Numbers, numbers and more....numbers

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Budget = $5 million
Box Office = $240 million
Profit = 48 times budget

Napoleon Dynamite
Budget = $400k
Box Office = $44 million
Profit = 110 times budget

Blair Witch Project
Budget = $35k
Box Office = $140 million
Profit = 4,000 times budget

Even if you didn't like those movies, you gotta like those numbers.
 
Biggest Money Losers, Based on Absolute Loss on Worldwide Gross
Release Date....Movie......................Distributor.....Budget.............Worldwide Gross...Loss
4/27/2001.........Town & Country.....New Line........$105,000,000...$10,364,769.........-$99,817,616
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Ouch.


- Mikko
 
Check out the numbers for Stealth, The Island, Cutthroat Island. Got to believe a few office changes, and many bottles of pepto were consumed by the producers involved.
 
Prairieboy said:
Check out the numbers for Stealth, The Island, Cutthroat Island. Got to believe a few office changes, and many bottles of pepto were consumed by the producers involved.
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don't forget Pluto Nash :grin:
 
wait, wait wait. There's a mistake in there I think...

How does a studio spend 145 million on a cartoon? A bad one at that? (See Tarzan). Did I miss something here, read it wrong? That can't be the right number, right?
 
US made cartoons at that level are expensive. Thats why no one makes em
anymore.

Its also post Disney/Dreamworks talent bidding wars.
 
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