This film with Dany Boon was released more than ten years ago, and it has just been given a second wind thanks to Netflix. For this comedy, the actor received a fee of 3.5 million euros!
Five years after the success of Welcome to the Ch'tisDany Boon faced a small failure in theaters with Eyjafjallajökullwhose pronunciation is not very simple. When it was released in theaters in 2013, the film which brought together the northern actor and Valérie Bonneton attracted more than 1.7 million admissions. Which is not bad, but its profitability of 50% compared to its budget of 23.1 million euros makes it Eyjafjallajökull a second disappointment for Dany Boon. The previous year, he had already made a flop with the film A perfect plan which had 1.2 million admissions for a budget of 26 million euros, which is the equivalent of a profitability of 29%.
Dany Boon: his salary for Eyjafjallajökull corresponds to 15% of the film's budget
For the filming of EyjafjallajökullDany Boon received a record fee of 3.5 million euros. Which then corresponds to 15% of the film's total budget. A salary which far exceeded that received for A perfect planfor which he received the tidy sum of 3 million euros. More than ten years after its cinema release, Eyjafjallajökull just got a second wind thanks to Netflix. To date, it is in second place in the top 10, just behind the action film Carry-On.
What Dany Boon loved about the film Eyjafjallajökull
Despite the very low commercial success of EyjafjallajökullDany Boon loved this film. “One thing that really appealed to me in the script is that every time we say to ourselves that this is it, that they finally talk to each other calmly, intelligently, as it is best to do, it It's often in fact a new manipulation of one to better push the other down. Each time, we want to believe that they are reaching out to each other, but they make everything worse. is happiness! have no pity, no limits”he admitted before indicating: “In fact, what I like about this film is that it talks about the couple and the man/woman relationship as it is today. We can go very far, which we don't wouldn't do in a friendship or work relationship. They even dream of killing themselves!
Article written with the collaboration of 6médias.
