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Considered to be one of the biggest box-office disasters of all time. Pluto Nash - Im Kampf gegen die Mondmafia (2002) is the largest in terms of financial loss with a budget of 100 million dollars, and a domestic gross of 4.41 million dollars. Town & Country cost around 90 million dollars to make, and it pulled in only 6.7 million dollars at the U.S. box-office.
Buck Henry was hired for what was originally only going to be a few weeks of script polishing work. Eventually, he stayed on for several months and ended up earning (by some accounts) three million dollars for rewriting roughly half of the script. Henry has stated that he bought a new house with the money he made on this "quick rewrite assignment".
Following the film's failure, Warren Beatty wasn't involved with another film until Regeln spielen keine Rolle (2016).
Over forty million dollars had been spent on actor and writer salaries even before the cameras began rolling.
The film was released three years after filming initially began in 1998.
Charlton Heston's 75th film.
Filming was originally supposed to wrap by the fall of 1998 for a summer or fall 1999 release. Various problems occurred during filming, however, including Warren Beatty's meticulous demand for many takes.
Filming had to be shut down after five months so that Diane Keaton, Garry Shandling, and Jenna Elfman could honor prior commitments. Shandling was in Good Vibrations - Sex vom anderen Stern (2000), while Keaton was in Aufgelegt! (2000), which she also directed. It would take a full year before they could gather the cast back together to film the new pages written by Buck Henry.
Reshoots were scheduled to begin on April 10, 2000, and expected to last just a couple of weeks. However, filming continued through June 2000, when it finally wrapped two years after principal photography originally began. The reshoots included all of the new scenes with screenwriter Buck Henry joining the cast as a divorce mediator. A new climax at a fashion gala involving all of the main female characters was written and filmed. Also the closure scenes with Garry Shandling and Goldie Hawn at the antique store and the scene with Warren Beatty and Nastassja Kinski on the street near the end were added. The scene between Beatty and Kinski in Manhattan as she's hailing a cab was actually filmed in downtown Los Angeles and was one of the last scenes filmed.
The winter mountain scenes (filmed in Sun Valley, Idaho) started filming in the early winter. Unfortunately, there was no snow on the ground at the time. Several scenes were filmed with man-made snow. After filming these scenes, over a foot of natural snow feel the next day. Some of the scenes were re-shot in the "natural" background.
The production was hounded by re-shoots, rewrites, recasting, bad advance press, and an increasing budget.
Gérard Depardieu was cast but had to be replaced by Garry Shandling because of a road accident.
Filming was completed in 1999, but the movie was not released until 2001.
One of three cinema movie collaborations of Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty. The other two films are Der Millionenraub (1971) and Shampoo (1975).
Peter Chelsom and Warren Beatty clashed frequently over various details in the script and the visuals.
A sequence in Sun Valley in which artificial snow was created to make up for the absence of real snow on the ski slopes was re-shot after over a foot of natural snow fell on the resort.
Such was the protracted nature of the film's production, it burned through 13 release dates.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Warren Beatty | - | Porter | |
| Nastassja Kinski | - | Alex | |
| Diane Keaton | - | Ellie | |
| Goldie Hawn | - | Mona | |
| Garry Shandling | - | Griffin | |
| Vincent Lascoumes | - | Waiter | |
| William Hootkins | - | Barney (as Bill Hootkins) | |
| Terri Hoyos | - | Yolanda | |
| Josh Hartnett | - | Tom (as Joshua Hartnett) | |
| Tricia Vessey | - | Alice | |
| Marc Casabani | - | Omar | |
| Del Zamora | - | Alejandro | |
| Katharine Towne | - | Holly | |
| Tony Abatemarco | - | McKlellen | |
| Eve Crawford | - | Margaret |
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