1408, the King movie before The Mist, pulled in $130 million. Riding the Bullet, the movie before 1408, $134 million. The Green Mile was 10 years ago and pulled $280 million. Yeah he’s got a lot of movies that pulled in $30 million-ish, but he’s got a few major successes also. As for Austen, again, if you say so. I suffered through 100 pages of P&P and wanted to gouge my eyes out, it was nattering hens blathering inanely, I will never touch another Austen book again, much less actually read one. Maybe she was making fun of them, I don’t know, I don’t care, it was the worst book experience of my life.
I forgot about ‘The Green Mile’.
Mark Twain defined a good library as a ‘building with no Jane Austen novels in it’. :)