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9. Ha! The very first item in IMdb trivia for "B.E."

Forest Whitaker expressed his regret for participating in this movie.

I went searching for more on that but found very few details. One article about Whitaker said he only did "B.E." for the money. At the time he was trying to finance some of his own projects.

Travolta took a steep pay cut upfront (and put his own money into it). He was planning to make a fortune when "B.E." achieved great financial and critical success. And even more off the sequel...



The IMdb "Trivia" section is full of interesting stuff about "B.E." Sounds like the production company was using Standard Hollywood Creative Accounting. But got caught at it and sued out of existence:

The investor, Intertainment, sued producer Franchise Pictures for fraud. Franchise claimed the budget was $75 million instead of the actual budget of $44 million. Franchise Pictures were sentenced to pay Intertainment $121.7 million in damages and went bankrupt. Intertainment only financed the film because it came as a package deal with The Art of War (2000) and The Whole Nine Yards (2000).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/trivia