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* [[Box Office Bomb]]: ''Subverted''. It is often cited as one of the most notorious box office failures in movie history, but that's not doing the research properly: it did flop in the ''US'', but then it went to the foreign market and performed very well there, easily making back its budget in gross revenue.
* [[Executive Meddling]]:
** Unusually it was actually Costner editing with
** Relatedly, script doctor [[Joss Whedon]] says his job was basically taking notes from Costner.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** [[Jack Black]] as the smoker airplane pilot.
** Enola went on to play Deb in ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
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** Trailer voiceover legend Hal Douglas narrates the opening.
* [[Troubled Production]]: The ballooning of the budget ($100 million to $175 million) is the lesser part of it. The [[Executive Meddling]] made it even worse. The hurricane trashing the main set didn't help either.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The film originated as a writer's pitch to notoriously low-budget producer [[Roger Corman]]. Corman turned it down [[Hilarious in Hindsight|saying that it would cost them $5 million]].
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