicago, Rose in The Titanic (but she was too busy stealing the Shakespeare In Love script from Winona Ryder…)
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–Mel Gibson - The Terminator in The Terminator, Batman in Batman (the Michael Keaton version because he was committed to Leathal Weapon), Two Face in Batman Forever (Which, considering his penchat for booze and hookers while considering himself a devout Catholic, would have been appropriate and very self aware.); auditioned for the role of Mozart (that’s just wrong!); turned down John Steed in The Avengers (Ralph Fiennes); turned down Maximus in Gladiator (thank God!); considered for Brad’s role in The Fountain; turned down The Perfect Storm (Which Porgie thanks him repeatedly for because it was his last hit under his own steam - 8 freaking years ago, yet people keep funding his movies); turned down Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Costner with THE single-worst fake British accent evah!); Considered for the role of Elliot Ness in The Untaoubables (Costner again); considered for the role of Wolverine (this must have been when the role was more comedic like the character is in the comic books); turned down Proof of Life (Russell Crowe may not thank Mel, but Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan do, otherwise their marriage would have limped along for another year or two.)
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–Al Pacino - Han Solo in Star Wars, Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy, 3 movies that Dustin Hoffman ended up doing - Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer, and another Dustin Hoffman role in The Marathon Man
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–Rock Hudson - Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur; considered for Mark Rutland in Marnie (Sean Connery); the studio (Universal) wanted him for Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbirth (thank God the producer got his way - Gregory Peck)
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–Russell Crowe - turned down the role of Aragon (Viggo) in LOTR trilogy and Morpheus in The Matrix; considered for Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code; considered for The Fountain when Brad dropped out (Russell could make a very decent living out of doing the movies Brad turns down), considered for the role of Wolverine in X-men (can you see fat Russell from last year getting as ripped as Hugh Jackman? ROTFLMFAOPIMP!)
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–Porgie - was considered for Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code (Porgie’s prolly pissed he didn’t get the role because it was a guaranteed hit under his own steam without having to coattail ride on Brad’s back.); was foolishing going to reprise his role as Batman until his sequel got shitcanned. Turned down World Trade Center (Nic Cage); considered for the role of Artemus Gordon in The Wild Wild West (a dog of a movie, but it would have been a different coattail to ride…); got the role in The Perfect Storm because Harrison Ford turned it down (see…he even sorta rode Harrison Ford’s coattail!); and of course the still-bitter-about role he lost to Brad - J.D. in Thelma & Louise
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–Angie - Charlie’s Angels, supposed Angie was also considered for Fincher’s Panic Room when Nic Kidman had to drop out, but the role went to Jodie Foster. It also says she was considered for the role of Clarice Starling to replace for Jodie Foster in Hannibal…the role went to Julianne Moore.
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–Brad - turned down Neo in The Matrix, Apollo 13, but it doesn’t say which role…probably the Kevin Bacon role took Se7en instead, The Bourne Trilogy, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, Hephaestion in Alexander (Moron! Should have done that instead of Troy and he’d could have ditched X a year sooner!). It’s not listed but he said in an interview a few years ago that he turned down the role of Peter Parker in Spiderman.
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–Sarah Jessica Parker - auditioned for Baby in Dirty Dancing!
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–Geena Davis - Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (LOL! 5′2″ Joe Pesci and 6″1″ Geena Davis…too funny)
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–Denzel Washington - supposedly considered for Reggie Hammond in 48 Hours (Eddie Murphy), Blade in Blade, Paul for Hotel Rwanda (Don Cheadle); turned down I, Robot (Will Smith), turned down Curtis Taylor, Jr. in Dreamgirls because he can’t sing! (Jamie Foxx’s role - he should have turned it down because he was too old for the role!); backed out of playing Alex Cross in Kiss the Girls (Morgan Freeman)
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–Ah-nuld - Turned down John McClane in Die Hard. James Cameron orginally wanted him to play Kyle Reese in The Terminator. Years ago he was considred for Captain America, but his accent was a problem! LOL. No shite.
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–John Wayne - turned down Dirty Harry! Turned down Major Riesman in The Dirty Dozen (Lee Marvin). Turned down a role in Blazing Saddles because, “I can’t be in this picture, it’s too dirty…but I’ll be the first in line to see it.”; wanted to play General Patton but the producer turned him down (George C. Scott got the role…and won an Oscar)
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–X - just for chuckles - supposedly was considered for Samantha for the Bewitched movie. The role went to Nic Kidman. Now…spend the rest of your evening trying to imagine X wriggling her huge ass honker before she had it wittled down twice…
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Okay…enough of that…you can see why I got sidetracked. If you’re interested in seeing what other actors missed out on…I got most of these at the link below, but others I found before I stumbled across the site below…
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http://www.notstarring.com/actors/

# 147 huh @ 07/02/2009 at 8:12 pm
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@Passing Through: WHERE IS THE LINK?
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Jared needs to get rid of that stupid “Reply to” link because it doesn’t quote which post is being replied to in the replier’s reply.
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Where’s the link to what? Are you talking about my post about Brad being a decoy? If so…go back and read the post…I said RadarOnline. Stick “.com” on the end of it and you’ve got the link. It was on their homepage.

# 148 aj @ 07/02/2009 at 8:16 pm
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To Passing Through:
I think you didn’t understand my numbers.
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I understood your numbers. However, YOU are not understanding what I’m saying - I DISAGREE WITH YOUR MATH.
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Frankly, I’m confused as to why you’re obsessed with it. I was just giving an example of why it’s possible for Cam Diaz to have made $30MIL off Shrek
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There’s a basic fact here that’s indisputable - the studios don’t disclose how much they really make on a movie, not even at the box office. Most studios act as their own distributor so that’s factored into how much they’re making on a movie as well. I posted a link that explain it all pretty well, but without the actual numbers it’s all a guessing game…hence your guess and my guess aren’t the same.

aj @ 07/02/2009 at 8:16 pm
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For the DVD sales the studio again takes part of the gross, cause there is the retailers profit. Than I said the studio gets 50% of the gross (90 million). The other half goes to the stores.
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Hi aj, I’ve been following the exchange between yourself and PT. Thought you’d like to know that during the negotiations between the writers union and the studio (and also the actors union and the studio), the union reps and various writers claimed that studios make up to 90% of the DVD sale price. Then there’s TV licenses for re-runs on TV and of course, DVD rentals. TV license fees are pretty much 100% profit. I’m not even sure if you have to send a DVD over to the TV station anymore or just download everything on the internet!!
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Also, we must consider the international component to all of these revenue streams, ie Box office, TV licenses, DVD sales and rentals.
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Someone wrote that in the last 15 years, only 1 of Brad’s movies failed to make over 100m in worldwide box office. The one failure was AOJJ. Angelina is similarly popular internationally.
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But, its not just the international box office receipts of their movies, it’s also all the international tie ins. As Brad and Angelina are popular internationally, their movies do better internationally. Their movies are more likely to be licensed for TV. Their international DVDs sales and rentals are likely to be better then average as well - especially if they are action movies.
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So once you add the DVD sales and rentals and TV Licenses, once you add the INTERNATIONAL component of those DVD sales and rentals and TV licenses into the equation, then we start to understand how these studios make money.
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There are some people who say that because of the rampant piracy in the international market, DVD sales and rentals are not as high as in the US market. This statement is undoubtedly true.
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However, when you consider that international markets include the EU, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, - where copyright laws are quite strictly enforced and respected, you are still talking about a population of more than 500m humans. Most young people in the EU speak English - at least well enough to enjoy a movie. Same with Japan. They may also dub movies into the local languages.
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I won’t try to estimate what the international DVD sales, rentals and TV licenses are but I think it is safe to say that whatever the studios make in north america, its almost all PURE PROFIT!!
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# 154 aj @ 07/02/2009 at 8:27 pm
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To Passing Through:
I think you are right about the DVD in USA. The studio makes more than 50%. But I don’t think that the retailer only gets $ 1,00, cause they have to pay the rental, the salaries and other expenses and have to make a profit.
But you’re right that the studio makes much more than 50%.
But only tentpoles sells a lot of DVDs.
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UGH! You are WAY too literal. I said “FOR EXAMPLE”. I don’t work in the retail industry so I don’t have any idea what the real wholesale & retail prices for DVDs are, hence the wording “FOR EXAMPLE”. Also, you’re forgetting that stores sell more than one product. They don’t make a huge profit on every item they sell. They make small profits on every item or they don’t stay in business very long - especially not with Wal-mart around. If I’m at Target and I see a DVD that’s $21.99 I immediately say to myself, “I can get that for $3 less at Wal-mart…” and off I go to Wal-mart. Luckily for Target some people HATE Wal-mart. Frankly I love any store that saves me money. Wal-mart is my friend…I’ll just ignore the 400 illegal aliens slaving away in the produce department for 22 hours every day..

# 165 sad @ 07/02/2009 at 10:18 pm
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can someone explain how Harrison For is the highest paid actor?
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In lieu of an upfront salary on the Indiana Jones movie he got gross points - a percentage of the worldwide box office total. The movie made $786,636,033. Let’s give Forbes the benefit of the doubt for sec and say they got his salary right - $68 million. That’s roughly 8.65% of the GROSS. Which is entirely possible. Johnny Deep supposedly made $80MIL on the last Pirates movie…and about the same on #2. Which is why he can afford a private island…but doesn’t explain his crappy teeth…

OK one of my favorite classic movies is on TCM. The Women. I laughed at the thought of the remake with those lame actresses. There is no comparing the two sets of actresses.

Re; Harrison Ford. it pays to have a good agent. I wonder if he still gets some kind of royalty from Star Wars (thanks Jared for reminding me of that movie, ahem).

# 177 ot @ 07/02/2009 at 11:19 pm
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Indy Jones made 780 million world wide. Budget 185 mill
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http://www.slate.com/id/2118819/
Gross Misunderstanding
Forget about the box office
By Edward Jay EpsteinPosted Monday, May 16, 2005
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Each of the major studios, however, supplies the real numbers to its trade association, the MPAA, including a detailed breakdown of the money they actually receive, country by country, from movie theaters, home video, network television, local television, pay television, and pay-per-view, which is then privately circulated among the six studios as “All Media Revenue Report.” (To see these private data click here.)
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These numbers tell the story. Ticket sales from theaters provided 100 percent of the studios’ revenues in 1948; in 2003, they accounted for less than 20 percent. Instead, home entertainment provided 82 percent of the 2003 revenues. In terms of profits, the studios can make an even larger proportion from home entertainment since most, if not all, of the theatrical revenues go to pay for the prints and advertising required to get audiences into theaters. (Video, DVDs, and TV have much lower marketing costs.)
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This profit reality has transformed the way Hollywood operates. Theatrical releases now essentially serve as launching platforms for videos, DVDs, network TV, pay TV, games, and a host of other products. Even so, the box-office totals are losing their traditional influence. Up until a few years ago, the results from the U.S. box office largely drove secondary markets, especially video. If a film had a huge opening, the video chains would order 200,000 or more copies (at $60 or more apiece wholesale) for rentals. But this buying formula ended when consumers began buying DVDs at mass retailers. By 2004, Wal-Mart was accounting for more than one-third of the studios’ revenues in video and DVD.
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For merchandisers like Wal-Mart, DVDs are a means to lure consumers, who may buy other products, into the store. The box-office numbers are of little relevance (especially since it’s teenagers who create huge opening weekends, and they cannot afford to buy more profitable goods like plasma TVs). Instead of box-office results, merchandisers look for movies with stars such as Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have traction with their highly desired older customers. For example, whereas the sophisticated mind-bending love story Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind had a dismal seventh-place finish in the box-office gross sweepstakes—earning a mere $8.1 million for the theaters during its opening weekend—thanks to the presence of recognizable names like Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, it did extremely well on DVD, selling more than 1.5 million copies during its first week in the stores.

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LOL! Yeah, this is why he will never win an Academy Award. He got lucky just being nominated by a part in a well told story is all..wont ever happen again though. What a loser. Now that his looks have faded, he’ trying to act as if it’s all his idea by say “this is a young man’s game” not if you can actually act Brad! LOL!!!

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