5/10/2023 0 Comments Dragons of God by Vincent Coppola![]() ![]() The short version: so unwieldy and expensive was the production and so exhausting were the battles over final cut that by the time it flopped in theaters (earning only a little over $3 million off a $44 million budget) that not only did it greatly contribute to the collapse of its studio, United Artists, Heaven’s Gate is largely blamed for ushering out the auteur-driven ethos of its era, known as New Hollywood, which in turn led to the increasingly corporate driven culture of movies that has all but taken over the entire industry today. The director, who shot to the top of the Hollywood A-list after his Vietnam drama The Deer Hunter proved a massive critical and sizeable commercial hit in 1977-garnering nine Oscar nominations and winning six (including Best Picture and Best Director)-suffered an Icarus-like fall from grace following the disastrous production and release of his epic western Heaven’s Gate (1980). ![]() The late Michael Cimino is best remembered today as a cautionary tale. ![]()
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