If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
Since then, Fox's soundstages have hosted a cattle call of largely U.S.-funded productions, from Dark City to Babe: Pig in the City, The Matrix, M:I-2 and Red Planet.