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Corman's deal with Hellman and Nicholson was that if the film went over budget, any additional costs would come out of their own pockets. Despite the initial problems, the film was completed for the original budget estimate.
Corman's deal with Hellman and Nicholson was that if the film went over budget, any additional costs would come out of their own pockets. Despite the initial problems, the film was completed for the original budget estimate.
So, if you went over budget, it came out of your own salary? Yes. That happened on THE SHOOTING and RIDE THE WHIRLWIND. Jack [Nicholson] and I went over budget through no fault of our own. We had three days of rain on a two week shoot. It came out of our salary.
Hellman and Jack Nicholson, who produced, wrote, and acted in Ride in the Whirlwind, and had a smaller role in The Shooting, had agreed that if they went over budget on either film, they would pay the overage out of their own pockets. Thus they were very careful to keep within the budget for each.
Feb 1, 2020 · Hellman filmed The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind in just 17 days each. He and Nicholson agreed that if they went over budget, they’d pay the difference out of their own pockets; a pact he later regretted, when Nicholson turned out to be an obsessive penny-counter.
Nov 17, 2014 · Filmmaker: Did your relationship with Nicholson change at all when he went from being an actor to being an actor-producer on the two Westerns? Hellman: He felt a real responsibility to the money part of it. We made the movies for $75,000 a piece and couldn’t go over.
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Nov 26, 2014 · western, Hellman came into the world of filmmaking through the world of Roger Corman by helming such low-budget items as “The Beast from the Haunted Cave” (1959) and the back-to-back war movies “Back Door to Hell”
