Audiences also showed a certain degree of disgust at this, so much so that some people thought that it had a huge negative effect on the box office of the movie after that.

And Elizabeth's frequent illnesses during the filming of "Cleopatra", and in order to accommodate her, the filming location was changed from England to Rome, and the filming time was delayed again and again, and the director changed one after another.

In the end, "Cleopatra", which took three directors and three years to complete, became the biggest disaster in Hollywood history!

The production cost of 44 million is converted into a modern amount, which is equivalent to 400 million US dollars in 2010!

is almost equal to the cost of "Titanic" plus "Avatar", and in Sid's era, it is definitely a well-deserved king of bad movies.

The film failed at the box office after its release, and was unanimously criticized by audiences and critics.

In terms of the Oscars, the film received the final 9 nominations that year, but most of them were non-acting nominations, and Taylor, who had high hopes, did not get any results.

The final results of 20th Century Fox are only 4 Oscars such as makeup and visual effects, which are not the same as the results of "Ben Hur".

Fox was nearly bankrupt due to the huge failure of "Cleopatra" and had to sell 263 acres of location to make ends meet.

As for the filmmaker, Walter Wagner, the gold medal producer at the time, also said goodbye to the film industry completely because of this Waterloo.

At the same time, among Hollywood's big-name actors and directors, if they smash the movie three times in a row, they will completely become box office poison, and the "former rule" that is not favored by film companies is also very famous.

Although the luck factor is illusory, whether it is a person or a crew, once this does not go well, it will be stuffed with teeth when you really drink water.

And the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean", which is currently in constant trouble, has become the object of "curse" in the eyes of many people.

"Actually, you're still worried about the 'pirate movie'. Sid was inquiring, but his tone was affirmative.

Lindsay next to him and Henry and the others opposite couldn't help but nod, and Henry spoke: "Yes, Boss, there are many people who are worried about this. ”

Hollywood's "sea phobia" has not been a day or two, starting from the successive fiascos of "Cut Throat Island" and "Future Water World" nearly ten years ago, after that, no one in the whole of Hollywood dared to touch the idea of "pirates" anymore.

Whether it is a production company, a gold medal producer, or even CAA, which has always been afraid of heaven and earth, no one dares to touch pirate films, not even sea-related films.

The only one who rubbed the edges and "survived" was probably James Cameron's "Titanic".

But Sid's head-on challenge to the pirate film this time has been looked down upon by many people from the beginning, and many people have the idea of not being afraid of the stage when watching a play.

In the past few years, from Fire Lion Pictures to Fire Lion Group, Sid has gone too smoothly, which makes many people can't help but worry about it.

From movies to television, to music and fashion, the Lion Group has taken a big step, but it has also walked very steadily, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that a group of elite professional managers led by Shirley Sandberg, COO of the group, have played a very big role.

This decisive difference from DreamWorks quickly transformed Fire Lion from an independent production company into a comprehensive media group that includes film, television, animation, comics, music, fashion, and women's underwear.

And you must know that it has been less than five years since the establishment of Fire Lion Pictures!

In other words, it took five years for Fire Lion to complete the goal that DreamWorks has not completed in nearly ten years, and has become a giant crocodile-level enterprise comparable to the seven major film industries.

In the past few years, headhunting calls to poach executives such as Shirley and Mr. Charles have made dozens of headhunting calls every day, and if it weren't for Sid's annual payment of tens of millions of dollars to each of his executives in the form of equity dividends, then his core team would have been washed back and forth a few times ago.

Even so, the middle-level managers and employees of Fire Lion Pictures and Fire Lion TV have been poached by people with high salaries, and have become the target of the entire Hollywood production company for a period of time.

Later, Sid and Shirley teamed up to formulate a series of new rules, and the film company that poached a large number of people soon discovered that these middle-level cadres from the Fire Lion did not really know the secret of the Fire Lion's success.

Just like after "Youth Musical" and "Hannah Montana", everyone knows that the trend of youth musicals is back, but in a series of follow-up works, none of them can really compare with the first two.

It was Disney's youth comedy "The Princess Diaries" last year that made a small success, but the films that purely followed the route of song and dance films all collectively encountered Waterloo.

After "Ghost Record", low-budget DV horror films have become a canon in the independent film circle, and the entire independent circle has been full of all kinds of shoddy DV hand-made horror films for several years, which eventually made the entire Hollywood producer "smell the DV color change".

The entertainment industry is not a manufacturing industry, and you can simply copy it by watching it, especially in a super competitive market like North America, even if you know what type of film is popular, not everyone can successfully follow the trend.

There are too many impression factors in this, and the driving force behind the success of the Fire Lion ultimately points to one person - Sid himself.

So the craze of Hollywood studios chasing Fire Lion employees has come to an end.

After Sid through last year's "Harry Potter" and this year's "Spider-Man", Sid has made Sid stand firmly in the director industry in the circle of "a god, a supergod" first-line director, although there is still one step away from the "big director club", but he is already the youngest first-line A-level director in Hollywood history.

If it weren't for Sid's only making films for his own company, the script and salary invitation begging him to make a film would have been high enough to bury him.

Although Spielberg also has his own DreamWorks, whether it is himself or DreamWorks, he actually needs to be attached to several large studios, Spielberg still has unfinished film contracts with Universal, Paramount and other companies, and DreamWorks needs to distribute films through Paramount.

This largely weakened the threat of DreamWorks to the Big Seven, especially the film contract between Spielberg and the big studios, which was an important prop they used to counterbalance DreamWorks.

But Sid, a first-line director with more commercial achievements in the new century, actually only makes and distributes films for his own company, which makes the seven major studios choke in their throats.