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Acting is one of the highest-paying jobs in the film industry and when one is a star, they can command salaries in the millions. Many actors have increased their net worth to hundreds of millions due to their increased salaries. However, some have also fumbled and reduced their worth by spending lavishly.

From A-listers to reality TV stars, many have been vocal about their poor financial decisions, to the point where some have even declared bankruptcy. While some actors attributed it to spending more than their income, some just made poor spending decisions that ended up biting them back. Here are 10 Hollywood actors who went broke for dumb reasons.

1. Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage is one of the most divisive Hollywood actors. While he absolutely kills it in films like the Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, and more, he has made some questionable acting choices in The Wicker Man. Similarly, the...

Alyson Hannigan’s cinematic career has been marked by several beloved and iconic roles. The actress started her career with several supporting roles in movies like Impure Thoughts and My Stepmother Is an Alien in the 1980s. However, her breakout role came in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which she played the role of Willow Rosenberg.

Alyson Hannigan in a still from How I Met Your Mother || CBS

But this was just the starting point for Hannigan, who then went on to star as a regular in How I Met Your Mother as Lily Aldrin from 2005-2014. But amid all these amazing gigs, in a past interview, she also detailed a particular role that allegedly cost her an acting job.

A Commercial That Traumatized Alyson Hannigan

Starting a career in the entertainment business is tough for even adults, let alone child actors. While some excel in it and go on to become great actors,...

Actress Juliette Lewis (“Yellowjackets”) poses for the Warby Parker Summer 2024 eyewear collection, photographed by Paola Kudacki:

Lewis made her film debut in the feature “My Stepmother Is an Alien” (1988). This was followed by bigger parts in “National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation” (1989) and Martin Scorsese's “Cape Fear” (1991), earning her an ‘Oscar’ nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actress’.

Subsequent credits include “Husbands and Wives” (1992), “Kalifornia” (1993), “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” (1993), “Natural Born Killers” (1994), “Strange Days” (1995), and “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996).

She received an ‘Emmy Award’ nomination for the television film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), and went on to co-star in the mainstream features “Picture Claire” (2001), “Enough” (2002), “Cold Creek Manor” (2003). “Old School” (2003) and “Starsky & Hutch” (2004).

She started a musical career in 2003, forming the rock band “Juliette and the Licks” and continues to release Since 2009, material as a solo artist.

Her film credits also include “Conviction” (2010), “The Switch” (2010), “August: Osage County” (2013), and “Ma” (2019).

Lewis has worked...

The 1990 television adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel "It" may be best known for Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise, who made an entire generation seriously terrified of clowns, but it would be nothing without the heart and soul of the Loser's Club. In the 1950s, a group of misfit kids growing up in Derry, Maine are brought together, partially because they don't belong anywhere else, but also because they happen to be targeted by the malevolent force that haunts their town, stealing and murdering its local children. Together, they have to face off against Pennywise to stop the killing once and for all. That's what they think, anyway. But despite defeating Pennywise as children, they're forced to return to Derry as adults and once again confront the terrors of their youth.

As a result of this, "It" has an interesting casting dilemma of finding not only seven...

As 2023 comes to a close, we here at JoBlo.com would like to take a moment to pay tribute to some of the people who sadly passed away this year. Our deepest respect goes out to everyone in the industry we have lost, and our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who died in 2023. These talented individuals will always be remembered for their impact on the world of film and television.

In Memory Of…

Earl Boen

Earl Boen died at the age of 81 on January 5th. The actor was best known as Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator, a role he reprised in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, making him the only other actor aside from Arnold Schwarzenegger to appear in the first three movies.

Boen always wanted to inject a little more humour into his performance, but director James Cameron kept telling him no…...

‘Dancing with the Stars’ season 32 stars Val Chmerkovsky and Xochitl Gomez (ABC/Andrew Eccles)

Season 32 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars will feature an Oscar-winner, a Grammy winner, a Marvel star, and an NFL All-Star running back. The upcoming season has also snagged a supermodel, a Brady Buncher, and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer and How I Met Your Mother star.

Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough will be judging the celebs and their dancing partners.Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough co-host season 32, which kicks off on September 26, 2023. New two-hour episodes will air on Tuesdays at 8pm Et/Pt on ABC and Disney+.

Dancing with the Stars Season 32 Celebrities and Their Professional Partners:

· Supermodel Tyson Beckford with partner Jenna Johnson

· Marvel star Xochitl Gomez with partner Val Chmerkovskiy

· TV and film star Alyson Hannigan with partner Sasha Farber

· Social media and reality TV star Harry Jowsey with...

Jonathan Reynolds, a playwright and screenwriter whose string of film credits in the 1980s included the comedies Micki & Maude, Switching Channels, My Stepmother Is an Alien and the notorious flop Leonard Part 6, died Oct. 27 of organ failure at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He was 79.

His death was announced by family to The New York Times.

A prolific Off Broadway playwright, Reynolds stage works included the acclaimed 1982 Hollywood satire Geniuses, produced by Playwrights Horizons and based on the journals Reynolds wrote during his three months on location in the Philippines to observe the infamously difficult filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.

An intended book about the making of the film never made it to print, but his satirical play was a hit with both audiences and critics. And Reynolds would have an even more lasting connection to Apocalypse Now: He contributed, uncredited, a line of...

5 random things that happened on this day, December 9th, in showbiz history

1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres on CBS, the first of many TV specials (and later feature films) based on Charles M Schultz classic comic strip. It went on to receive a Grammy nomination and win the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming and the Peabody, too. 

1988 Mississippi Burning (the first of Frances McDormand's three soon-to-be-four appearances in a Best Picture nominee) and two comedies My Stepmother is an Alien and Twins open in movie theaters...

Known for his work in a wide array of film genres, Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Richard H. Kline died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91.

Kline was known for his work for the 1967 movie musical Camelot starring Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Harris. He received his first Academy Award nomination for the Joshua Logan-directed film and earned his second nomination for the 1976 remake of King Kong starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange.

Born on Nov. 15, 1926, Kline was born into a family of cinematographers which included his father, Benjamin H. Kline, and two uncles, Sol Halperin and Philip Rosen. He had an affinity for surfing, but followed the cinematographer legacy of his family and got his start at Columbia Pictures as a slate boy in 1943 when working on the musical Cover Girl. He went on to serve in the Navy but returned to become a first assistant cameraman.

Throughout his 40 year career, Kline...

The ’80s genre film scene had been invaded by aliens. From sci-fi horror fare like the Alien franchise and The Thing to lighter family-friendly takes like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Batteries Not Included, aliens seemed to be hovering over movie theaters throughout the decade, and 1988 was no different. One of the more under-appreciated gems from the Class of ’88 was Richard Benjamin’s My Stepmother Is An Alien, starring Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, and Alyson Hannigan in her first major film role—a role that would lead to Hannigan meeting Seth Green for the very first time (a swoon-worthy trivia tidbit for Buffy geeks like myself).

But, back to aliens.

Basinger plays Celeste, a gorgeous extraterrestrial sent on a mission to Earth to find out the source of a radio wave that sent ripples throughout her home planet and disrupted its gravity. The source is, of course, Aykroyd’s Steven Mills,...

Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Albert Bettcher (1920-2017) - Cameraperson. His credits as a camera operator or assistant cameraperson include Blade Runner, The Graduate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Howard the Duck, Body Heat, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Some Kind of Wonderful and the 1976 King Kong. He actually died on December 21. (THR) Alan Bleviss (1941-2017) - Voice Actor. He provided voiceovers for numerous trailers, including...

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Few people left a mark on every facet of pop culture quite like Prince, the legendary artist who passed away today at age 57 of currently unknown causes. Most may think of him first and foremost as a musician, but some of our favorite movies simply would not be the same were it not for Prince. His iconic songs have infiltrated countless soundtracks since the early 1980s, from silly family movies like My Stepmother Is an Alien to romantic comedies like Pretty Woman and even modern action movies like The Equalizer. Tim Burton's Batman movie would not be quite as weird and quite as memorable were it not for Prince, whose music for Jack Nicholson's Joker often became the perfect, colorful bow that tied that character together on the big screen. And then of course...

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Few people left a mark on every facet of pop culture quite like Prince, the legendary artist who passed away today at age 57 of currently unknown causes. Most may think of him first and foremost as a musician, but some of our favorite movies simply would not be the same were it not for Prince. His iconic songs have infiltrated countless soundtracks since the early 1980s, from silly family movies like My Stepmother Is an Alien to romantic comedies like Pretty Woman and even modern action...

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Born on the 24th March 1974 (making her forty years old, can you believe that?!), in Washington D.C., Alyson Hannigan is the daughter (and only child) of Emilie Haas, a Jewish real estate agent, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver with Irish ancestry. Her parents divorced when she was just two years old and she was brought up by her mother in Atlanta, Georgia as a result.

Hannigan began performing very early – even as a baby she appeared in photoshoots and an instructional video for parenting – and started appearing in commercials when she was just four years old.

After a handful of minor television jobs, she made her first major film appearance in 1988’s My Stepmother Is An Alien, in which she starred alongside the likes of Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd and Seth Green – the latter whom played her boyfriend, just like he would go on to do...

We've got a delightful short animated trailer for you to check out today that was made to promote some of our favorite classic 1980s sci-fi films. It was created by Francesco Baiocchi for the European sci-fi cable channel Axn. It was done in the style of a '80s side-scrolling video game, and some of the films that are featured in the promo include Ghostbusters II, The NeverEnding Story, Short Circuit, and even My Stepmother Is an Alien. The result is pretty radical. 

Remember the '80s? Remember those amazing Arcade video games? As we had to create a weekly stunt to promote different movies from the 80s' we decided to celebrate that fabulous decade using one of its most recognizable look and design.

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Even though it makes up a major plot point (actually pretty much the plot) of Lucy, the myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain has been pretty thoroughly debunked.

But for whatever reason, mostly because Hollywood doesn’t really need to pay attention to science, this pseudo-science, with varying numbers tacked on, still appears throughout film and television. The possible outcomes of using the other 90 percent, however, differ between cases. There are the standard examples, like Lucy and Limitless, which promise intelligence-related superpowers. Others, like Seinfeld and Honey I Shrunk the Kids (the TV version, natch), just promise intelligence.

Scarlett Johansson gives a breathtaking performance as an alien femme fatale in Jonathan Glazer's mesmerising new movie Under the Skin.

Johansson's unnamed character inhabits the body of a young woman in order to lure male hitchhikers to their deaths, as she travels around Glasgow in her white transit van.

The silver screen has a long tradition of both spine-tingling and silly sci-fi seductresses, so prepare to be charmed by a few of our favourites below:

The Astounding She-Monster (1957)

"If you're not too afraid, make a date with a woman you'll never forget... a woman impervious to bullets....The Astounding She Monster!!!" warns the trailer for this 1957 sci-fi horror.

Shirley Kilpatrick played a beautiful yet highly-radioactive alien who lands on earth after accidentally crashing her spaceship. Unbeknownst to her, she's capable of killing with the touch of her delicate, bare hands, and begins stalking and unwittingly harming humans around her.

Zachary Quinto on the cover of the digital magazine Snap.

Birthday shoutouts go to Smokey Robinson, who is 73, Seal is 50, and Beth Ditto is 32. We should celebrate the departure of a revolting villain.In ratings news, The Following was up 17% over last week's tumble. The Cancellation Bear believes that Smash is likely to be canceled. Kelly Clarkson has some harsh words for Clive Davis about his new autobiography (In which he also comes out as bisexual): "So I just heard Clive Davis is releasing a memoir and spreading false information about me and my music. I refuse to be bullied and I just have to clear up his memory lapses and misinformation for myself and for my fans. It feels like a violation. Growing up is awesome because you learn you don't have to cower to anyone - even Clive Davis."If you can make it to the end of this,...

Christmas comes early for fans of Seth Green this year: On Sunday, Robot Chicken’s Atm Christmas Special premieres (Adult Swim, midnight Et), and on Monday, he reunites with his Buffy the Vampire Slayer costar Alyson Hannigan on How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 p.m. Et).

Entertainment Weekly: This is your first time acting opposite Alyson on-screen since Buffy.

Seth Green: Since then, yes. But Aly and I have worked together since we were teenagers. I think she was 11 or 12, and I was like 13 when we met. We did a movie called My Stepmother is an Alien , and...

Though she's known these days as the sweet and innocent Lily on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Alyson Hannigan's biggest contribution to pop culture is indisputably her role as the sweet and not-so-innocent Michelle Flaherty in the "American Pie" franchise.

Her character's big reveal at the climax of the classic 1999 teen comedy, in which the audience's (and protagonist Jim's) perception of her goes from tame to over-the-top with one unforgettable "band camp" story, is a scene that has achieved near mythic status among millennial moviegoers, and we've all got a special place in our hearts for her because of it. However, Hannigan's very first starring role came more than a decade before she rocked Jason Biggs' world, in the sci-fi comedy "My Stepmother Is an Alien."

At the time it was a big career boost for the then 14 year-old actress, who had only appeared briefly...

With "Midnight in Paris," Woody Allen's comic look at nostalgia and its limitations, having earned four Oscar nominations last week (including nods for Best Picture, Allen's direction and his original screenplay), it's a good time to take a look back at Allen's 1987 comedy "Radio Days." Another comic take on nostalgia, "Radio Days" is now officially a golden oldie itself, having been released exactly 25 years ago, on January 30, 1987. A fond look, filtered through memory, of a 1940s New York childhood, the radio broadcasts that captivated audiences back then, and the behind-the-scenes gossip about the performers who voiced them, "Radio Days" may be best known today for launching the career of Seth Green -- then a 12-year-old who played the Allen-like narrator as a boy. But there's also a wealth of little-known true stories behind the film, some of them from Allen's own life, some from classic radio lore, and some...

It feels like Dan Aykroyd hasn’t been around for a while, but that’s only because I refused to see Yogi Bear, barely noticed him as the Vice President in War, Inc. and refused (again) to see I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. So he hasn’t been retired or anything, but it’s sure felt like it. Nevertheless, he’ll be coming out of that non-retirement for Dog Fight, the political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as two South Carolinians who have their sights on the presidency. According to Movie Hole, the Oscar nominated actor is on board, but the role isn’t specified. Hopefully this won’t further delay that certain, ghost-bustin’ sequel Aykroyd has been steadily working on. I’m speaking, of course, about My Stepmother is an Alien 2. The capable Jay Roach is directing a script from Chris Henchy (The Other Guys, and...

The successful Twilight franchise begins its victory lap with the upcoming release of the first of two Breaking Dawn movies, and whether you love or hate these sparkly-boy-meets-lip-biting-girl romances, the idea of a human falling in love with a non-human creature has a rich and varied history at the movies. (Although with rare exceptions like My Stepmother is an Alien, such films are almost always about female homo sapiens falling for men of a completely different species, which is no doubt fodder for someone's doctoral thesis.) Here's a list of some classic movies about pretty ladies and the strange creatures who love them; tell us your favorite girl-and-ghoul flicks in the comments section.

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Contamination, St. Louis. second annual convention billed as our city.s first and only .Horror, Sci-Fi, and Pop Culture Convention. was last weekend and We Are Movie Geeks was there to cover all the action (and to drink). The con took place at the Westport Sheraton Chalet and Hotel in West St. Louis County. Contamination is put on by Dyer Straits Productions who, according to their website .is constantly thinking outside the box trying to bring you the best and the most unusual in Horror, Sci-Fi, Music and Pop Culture.. The guests last weekend included Tony Todd (who played Candyman!), Kane Hodder (played Jason in three Friday the 13th Films), Brad Loree (played Michael Meyers in one of the Halloween films), and the cast of the never-aired 1994 TV movie The Fantastic Four. Headline guests Eric Roberts and Norman Reedus (of Boondock Saints and The Walking Dead fame) were no-shows but...

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Digging into Seth Green's past work is like chowing down on a cornucopia of awesomeness. Perhaps you remember him mocking Patrick Dempsey for his card nights of chips, dips and dorks in 'Can't Buy Me Love,' or how he loved the Willow well before Buffy in 'My Stepmother Is an Alien,' or maybe you fell for his ultra-sweet ultra-mullet as a fan of Happy Harry Hard On in 'Pump Up the Volume.'

Though Green started working in 1984 with a slew of bit parts, his big break didn't come until May of 1997 when he played Scott Evil in 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery' ... or so we thought. If you're familiar with the Rally's fast food chain, you know better.

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Digging into Seth Green's past work is like chowing down on a cornucopia of awesomeness. Perhaps you remember him mocking Patrick Dempsey for his card nights of chips, dips and dorks in 'Can't Buy Me Love,' or how he loved the Willow well before Buffy in 'My Stepmother Is an Alien,' or maybe you fell for his ultra-sweet ultra-mullet as a fan of Happy Harry Hard On in 'Pump Up the Volume.'

Though Green started working in 1984 with a slew of bit parts, his big break didn't come until May of 1997 when he played Scott Evil in 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery' ... or so we thought. If you're familiar with the Rally's fast food chain, you know better.

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He was one of George Lucas’s original team of F/X wizards who in 1978 took home an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (which he shared with John Dykstra) for his work on R2-D2 and all those wonderful creatures from the 1977 Star Wars. (In addition to his work as chief modelmaker for the groundbreaking film, he also appeared as a Death Star Gunner.) Grant McCune died of complications from cancer on Monday. He was 67. Described as a "quiet but crucial" innovator who specialized in models and miniatures, Grant McCune was one of Hollywood's best known special and visual effects artists pumping out designs for over 100 films, spanning decades of sci-fi and action classics, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Ghostbusters II to Speed to Batman Forever to Spider-Man 2. McCune worked as miniature supervisor for Apogee Inc. on Star Trek: The Motion Picture and received an Academy...

Craig here with Take Three. Today: Kim Basinger

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I think it’s time again to give Kim Basinger (remember, it's Bay-singer, not Bah-sinjahr, folks) some major credit. The lady's due. She’s gone from supporting eighties female through a love-hate (but Oscar-nabbing) nineties to her current career bloom as a character actress of some depth. Ms Basinger has always quietly impressed me. Here are three reasons why.

Take One: She loooovves purple.

Basinger’s career was birthed alongside the eighties. Feisty ladies in adventurous circumstances were her trade back then. Although through either slip-ups or fate she was often eclipsed by her male co-stars. In Never Say Never Again, The Man Who Loved Women, The Natural, Fool for Love, 9½ Weeks, No Mercy, Blind Date and Nadine she played second-fiddle female to, respectively, Connery, Reynolds, Redford, Shepard, Rourke, Gere, Willis and Bridges. These regulars of male-patterned eighties flicks...

Scarlett Johansson ("The Island", "Iron Man 2") will star as an alien in the sci-fi feature "Under The Skin" for FilmNation according to Heat Vision Blog. Based on a novel by Michael Faber, Johansson plays an alien disguised as an aesthetically perfect woman who scours remote highways using her voracious sexuality to snare human prey. She soon begins to develop feelings of humanity which soon puts her in the firing line with her own people. Think "Species" meets "My Stepmother Is An Alien". Jonathan Glazer ("Sexy Beast") directs from a script he co-wrote with 'Walter Campbell. Nick Wechsler and James Wilson will produce, and shooting kicks off in the Spring....

Scarlett Johansson will star as an alien in the sci-fi feature "Under the Skin" for FilmNation according to Heat Vision Blog.

Based on a novel by Michael Faber, Johansson plays an alien disguised as an aesthetically perfect woman who scours remote highways using her voracious sexuality to snare human prey.

She soon begins to develop feelings of humanity which soon puts her in the firing line with her own people. Think "Species" meets "My Stepmother is an Alien".

Jonathan Glazer ("Sexy Beast") directs from a script he co-wrote with Walter Campbell. Nick Wechsler and James Wilson will produce, and shooting kicks off in the Spring.