Dune , a mega-flop. In the early 1970s, De Laurentiis moved to the United States and started over. He made great thrillers, including Serpico and Three Days of the Condor , and kitschy hits like King Kong and art-house fare like Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg. By 1988, the company was bankrupt, sunk by a series of epic flops that included Dune, King Kong Lives and Orca. De Laurentiis admits he was ill-prepared to oversee a corporate enterprise.
Life goes on.
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