Monday, April 15, 2019

What did Vestron do with its "Dirty Dancing" earnings? -- Part 4

Continued from Part 3

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In Part 1 of this series, I guesstimated that Vestron earned about $25 million from Dirty Dancing during the years 1987-1992. Now that I have thought about this some more, I suppose that Vestron got only half ($12.5 million?) of those 1987-1992 earnings.

Linda Gottlieb got the other half. By 2019, her net worth has grown to $248 million -- a quarter of a billion dollars! Gottlieb got fabulously rich from the movie.

(See my previous article Eleanor Bergstein never got rich from Dirty Dancing.)

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Below are five more movies that Vestron co-produced, squandering its Dirty Dancing earnings.

(The date after the movie's title is the movie's release date.)

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The Beat -- June 3, 1988

A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.

I did not find any cost or earnings information.


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Waxwork -- June 17, 1988

A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.

The movie cost $1.5 million to make. It earned about $800,000 at the box office.


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Paramedics -- June 1988

Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.

I did not find the cost information. The movie earned about $400,000 at the box office.


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Young Guns -- August 12, 1988

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

The movie cost about $13 million to make and earned about $46 million in US theaters. Vestron received money only from foreign theaters and from video cassettes.


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The Lair of the White Worm -- September 14, 1988

When an archeologist uncovers a strange skull in foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further unexplainable occurrences.

The movie cost about $2.5 million to make and earned about $1.2 million at the box office.



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Continued in Part 5

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