What was the production  cost of a 1998 film that was directed by an American film director born on September 11th, 1940?
$73 million
Title: Brian De Palma
Passage: Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.  He is considered part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
Title: James Merendino
Passage: James Anthony Merendino (born January 11, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter who is best known for directing the 1998 film "SLC Punk! ".
Title: Alec Smight
Passage: Alec Dow Smight is an American film editor and television director born in New York City.  He was a producer and director on the successful series "" and has directed two episodes of its spin-off "".  Son of the well-known television and film director Jack Smight, his editing work includes "Chicago Hope", numerous television pilots, "Northern Exposure", and "L.A. Law".
Title: The Show of Shows
Passage: The Show of Shows is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all talking Vitaphone production cost $850,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor.  "The Show of Shows" was Warner Bros.' fifth color movie; the first four were "The Desert Song" (1929), "On with the Show" (1929), "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929) and "Paris" (1929).  ("Song of the West" was actually completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930).  "The Show of Shows" featured most of the contemporary Warner Bros. film stars, including John Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, Noah Beery, Sr., Loretta Young, Dolores Costello, Bull Montana, Myrna Loy, Chester Conklin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Tully Marshall, Nick Lucas, and Betty Compson.
Title: Annie (2014 film)
Passage: Annie is a 2014 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Will Gluck and produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment for Sony Pictures' Columbia Pictures.  A contemporary adaptation of the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name, the film stars Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Cameron Diaz.  The third film adaptation, following Columbia's 1982 theatrical film and Disney's 1999 television film, "Annie" began production in August 2013 and opened on December 19, 2014 to generally negative reviews, and was not a box office success, grossing only $133 million against a below-line production cost of over $65 million.
Title: Gunther von Fritsch
Passage: Gunther von Fritsch (15 July 1906, Pula – 27 August 1988, Pasadena) was an American film director born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Title: Snake Eyes (film)
Passage: Snake Eyes is a 1998 American conspiracy thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, featuring his trademark use of long tracking shots and split screens.  It starred Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise and Carla Gugino.  The film was written by David Koepp and De Palma, and was released to theaters on August 7, 1998.  It cost an estimated $73 million to produce and returned $103 million worldwide, but received mixed to negative reviews from critics.
Title: Parts: The Clonus Horror
Passage: Parts: The Clonus Horror, also known as Clonus, is a 1979 science fiction horror film about an isolated community in a remote desert area, where clones are bred to serve as a source of replacement organs for the wealthy and powerful.  It was a Myrl Schreibman production, executive produced by Walter Fiveson and produced by Schreibman and Robert Fiveson, directed by Robert Fiveson, and stars Dick Sargent as the laboratory director and Peter Graves as a corrupt politician.  The production cost of the movie was $257,000.  Although they did not feature in any scenes together, the following year Graves and Frank Ashmore would appear together in the comedy "Flying High! ".
Title: E. Elias Merhige
Passage: Edmund Elias Merhige, known as E. Elias Merhige (born June 14, 1964), is an American film director born in Brooklyn.
Title: CMLL 65th Anniversary Show
Passage: The CMLL 65th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in 1998.  Different sources identify different shows in September as the actual Anniversary Show, either on September 11 or September 18, or possibly both as CMLL has held multiple shows to commemorate their anniversary in the past.  Both shows took place in Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.  The September 11th show consisted of five matches in total, with one of the featured bouts being a Best two-out-of-three falls "Lucha de Apuesta" mask vs. mask match between Último Guerrero and Mr. Águila, the first "Luchas de Apuestas" match of Último Guerrero's career.  The September 18th show consisted of five matches, with the main event being a Six-man tag team match between the teams of "Los Capos" (Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000) and Emilio Charles Jr. taking on three representatives of CMLL's main "rúd" (bad guy) group "Los Boriquas", Kevin Quinn, El Boricua and Miguel Perez Jr. The semi-main event was a "Lucha de Apuestas", hair vs. hair match between Ricky Santana and Apolo Dantés.  In addition the show also featured an additional six-man tag match, an eight-man "Atomicos" match and a tag team match.  One or both of the evets commemorated the 65th anniversary of CMLL, the oldest professional wrestling promotion.  in the world.  The Anniversary show is CMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event.
Snake Eyes (film) Brian De Palma