DIRECTOR JERRY ZUCKER SAID HE’D CAST PATRICK SWAYZE “OVER MY DEAD BODY.” The film wasn’t a huge hit, and a few years later she traded Hollywood for Idaho.Ĥ. In 1995, she was paid an unprecedented $12.5 million to take her clothes off in Striptease. If you add up all of Demi’s film grosses, it comes out to more than $1 billion. After the unexpected $200 million domestic gross of Ghost, she hit box office gold with a trifecta of other huge hits: 1992’s A Few Good Men ($141,340,178), 1993’s Indecent Proposal ($106,614,059), and 1994’s Disclosure ($83,015,089). Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night., but she wasn’t considered a bankable star. GHOST TURNED DEMI MOORE INTO THE HIGHEST-PAID ACTRESS AT THE TIME.īy the time Ghost was released, Moore was already famous for her roles in St. Ghost hit another milestone when it spent 19 consecutive weekends in the top five weekend box office, ranking number five on the all-time weekend list.ģ. But Home Alone didn’t surpass Ghost’s hull until February of 1991. Produced for a modest $22 million, it ended the year with a worldwide gross of $505,702,588-that’s a lot of “dittos.” According to Box Office Mojo, Home Alone ranks as the highest-grossing domestic film of 1990, with Ghost a close second.
GHOST PATRICK SWAYZE CASTING MOVIE
When a low-budget movie makes an unanticipated large sum of money, it’s considered a “sleeper” hit, which is exactly what happened to Ghost.
GHOST OUT-GROSSED EVERY MOVIE RELEASED IN 1990. In her 1991 Oscar speech, she thanked Swayze, calling him “a stand-up guy.”Ģ. “And I won an Oscar because of Patrick Swayze,” Goldberg said. The producers resisted casting her, but Swayze told them he wasn’t doing the film unless Whoopi was in it, too, and that she was right for the part-even though at that point she and Swayze had never met.
On The View, Goldberg revealed that she only got the role of Oda Mae Brown because Swayze fought for her. WHOOPI GOLDBERG CREDITS HER OSCAR WIN TO PATRICK SWAYZE. Here are some ghostly facts about a film that explores how even in death, love thrives. Somehow this supernatural-romantic-thriller, in which the lead character is an apparition, levitated out of the shadows to not only become the world’s highest-grossing film of 1990, but to win two Oscars. When Ghost was released over 25 years ago, it was hardly on anyone’s radar, with the exception of critics, who panned it.