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| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
kinda on the same topic although much more impressive was Flight. How they managed to make that for 30 million is beyond me. Denzel,Zemeckis , silvestri .... There is no way you could watch that and think it had a 30 m budget. |
Haven;t seen it yet, but on paper it is quite a feat.
The only thing is, I've seen countless times, films get made for pennies where it should have cost millions. My old boss would take on at least 3 to 4 projects a year for nothing. I mean nada. All the recording, overdubs the mixing
Just either because it was a project he wanted as something interested him about (or sometimes didn't want someone else to get the gig - i.e. sidelining the compeition) or because he wanted to work with that producer or director (i.e. to ingratiate himself for future projects that had big budgets) or sometimes purely as a favor to the studio so next time he gets a shoe-in for the next gig.
Directors do the same.
Also, it can be a real financial boon for studio; Take Flight for instance. it cost $30m to make, probably another 10-15 in extra costs (marketing, ancillaries, etc), so $45m tops, but has already taken $90+m in the USA alone, and that's before DVD/BR/VoD etc.
That's a big profit for the studio, and again, probably why the favors were done by all involved. Denzel gets the next action/thriller gig which pays $10m, silvestri gets a nice gig, and zimeckis gets first dibs on a new script.
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