A Hollywood Reporter article claims How Do You Know, the new James L. Brooks romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Jack Nicholson, cost $120 million (before tax breaks brought it down to $100 million). Jesus, who planned this, the producers of the Spider-Man musical?
One reason for the price tag is old-fashioned salaries for the pic’s talent: Reese Witherspoon ($15 million), Jack Nicholson ($12 million), Owen Wilson ($10 million) and Paul Rudd ($3 million) received their quotes, and Brooks will earn about $10 million plus backend for writing, producing and directing. That’s about $50 million for the major talent alone.
The cost also was high because of the time Brooks devoted to production and postproduction and his decision to reshoot the beginning and end of the movie. “He’s slow and meticulous,” a person familiar with the production says. [THR]
For comparison, Watchmen cost $130 million, and the upcoming Spider-Man reboot cost $80 million. But those don’t have Reese Witherspoon, so I guess it’s a wash. Even more amazing than the price tag is that they managed to spend 100 million dollars on this despite REESE WITHERSPOON WEARING THE SAME SHIRT FOR THE ENTIRE F*CKING MOVIE.
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My porn name is Crease Netherpoon.
paul rudd 3 million? you’ve gotta be shitting me… they should just give him the combined 50 million and have him dance on screen… 300 million domestic and 5 Academy Awards, easily
Joss Whedon loves those shirts because they’re the only kind he can pull over his head.
How do you know when your love triangle is actually a pyramid scheme.
I’ll gladly pay $10 to see a sequel to this starring Jackie Chan kicking everybody’s ass titled “I Know You Are, But Who Am I?’
That blue really brings out the uptight, unlovable cunt in her eyes.
New romcom ends up turning off women viewers torpedoing men’s sex for a movie plans. Would you believe, Reese withers poon.
Owen Wilson’s nose also took home a cool $5 mil.
Is it true Reese Witherspoon signs off her Tweets “Keep Guntin’!”? Guy’cha!
We all want to know what kind of price tag Mammy Rottweiler fetched (woot woot!)
OK, soooooo $50mil in lead salary, but they still spent $70mil on a fucking romcom? What were the sets made of truffles and cocaine?
Really? The only money well spent was that $3 million on Paul Rudd.
He’s like the human equivalent of an adorable puppy video on YouTube. I can’t watch without aaaaw’ing and wanting to hug him.
They just cribbed a song title from a recent Disney film and named some random movie stars? And someone gave them $120 million in cash?
That’s it, I am getting to work tonight on my script for a RomCom starring Jennifer Aniston, Josh Duhamel, and Jeff Bridges. I’ll call it “I Thought I Lost You” from the Bolt soundtrack, because that’s the one that John Travolta and Hannah Montana sang together, so it is fitting inspiration for one of these shitfests … er, charming tales of GIMMETHEFUCKIN’ MONEY!!!!!!
Firing Owen Wilson would have cut the tampon budget in half.
Let’s hope the neckhole gets bigger from the hardcore Rudd on Spoon attempted rape scene.
Reece Witherspoon? Expensive animatronics.
Those pictures and Ryan Philippe’s chafed penis tell me so.
Well, there’s the expense of Wilson’s sober companion on set (to keep him off the cocaine), petty cash to get said companion to look the other way (while he does said cocaine), Wilson’s cocaine budget (that’s about a million right there), Wilson’s hooker budget and let’s not forget Wilson’s insurance premiums (which are significantly higher ever since he tried to off himself).