Following the success of "Basic Instinct", Eszterhas produced two films in 1997, both of which he wrote: "Telling Lies in America" and "". "Burn Hollywood Burn", about a director named Alan Smithee who films a big-budget bomb and then tries to destroy it, flopped at the box office. It did win several Golden Raspberry Awards, four of them awarded to Eszterhas himself: Worst Picture (Eszterhas was the film's uncredited producer), Worst Screenplay, and both Worst New Star and Worst Supporting Actor for a brief on-screen cameo.