Maybe it's like THE PRODUCERS, and is intended to lose money! There could be some tax-loss thing going on, perhaps. There's also the possibility that it's some sort of vanity project. The chap doing it is the writer/director of THE LION KING, which perhaps means that he got to do it on the back of success elsewhere. One things for sure, it's unlikely to be any serious threat to FROZEN in the moneymaking stakes.
It seems mostly a labor of love for Salma -- who also produced Frida (the flick about the Mexican artist Fridaa Kahlo, in which she also quite brilliantly starred). She's a lot brighter than the run of gorgeous movie stars.
But one also needs a less creative soul at high pay grade to sign on to distribution and other mundane stuff -- usually the stumbling block for vanity projects, however brilliantly conceived. The guy who sees to the profit in The Prophet -- and who'd balk at the evident (to me, at least) risks of getting on the wrong* side of the mullahs and pooh-bahs of that fragile region.
_________ * One shouldn't forget that there was an insensitive and badly received movie behind the unrest that spun into the horror of Benghazi...
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But one also needs a less creative soul at high pay grade to sign on to distribution and other mundane stuff -- usually the stumbling block for vanity projects, however brilliantly conceived. The guy who sees to the profit in The Prophet -- and who'd balk at the evident (to me, at least) risks of getting on the wrong* side of the mullahs and pooh-bahs of that fragile region.
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* One shouldn't forget that there was an insensitive and badly received movie behind the unrest that spun into the horror of Benghazi...
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