Check BoxOfficeMojo.com and it will not only give recent film's grosses but for some will give you the films budget. When you consider that a film only gets about half of the box office receipts, a film has to make double in gross ticket sales to recoup money. Amazing when you consider $150 million movies like Terminator 4, or duds like Land Of Lost which of this writing grossed $44 million but had a budget of $100 million. Someone lost a ton of money.
Still with all these million dollar budgets, there have been those shoestring films that have broken out and done very well. Making their talent, superstars.
El Mariachi - $7,000
Robert Rodriguez made this film on an amazing shoestring and when found by the majors made him a star. Directing two high budget remakes wityh Antonio Banderas and a number of Quentin Tarantino paired features.
Blair Witch - $22,000
Though the directors could have written their own ticket afterwards, the opted to stay home and in subsequent films stay in the same genre. The genius of this film is its use of the viewer's imagination against himself. Another remarkable note is that this is the first film to heavily use the Internet to market the film.
Clerks - $28,000
Kevin Smith's breakout film put him over. He has done many big budget films since and is an A-lister in Hollywood. He even did a sequel of Clerks with a $5 million dollar budget. The key to this film is dialog.
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