Title: Heaven's Gate (film)
Content: he writes: "However unwelcome "Heaven's Gate" may have been in 1980, there hasn't been a more urgently topical film in 2015." The film holds a 57% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews with an average rating of 6.2/10. The film's $44 million cost ($ million in dollars) and poor performance at the box office ($3.5 million gross in the United States) generated more negative publicity than actual financial damage, causing Transamerica Corporation, United Artists' corporate owner, to become anxious over its own public image and to abandon film production altogether. Transamerica then sold United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which

Title: Heaven's Gate (film)
Content: all-time, losing the studio an estimated $37 million ($114 million in 2012 dollars). It was also initially viewed as one of the worst films ever made. There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost and time overruns, negative press (including allegations of animal abuse on-set) and rumors about Cimino's allegedly authoritarian directorial style; the film resultantly opened to scathing reviews, earning only $3.5 million domestically (from an estimated $44 million budget), eventually causing its parent studio, United Artists, to collapse, and effectively destroying the reputation of Cimino, previously a rising Hollywood "auteur" from the success of his

Title: United Artists
Content: Thomopoulous at UA, and Alan Ladd, Jr. at MGM. Despite a resurgence at the box office in 1987 with "Spaceballs", "The Living Daylights", and "Moonstruck", MUCC lost $88 million. In April 1988, Kerkorian's 82 percent of MUCC was up for sale. MGM and UA were split by July. Eventually, 25 percent of MGM was offered to Burt Sugarman, and producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, but the plan fell-through. Rich, Ladd, Thomopoulous and other executives grew tired of Kerkorian's antics and began to leave. By summer 1988, the mass exodus of executives started to affect productions, with many film cancellations.

Title: Heaven's Gate (film)
Content: effectively ended the studio's existence. MGM would later revive UA as a subsidiary division. While the money loss due to "Heaven's Gate" was considerable, United Artists was still a thriving studio with a steady income provided by the "James Bond", "The Pink Panther" and "Rocky" franchises. On the other hand, UA was already struggling after the executive walkout in 1978 and several other major box office flops in 1980, including "Cruising", "Foxes" and "Roadie". The fracas had a wider effect on the American film industry. During the 1970s, relatively young directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, William

Title: Studio system
Content: "Return of the Jedi", Spielberg's back-to-back successes with "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", and the development of home-video and cable television. Meanwhile, the uncontrolled budget of "Heaven's Gate" (1980), and its limited box-office revenue, led to the sale of United Artists. From 1990 to 1995, New Hollywood turned into more of a conglomerate Hollywood and quickly dominating the global entertainment industry. As of 2007, five of the Golden Age majors continue to exist as major Hollywood studio entities, each as part of a larger media conglomerate: Columbia (owned by Sony), 20th Century Fox (owned by Disney),

Question: To the nearest million, how mjch did Heavan's Gate lose for United Artists?
Answer: 30