Western Fantasies About Eastern Culture

The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps grossed 120 million US dollars in North America, but only 43 million US dollars overseas. Aaron was not particularly satisfied with the result;

Final Destination made 55 million US dollars in North America and another 60 million US dollars overseas, pushing its worldwide Box Office past 110 million US dollars. For a low-budget production that had cost only 23 million US dollars, it was quite good.

Meet the Parents, made at a cost of 55 million US dollars, brought in 160 million US dollars in North America and 330 million US dollars worldwide. It was quite an unexpected windfall for Universal!

Los Angeles, Beverly Hills Sofitel Hotel.

Aaron, attending a cocktail party, ran into Steven Spielberg. After chatting for a while about the progress of Band of Brothers, the other man asked about The Silence of the Lambs 2: Hannibal!

"Oh, Steven, are you interested?"

Aaron smiled. David Fincher had already begun filming The Silence of the Lambs 2: Hannibal at the start of the month;

At the same time, The Mummy Returns: The Scorpion King had also started production.

Steven Spielberg shook his head. "I like it very much, but I don't have the time. I have too many projects on my hands right now;

"I just finished the sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and I'm currently shooting another sci-fi movie, Minority Report;

"Besides that, I have another project that is nearly ready for production, adapted from Frank Abagnale Jr.'s autobiography of the same name!"

Aaron's mouth twitched. Steven Spielberg truly was busy. These were all films he was personally directing, not to mention all the other projects he would be producing;

It was not just DreamWorks. Steven Spielberg had always taken on outside work. Even with DreamWorks Pictures to manage, he still