Kurt Russell dirigía “Escape from Los Angeles” de John Carpenter. Lo cual lamentablemente no tuvo éxito. Así que fue una buena noticia que “Breakdown” encabezara la taquilla y recibiera bastantes elogios en su día. La película terminó con más de uno. 50 millones de dolares A nivel local, con un presupuesto de 36 millones de dólares. Sin embargo, esto por sí solo no fue suficiente para lograr el éxito en una era de fuertes ventas de video doméstico y televisión por cable. Paramount eventualmente iba a ganar dinero con la película. La óptica era buena.
Mientras tanto, “Austin Powers” recaudó aproximadamente 54 millones de dólares a nivel nacional y 68 millones de dólares en todo el mundo con un presupuesto de 18 millones de dólares. Más importante aún, generó dos series más exitosas. “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” de 1999 recaudó la asombrosa cifra de 312 millones de dólares, mientras que “Goldmember” de 2002 recaudó 296 millones de dólares. Incluso con presupuestos mucho mayores, estas películas fueron un gran éxito para New Line. Para esto Roach y Myers siguieron coqueteando con la idea de producir “Austin Powers 4” a lo largo de los años.
A la larga, Austin Powers rió el último. Sin embargo, ambas películas tuvieron relativamente éxito. Para Musto, Breakdown fue la plataforma de lanzamiento de su carrera, ya que consiguió un acuerdo con un importante estudio de Hollywood pocos días después del estreno de la película:
“La crisis lanzó mi carrera. Creo que fue un domingo por la mañana cuando el director del estudio que pasó el guión y todos los demás estudios llamaron a mi agente y me dijeron: '¿A qué hora temprano puedes recibir tu guión mañana por la mañana?' ¿En mi oficina? A las 7:30 a. m. del lunes por la mañana, conocí a este tipo que me hizo un trato en ese estudio, y fue una gran transformación, tanto personal como profesional.
Este es un buen ejemplo de dos películas muy diferentes que han logrado triunfar una al lado de la otra. No siempre tiene que ser uno u otro. Pueden coexistir dos cosas. Entonces, como diría Austin Powers, “¡un capitalismo asombroso, maravilloso, asombroso!”
What if you scored a free trial of Apple TV+ for three months, or you have six free months of Apple Music through an offer you redeemed? Unfortunately, Apple One will cut those free trials down to the standard one-month period, after which you will start to pay the Apple One plan price you chose. Note: You don’t get any free trial allowance back if you cancel your Apple One plan.
Apple One Services
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What exactly do some of these services offer? Here’s a closer look:
Apple Music
Apple Music appears in our Best Streaming Services guide because the entire library of more than 90 million songs is available in lossless format, and you get immersive 3D sound with albums tuned in Dolby Atmos. It has an excellent iPhone app and Siri support, but the Android app is just OK, and we’re not fans of the desktop app. Social playlist sharing and curation don’t quite match up to our favorite service, Spotify, but the gap is closing. If you want to switch from Spotify to Apple Music, you can also take your playlists.
Apple TV+
With a focus on quality over quantity, Apple TV+ isn’t competing with the enormous libraries offered by Netflix, Disney+, and Hulu, and it deserves its place in our Best Streaming Services guide. It’s light on movies, though there are highlights, like Killers of the Flower Moon, Wolfwalkers, and Finch. But the real appeal of Apple TV+ is unmissable hit shows like Severance, Foundation, Ted Lasso, and The Morning Show, and it boasts excellent music documentaries, too. Everything is offered in 4K with HDR, and no, you don’t need an Apple TV to watch content in Apple TV+.
Apple Arcade
Closing in on three years since its release, the impact of Apple Arcade on mobile gaming is still unclear. What isn’t up for debate is the fact it offers some of the best mobile games without ads or in-app purchases. There are more than 200 titles in the Apple Arcade now, many of them exclusive. Some of our favorites include Mini Motorways, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Sneaky Sasquatch, Bloons TD6, and Assemble With Care.
iCloud+
Everyone gets 5 GB of storage space in iCloud for free, but that soon fills up with device backups, photos, and videos. You can upgrade to iCloud+ to get 50 GB, 200 GB, or 2 TB, and each option supports family sharing. There are several alternative cloud storage services that work well with Apple devices, but iCloud is tightly integrated. Aside from the extra space, another reason to upgrade to iCloud+ is for HomeKit Secure Video. It allows HomeKit security cameras and video doorbells to record 10 days of activity, viewable in the Home app. The 50-GB plan supports a single camera, the 200-GB plan covers up to five cameras, and the 2-TB plan supports unlimited cameras. These HomeKit videos don’t count against your iCloud storage limit. Every iCloud+ subscription also includes Private Relay, which encrypts your Safari web browsing, and Hide My Email, which gives you unique, random email addresses to use when you’d prefer to keep yours private.
Apple News+
If you love to read great magazines like (ahem) WIRED, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Time, People, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Popular Science, or newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, you can find them and many more, cover-to-cover, in the News app with an Apple News+ subscription. The service saves you from paywalls, features slick presentation, and offers curation based on your interests. On the downside, it doesn’t include everything—The New York Times and The Washington Post are famously unavailable. It also only works on Apple devices.
Apple Fitness+
Workout subscription services grew popular at the start of the pandemic, as people could no longer visit the gym. Apple Fitness+ offers various workout types, from yoga to strength training, audio-guided walks and runs, and meditations, along with plenty of real-time metrics. It works via the Fitness app on an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV, and it requires an Apple Watch Series 3 or newer. You can read more about it in our review, but the service has since expanded. (Apple adds around 30 new workouts and meditations every week.)
How to Subscribe to Apple One
If you are sold on Apple One, signing up on an Apple device is easy. Go to Settings, Account (tap on your name), Subscriptions, and you will see Apple One with the option to Try It Now. That’s it!
Every Google account comes with 15 gigabytes of free cloud storage shared across Google Drive, Google Photos, and Gmail. But with videos of your kids, hi-res photos of your pets, and work files, that space doesn’t stretch far these days. Google One is the company’s subscription service, with several tiers to expand your cloud storage for a monthly fee. Storage can be shared with your family, but it’s just the start—there are other benefits to subscribing.
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100-GB Plan: For $2 per month or $20 per year, you get 100 gigabytes you can share with up to five family members, plus access to Google experts, Play Store credits, special editing features in Google Photos, discounts on Google hardware, and deals on select hotels.
200-GB Plan: For $3 per month or $30 per year, you get 200 GB with the same perks as above, plus 3 percent back on purchases from the Google Store.
2-TB Plan: For $10 per month or $100 per year, you get 2 terabytes with family sharing, the same perks as the first tier, 10 percent back on purchases from the Google Store, and a VPN for Android and iOS.
In the unlikely event that 2 TB is not enough, you can increase your storage, but the option to upgrade to an even larger plan is available only for current subscribers and in select countries. Here are the plans (no annual discount on the 10-, 20-, or 30-TB plans):
