Comment by moralestapia
2 days ago
What's even more impressive is that they've done this with an 80M USD budget.
It is probably the movie with the highest ROI ever at ~25x (and counting).
2 days ago
What's even more impressive is that they've done this with an 80M USD budget.
It is probably the movie with the highest ROI ever at ~25x (and counting).
Blair Witch Project had ~$250 million box office on less than a million dollar budget including marketing (>250x) but the record holder is probably Deep Throat (1972) which had a box office of $30-50 million on a budget of $50k (>600x).
That the record holder is rape porn I think says a lot about our civilization.
Cost is a big issue for Hollywood. Recently we have learned about "flopbusters": movies that made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office and yet were failures, because hundreds of millions still wasn't enough to cover the astronomical production and marketing costs.
To cover their costs, studios are chasing wider and wider audiences, having to please more and more people, which unfortunately makes lowest-common-denominator slop the safe choice.