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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Fractale]]'' was conceived as a way for its director, Yamakan, to make [[Kyoto Animation]] regret firing him, with all the resources put into it you'd expect with a goal like that. He was so sure of its success that he said he'd step down if it did poorly. The end result was said to be good, if not great, by most people who watched it to the end. All five or so of them. Yamakan probably would have had to step down even if he hadn't explicitly staked his career on it doing well.
* Ironically, ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', the biggest cash cow of [[
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* The man behind the ''[[Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Film)|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' film was Robert Stigwood, owner of RSO Records, producer of smash hits ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' and ''[[Grease]]'', and long-time manager of [[The Bee Gees]]. The absolute failure of this film was the beginning of the end of the Bee Gees' relationship with Stigwood (who felt they were dragged into his ego project), and was the first step in the shocking plummet of Stigwood's movie career - his movies post-''Pepper'' included ''Times Square'', ''Staying Alive'', and ''Grease 2''. Then he gave up.
* Jared Hess was expected to be one of the next great comedic directors after having box office hits in ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'' and ''[[Nacho Libre]]''. Then he released ''Gentlemen Broncos'', a movie that was such a disaster with critics (it was one of the ten worst reviewed films of 2009) and audiences (the film grossed just $110,000, a four-hundredth of ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'''s gross) that it irreparably destroyed Hess's career. He has not made a film since. He would later helm a loose [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'', but it got cancelled after only one season.
* Executives at Orion Pictures blamed their destruction on ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'', the wacky comedy starring [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] which they considered the fork in the road for the studio. They had ridiculously high hopes for it ... hopes so ridiculously high that they figured why not pit it against ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]]''? The loss of money (as well as the loss of critical favor which they had been building throughout the 80s) seemed to mentally break the studio's already-disheveled management: aside from ''[[Dances With Wolves]]'' and ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', the entirety of Orion's post-''UHF'' releases were one poorly-thought-out disaster after another. (They also sold the [[Cash Cow Franchise]] that could have saved them, the big-screen adaptation of ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]'', to Paramount prior to release.)
** The problem was really one of scheduling: ''UHF'' had tested amazingly well and it has an enormous following. If it had come out any time other than summer 1989, which not only saw Indy, but also [[Licence to Kill (Film)|a Bond movie]], [[Star Trek V the Final Frontier (Film)|a Star Trek movie]], the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' sequel, ''[[Lethal Weapon]] 2'' and, oh, yeah, the first [[Tim Burton]] ''[[Batman (Film)|Batman]]'', it might have done a lot better.
* The failure of ''[[Ishtar]]'' killed Elaine May's directing career, though she's still done well as a writer for such films as ''[[The Birdcage]]'' and ''[[Primary Colors]]''.
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* After the failure of the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]] Adult Party Cartoon'', it is unlikely [[John Kricfalusi]] will be able to sell another show... not that it's stopped him from trying.
** Several of his smaller animation projects have enjoyed fairly high-profile success, such as a [[Couch Gag]] for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in which the family is shown in John K.'s bizarre style.
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