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- Shot on a budget of $33 million, the movie made more than $62 million worldwide.
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Financial analysis of Snakes on a Plane (2006) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
- August 18th, 2006 (Wide) by New Line
- January 2nd, 2007 by New Line Home Video
- 106 minutes
Snakes on a Plane did not meet its estimates and grossed $15.25 million over its opening weekend, a disappointment for New Line Cinema. [4] In its second weekend, the film fell to sixth place with $6.4 million, a more than fifty percent drop from its opening weekend revenue.
- The Original Script Was Turned Down by Every Hollywood Studio.
- Samuel L. Jackson Agreed to Star in The Movie Before He Even Read The script.
- Jackson Almost Quit When The Title Was changed.
- Jackson Also Got Upset Over The Intended PG-13 Rating.
- Bobby Cannavale Didn't Want to Be in The Movie.
- Vegas Got in on The build-up.
- The Director Originally Wanted More Dangerous Snakes.
- All The Strike Sequences Were Computer-Generated.
- The Snakes Gave Jackson His space.
- The "Motherf*Cker" Line Was Written by A Fan.
David Dalessandro, the associate vice chancellor of university development at the University of Pittsburgh, wrote a screenplay called Venom after reading a 1992 magazine article about Indonesian brown tree snakes climbing onto planes during World War II. His first two drafts were about one poisonous snake getting loose on a plane. After seeing Alie...
Jackson read in the trades that Ronny Yu was directing a movie called Snakes on a Plane. Intrigued, Jackson emailed Yu and asked him what the movie was about. "And he said, 'Poisonous snakes get loose on an airplane.' And I'm like, 'Wow, think I can be in that?' And he was like, 'You really want to be in it?' And I said 'Yes, I really want to be in...
New Line Cinema changed the movie's title to Pacific Air 121, with the official explanation that the studio "didn't want to give too much away" about the movie. Jackson disagreed with that logic. ''I was like, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR F***ING MINDS?! That's EXACTLY what you want to do!'' he told Entertainment Weekly. ''How else are you going to get peop...
After insisting some R-rated versions of scenes should be shot in case New Line changed their minds about making Snakes on a Plane a PG-13 movie, the popularity of the 2005 R-rated comedy Wedding Crashers helped convince the studio president that Snakes "needed more intensity." They went back for re-shoots four months after filming wrappedto add to...
Earlier this year, Bobby Cannavale admitted that he ultimately trusts his gut when deciding on movie and television roles. The one time he listened to his managers was when they insisted he work on Snakes on a Plane, playing Special Agent Hank Harris. "I was like, ‘Guys, it’s called Snakes on a Plane!!!’ I remember this conversation," Cannavale rec...
One Las Vegas booking agency took betson how many times Jackson would "utter his crude catchphrase during the 105-minute film."
David R. Ellis requested taipans and vipers and other lethal snake species. Snake wrangler Jules Sylvester insisted it would be too dangerousto use actual poisonous snakes on an airplane full of people and a camera crew. Instead, Sylvester provided a bunch of look-alikes: the harmless tiger rat snake rattles its tail like a rattlesnake to defend it...
Only one third of the snakes were real. No more than 60 real snakes were on set at any one time. The snakes were regularly swapped out during filming because, according to Sylvester, "They get tired after 15 or 20 minutes, so we have to change snakes continuously."
"I never even touched a snake while we were shooting," Jackson admitted. "My agents put into the contract: 'No snakes within 25 feet of Mr. Jackson.' They were more scared of the snakes than I was.''
Chris Rohan created an R-rated audio trailer for Snakes on a Plane, just off of the title. A Jackson sound-alike shouted, "I want these motherf*cking snakes off the motherf*cking plane!" Fans then vociferously claimed they wanted Jackson to say that in the real movie. During the R-rated re-shoots, Jackson and the studio obliged.
- Roger Cormier
- 1 min
Snakes on a Plane opened 16 years ago today. Despite the immense internet buzz due to its title, premise, and casting, the film's gross revenue did not live up to expectations. Receiving mixed reviews, the $33 million movie only grossed US$62 million, a box office disappointment.
Aug 18, 2021 · Fifteen years ago, the Samuel L. Jackson thriller Snakes on a Plane became the first meme movie — an unlikely online sensation generating viral content that ranged from blog posts and fan art...
Aug 18, 2021 · Happy 15 years, Snakes on a Plane. The ridiculous 2006 Samuel L. Jackson thriller was something of a disappointment during its initial run, earning only $34 million despite months of intense internet scrutiny leading up to its release.
Sep 14, 2016 · Obviously, Snakes On A Plane is part of a tradition of creature features, and most of those tend to be cheap B movies. But its production budget was around $36 million, which isn’t small...
