When it comes to the movie business, I'm often stunned by how much movies make. Even a low performing movie can make five or ten million dollars. That seems like an insane amount of money, even when tickets can cost around twenty dollars in some major city movie theaters (yikes, I know).
Here's the rub. Five or ten million dollars may sound big, but it gets really small when you consider a five million dollar movie is considered low budget. The big Hollywood movies cost anywhere from fifty million dollars to two hundred and fifty million if you're talking about something huge like a Star Wars movie.
Unfortunately, making a movie is a giant risk. Just because you spent a lot of money doesn't mean that you're going to see all that money back. In fact, it's only getting harder and harder to make money in the theaters. What you'll see from this list is that the movie business has always had flops. The amount of money #1 lost in the box office will absolutely stun you!
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.