Disney replaces Crowe's pricey Alamo
(Teletext.com) -- Disney has dropped the Russell Crowe-starring movie about the battle of the Alamo because of its $135m price tag and replaced it with a $75m version.
Crowe stood to earn $19m from the film while director Ron Howard was to have pocketed $10m.
It's believed that Disney thought the budget too huge - the film would have had to make at least $400m just to go into profit. Given the subject, this was not likely.
Howard's Imagine Entertainment would have made 37 cents from every dollar of the gross if Disney went ahead.
Instead Disney has opted for a considerably cheaper production to be directed by John Lee Hancock (The Rookie).
The film is a remake of The Alamo (1960), starring John Wayne, Richard Widmark and Laurence Harvey, about Mexico's 1836 invasion of Texas and the fight to protect a US mission.
(Teletext.com) -- Disney has dropped the Russell Crowe-starring movie about the battle of the Alamo because of its $135m price tag and replaced it with a $75m version.
Crowe stood to earn $19m from the film while director Ron Howard was to have pocketed $10m.
It's believed that Disney thought the budget too huge - the film would have had to make at least $400m just to go into profit. Given the subject, this was not likely.
Howard's Imagine Entertainment would have made 37 cents from every dollar of the gross if Disney went ahead.
Instead Disney has opted for a considerably cheaper production to be directed by John Lee Hancock (The Rookie).
The film is a remake of The Alamo (1960), starring John Wayne, Richard Widmark and Laurence Harvey, about Mexico's 1836 invasion of Texas and the fight to protect a US mission.
