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Financial analysis of Showgirls (1995) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
- September 22nd, 1995 (Wide) by MGM
- February 4th, 1997 by MGM Video
- 131 minutes
Audience restriction due to the NC-17 rating, coupled with poor reviews, resulted in the film becoming a box-office bomb, grossing just $37.8 million against a budget of $45 million.
- Joe Eszterhas Came Up with The Idea While He Was on vacation.
- Kyle Maclachlan Was “Gobsmacked” When He Saw The Movie For The First time.
- Quentin Tarantino Loves it.
- Feminist Gloria Steinem Wanted to Work with Joe Eszterhas.
- Elizabeth Berkley Has Finally Made Peace with The Film.
- Eszterhas Thinks Critics Would’Ve Liked The Film More If Madonna Had Been Cast.
- Eszterhas Also Told Teenagers to Use Fake Ids to Get Into Screenings.
- He Regrets Calling The Film “A Deeply Religious experience.”
- Showgirls Is The Highest-Grossing NC-17 Rated Film of All time.
- Gina Gershon Wasn’T Supposed to Use A Texas Accent, But Did It anyway.
Joe Eszterhas was fresh off the success of 1992’s Basic Instinctwhen he came up with the idea for Showgirls while on vacation in Maui. The screenwriter—who also co-wrote the script for Flashdance (1983)—sold the ideaof a “rock musical about Las Vegas showgirls” before it was even written. He reportedly just jotted down the premise on a napkin, then...
In a 2012 interview with The A.V. Club, Kyle MacLachlan (Zack Carey) talked about the first time he saw Showgirls. “I was absolutely gobsmacked,” he said. “I said, ‘This is horrible. Horrible!’ And it’s a very slow, sinking feeling when you’re watching the movie, and the first scene comes out, and you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s a really bad scene.’ But y...
In the 1998 book Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Tarantino applauded Showgirls’s status as a mainstream exploitation film. “The thing that’s great about Showgirls, and I mean great with a capital great, is that only one other time in the last 20 years has a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie,” explained Tarantino. "...
In his 752-page autobiography, Eszterhas claimed that, after Showgirls came out, Gloria Steinem approached him about a film project. “Gloria Steinem and I had a meeting about doing a movie about the young Marilyn Monroe,” he wrote. “I took the idea to Paul [Verhoeven] and he’d turned it down. The media had a lot of fun with it, though: Gloria Stein...
Berkley attended a 20th anniversary screening of the film in 2015 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where she spokecandidly about the humiliation she felt when the film came out. “When a dream is happening, it’s unlike anything you can ever imagine. Which is why when the movie came out it was more painful than anything you can imagine,” she told t...
Madonna was considered for the part of Cristal Connors, which eventually went to Gina Gershon. Eszterhas wrote in Hollywood Animal that Verhoeven didn’t like “Madoo’s” (his nickname for Madonna) input, so she wasn’t cast. “Had Paul liked Madoo’s script ideas, then the critics would have liked Showgirls better because it would have been Madoo’s scri...
Eszterhas became known as “the most reviled man in America” because, when the NC-17 movie was released, he issued a press release telling teens to bring fake IDs. In Hollywood Animal he wrote, “Had I not told teenagers to bring their fake IDs, I would’ve avoided making a colossal asshole of myself.” He also explains his motive for the teen IDs: “Th...
When the film came out, Eszterhas said it was “a deeply religious experience,” but in a 2006 interview, he clarified his comment. “At the end of the picture, [Nomi] does turn her back on all of it,” he said. “The final image is of her walking away from everything that’s made her a star, and in a sense, she cleanses herself. But to call it a deeply ...
Though getting slapped with an NC-17 is usually a death knell at the box office, Showgirls was made with that rating in mind. Showgirls has a lifetime gross of $20,350,754, which is good enough for first place. Other NC-17-rated films in recent years, such as Shame (2013), Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), and Killer Joe (another film starring Gina...
As written, Gershon’s character Cristal was from Texas. But in a 2017 interview with The Daily Beast, the actress said that Verhoeven was against her speaking with an accent. Instead, she spoke in a Texas twang all day on the set in the hope that nobody would notice. “It drives me crazy,” she said about watching Showgirls. “I see parts where I wish...
Showgirls opened on September 22, 1995, losing more than half it's budget at the domestic box-office by grossing roughly $20 million against a $45 million budget. As the film nears its 25th anniversary, here are 10 behind-the-scenes facts about the making of Showgirls.
Jun 7, 2020 · Made for $45 million and grossing just $37.8 million in theaters, Showgirls is a poster boy for the box office bomb. However, 25 years later, that critical and commercial disaster...
Nov 25, 2015 · Did you ever see “Showgirls 2”? I saw it on the internet. It was made very cheaply.
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Mar 18, 2020 · As the screenwriter behind the wildly lucrative Basic Instinct (1992), Eszterhas had carte blanche in Hollywood at the time – he was paid $2m (£1.6m) to write the script, and received a...
