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Dustin Hoffman Attacks Hollywood's Box Office Mentality


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THE double Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman has made an angry attack on the “euthanasia” of the film industry, which he complains tries to “bury” any film that is not an instant cash cow.

“If the film doesn’t make money over that first weekend of its release, they will bury it,” said Hoffman, speaking yesterday as he visited Britain for the premiere of his latest film, Stranger Than Fiction, at The Times London Film Festival.

The 69-year-old actor, whose films include The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Rain Man, said: “Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn’t succeed immediately.”

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good for Dustin. not that it'll change anything.

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