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Dr. Dahl was once a fight doctor, working ringside at boxing matches around NYC to ensure the fighters stayed safe.
Because nobody, nobody — not now, not ever — knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn't going to work at the box office".
Despite the film already being out there - and doing absolutely stellar work at the box office - Reynolds has reprised his role for a video to fans, poking fun at controversy-monger Kanye West in the process.
But those are relatively simple metrics, and notoriously unreliable; as the screenwriter William Goldman famously said, "nobody, nobody — not now, not ever — knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn't going to work at the box office".
Watching Mr. Dangin at work at his Box Studios on Broadway near Spring Street, which employs 40 people, is like ducking behind the curtain to see the last stage in the manufacture of film and fashion celebrities.
In fact, it's rare for music docs that don't contain a significant portion of performance to work at the box office, the recent Marley (£954,000) being a notable exception.
In short, Eden previously hired tech pros who work at big box retailers (Best Buy) or in small tech shops to pick up work for $30/hour as contractors.
In screenwriter William Goldman's famous words, "Nobody, nobody — not now, not ever — knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn't going to work at the box office".
We're at the beginning of a renaissance where people are realizing black films can not only work at the box office, but they can work because there's been a void". .
Years later, Jonathan Rhys Meyers still rues the cool reception to his 2008 "The Children of Huang Shi". "Sometimes you can make a film that's so extraordinary, quite a beautiful film, and it doesn't work" at the box office, says the actor by phone from New York, "and sometimes you do a film and it's, 'Christ almighty, how the hell did that work?' You can't judge it.
