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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Basic_InstinctBasic Instinct - Wikipedia

    Basic Instinct opened in theaters in the United States and Canada on March 20, 1992, and became one of the highest-grossing films of that year. It debuted at number one at the US box office, grossing $15 million in its opening weekend.

  2. www.indiewire.com › features › generalEverything You Never Knew About 'Basic Instinct,' 30 Years Later

    Mar 19, 2022 · Paul Verhoeven ‘s twisted murder mystery debuted March 20, 1992, and grossed over $352 million worldwide as audiences fell for the psychological game between an overworked and under-loved...

  3. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 7694415 Thrilling Facts About Basic Instinct - Mental Floss

    • Garin Pirnia
    • THE SCRIPT SOLD FOR A RECORD $3 MILLION. Back in the day, spec scripts could sell for millions of dollars. Joe Eszterhas joined that club when he sold Basic Instinct—a script that took him just 13 days to write—for $3 million in 1990.
    • CATHERINE AND NICK WERE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. Before he became a multimillionaire screenwriter, Eszterhas was a police reporter for Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer.
    • MICHAEL DOUGLAS AND PAUL VERHOEVEN APPROACHED THE MOVIE AS IF IT WERE A DETECTIVE NOVEL. Verhoeven wanted to make a modern version of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller—except with a lot more sex.
    • THE ICE PICK SCENE GAVE SHARON STONE NIGHTMARES. In a 1992 interview with Playboy, Stone revealed that she didn’t mind the sex scenes but did mind the violence.

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  5. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2021Sharon Stone on How Basic Instinct Nearly Broke Her, Before ...

    Mar 18, 2021 · The day Basic Instinct came out in theaters I hired a limo. Mimi and I started in Harlem and went to movie theaters all over NYC, from one side of town to the other, into the wee hours of the...

  6. movies.fandom.com › wiki › Basic_InstinctBasic Instinct | Moviepedia | Fandom

    Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. The film follows San Francisco police detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star.

  7. www.bbc.com › culture › articleBasic Instinct defined the erotic thriller – and killed it

    Making an erotic thriller after Basic Instinct was like making a space opera just after Star Wars came out. It might do well at the box office, but it could only ever come across as a pale...

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  9. www.timeout.com › movies › basic-instinctBasic Instinct 1992, directed by Paul Verhoeven | Film review

    Jan 9, 2015 · Investigated for an over-zealous approach to his work, saddled with a drink and relationships problem, he becomes slowly embroiled with the case, then with the suspect, when a former rock star is...

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