...Director James Cameron was sensitive when asked by the press about the budget for 1994’s “True Lies” — the first to top $100 million, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. “This is how much the film costs: $7.50 plus parking — $8 in New York," he once quipped in response. Now, of course, $100 million movie budgets are the norm, and $8 movie tickets seem preposterously inexpensive.
Explanation: His first opera, Rinaldo premiered at the Queen's Threatre in 1711, the same theater in which Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera first saw the light of day in 1986.
