I know 'Titanic' cost a little more than 200 MILLION!
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'Saw' only cost 1.2 Million (The budget of a 'D' movie (Direct-to-video). Then of course, they decided it deserved a theatrical release so it ended up doing 55 Million in the US alone.
'The Blair Witch Project' came along in 1999 with a budget of ONLY 35 Thousand! It became the highest grossing independent movie of all time after taking in 140 Million and replaced the then current highest grossing independent which was John Carpenter's Halloween (it's budget was a mere 325, 000). Compared to the 9th Halloween movie, soon to be released, with a budget of 35 Million! Most movies that are considered 'A' Hollywood movies have budgets between 35 and 100 million. Projected blockbusters usually get a budget of 150 million (give or take a few mill) :-) As you can see, it's not really budget that makes or breaks a movie. It's the creativity put into the making of the movie. That said, obviously, with a very low budget, the director/producers/actors have to be more creative to get more out of their budget dollar. Whereas, if you got 100 million to play with (after paying Will Ferrell his 20 million ...lol) then you have the luxury of taking the easy (usually more expensive) way. Example: No money left in budget to make that 'Death Star' come to life. The creative team uses paper cardboard, egg cartons, tin foil and other household items and then invent a new camera/filming technique and now they have a 'Death Star' that looks real on screen. 100 million dollar budget and you could just go 'Ey give those computer animators a couple million and let 'em CGI us a 'Death Star'. Not as creative. The original Star Wars had a budget of 13 Million, btw. 'Revenge Of The Sith' had a budget of 113 million. Both look amazing in their own right though... ;-)
2007-04-11 12:33:53
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