Ridley Scott was inspired by this film, but his disaster in the box office was such that he sank his studio

Some works sometimes have an arm by studios that do not delay the injection of astronomical funds always in a dangerous company, in a chain, in front of an audience from the birth of an idea or concept.

These are not hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the marketing costs of studios, which will say the opposite. Because success, despite these sometimes pharaohs, is not always. Especially if we consider an example for a job that cost $ 100 million, the profitability barrier should be at least 2 to 2.5 times, which is subject to the production budget.

There are many examples. But most famous, probably because it was exactly the first of this scale, was a disaster in the butterfum with the fall of the Roman Empire, which seals the fate of its production company …

A song of swan

The 1950s were an authentic golden age for the butterfly genre, in particular the Bible butterfum: Ben-Huri, Ten Commandments, or Quo Vadis, for several names. In the 1960s, the butterfly wave continued with some success, but less than the last decade.

And there were two terrible chess in the box office: Cleopatra Pharaonic with its chaotic production and Elizabeth Taylor. Sister Falling of the Roman EmpireReleased a year later, in 1964.

The film was directed by the great director, Anthony Mann, who signed Cid two years before the legendary Spanish hero, who was located by Charlton Heston. They held Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Steven Boyd, Christopher Plumer, Omar Sharif and Mel Ferrer, Falling of the Roman Empire The battles of the intestines between the dishonest closet and General Livius, the worthy disciple of Mark-Aukel and want Rome to be the empire that is resistant to misery and barbaric invasions.

The story should logically remind you of a certain gladiator of Ridley Scott. This is normal; Mann’s film is the main source of inspiration, even in its scenes. Like most of this scale, Mann’s film is worth a fortune: $ 19 million. Or today the equivalent of $ 189 million.

To say that he received a box in the boxing office is Euphemism, less than $ 5 million. It was produced by Samuel Bronston performances, named after an American producer, who created his company in 1943.

In the 1960s, he invested in disproportionate budgets in these films. Butterfum King of Kings in 1961. CidNoted above, in the same year. 55 days of Beijing, in 1963. The works, moreover, in the middle of Franco’s Spain, in the studios, located far from Madrid.

A fatal disaster for an industrial company

A financial disaster Falling of the Roman Empire It was such that he killed his manufacturing company, which was thrown into the liquidation in June 1964. During the bankruptcy case, which was followed by Bronston, criminal prosecution was accused of swearing when he said he had no bank account in Switzerland. Nevertheless, he appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which he won, but many years later in January 1973.

This case and the liquidation of Samuel Bronston’s performances destroyed his career, even if he continued his work, in particular in the early 1980s, a strong subject of Allen Corno.

“I like to talk about my father’s films. I think it is good to remember it anyway” Announced Andrea Bronston, a producer’s daughter, in the newspaper UniverseIn an interesting article published in 2021. “But I spend my life explaining that I am not rich. My brothers and I have inherited because despite his breathtaking career, he has finally lost everything.”