Posted on January 16, 2009 in Budgeting | 1 Comment
Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times delivers the shock of all shocks, people in Hollywood lie.
…The studio chief who made the movie gives you a low-ball number. The head of a rival studio, eager to make a competitor look bad, gives you a wildly inflated number. Most journalists have reported that Baz Luhrmann’s recent film, “Australia,” cost $130 million. 20th Century Fox insists that it cost less, saying it received a hefty subsidy from the Australian government, knocking $30 or so million off that figure. But every rival studio chief I spoke to about the film said with great authority, as if they’d seen a host of internal Fox documents, that the film cost $170 or $180 or $200 million, just to throw out the three different figures I got from three different executives.
Tags: Australia, Budgeting, Distribution, Marketing, Pre-production
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Yeah, i already thought of that before. Best example is “Cloverfield”, i guess that movie was even made to let the competitors look bad. If you look at the special effects and everything, this movie could not be produced for the budget of 30 million dollars… no way…