25 Things You Didn't Know About Bram Stoker's Dracula
19. Dracula Saved Zoetrope
By the early 1990s, American Zoetrope, Coppola's production company, was facing financial collapse. Despite his reputation as one of America's most influential auteurs, Coppola's debts had risen to the tune of $27,000,000 and financiers were no longer in a position to back his future projects.
Despite that, Columbia Pictures fronted the cash after Coppola agreed to shoot entirely on sound stages to avoid any complications that location based productions might face.
Dracula would earn $215 million against a budget of just $30 million, ironically making it the first time a vampire has injected life into something.