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  • Movie Budgets - the New Models

    Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 4:54AM / Standard Entry / Members only
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    At this point I think we're looking at two kinds of movie budgets versus five.

    It used to be:

    1) Ridiculously high price tag blockbusters  (100m +)
    2) Medium high studio films  (30ish to 60ish million)
    3) High Indies (2 to 30 m independently made then studio picked up.
    4) Low Budget Indies (mostly direct to video 500k to 2m)
    5) Ultra low and micro budget indies (under 500k... rarely break out, but do sometimes)

    I think the future is:

    1) Ridiculously high price tag blockbusters  (100m +)
    2) Everything else independent which will mostly be in the sub 1m range and even more commonly sub 500k)

    I think the ultra micro budget world will be so filled with competition, it will be difficult to break out but very niche concepts will actually flourish.

    Very much like the music industry I think that the industry will become more workable for more people, but less lucrative for everyone.

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  • moonchild72
     moonchild72
    posted on Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 12:49PM [Report]
    Well, not ALL of the so-called "blockbusters" are worth the money spent ~ quite frankly, I've been more into watching indie productions :)
  • pedrochaves
    Official artist Pedro Chaves
    posted on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 8:37PM [Report]
    I agree,

    the middle is dying.

    and it's definitly becoming troublesome.
  • D.Y._Sao
    Official artist D.Y. Sao
    posted on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 7:35AM [Report]
    "very niche concepts will actually flourish"
    I don't mind this :)

    Honestly, thanks for sharing the info.
  • JoanneSanderson
    JoanneSanderson
    posted on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 3:00AM [Report]
    I think I have to agree, and since the success of the Ultra low budget flick "Colin", more people will try to repeat the success and flood the market, very few will break-out from the pack. I do see more of a two tier than five tier structure coming into play.
  • ching388
    ching388
    posted on Saturday, Oct 17, 2009 10:05AM [Report]
    Alright is not bad this is the comment

    I am watching the smal and close thing but
    try not to get rid of it so I really look at your film,

    THen I think I have  to get of my horse and think again ,so I need to have a lots of back up at that  time so I can feel protected but not so......................

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