I must admit that I don't comprehend Hollywood accounting. $21 million domestic gross on a film that was produced on a 12.5 million budget looks like a profit to me.

It is almost a miracle that the film ever got completed. Everett McGill got frostbite in the river crossing scene. Rae Dawn Chong threatened to quit prior to the rape scene and at least one of the crew got anthrax while filming in Africa. The elephants stampeded and tore up the camp.
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"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil"

-- Sheikh Zaki Yamani