How do they get funding

bloggs

There are such utter crap movies being made, I have always wondered how they manage to get funding, then they become turkeys and what do you know it, there is a sequel. Battlefield Earth, Greepers Creepers 2, Jason vs Freedy, anything with Kevin Costner, Christopher Lambert, or Steven Segal etc.

Don't executives just say to themselves, wow this is crap. Even the great Lord of the Rings, New Line wanted it to be dumbed down by giving Liv Tyler more scenes. Directors can be just as bad, all those stupid Police movies featuring the current Rap star. Ugggghhh!

weemcd

you know ghram norton went up to audition as a hobbit. imagine if he got in, he would of wrecked that film.!!!!

sceptre

Originally posted by bloggs
There are such utter crap movies being made, I have always wondered how they manage to get funding, then they become turkeys and what do you know it, there is a sequel. Battlefield Earth, Greepers Creepers 2, Jason vs Freedy, anything with Kevin Costner, Christopher Lambert, or Steven Segal etc.

Costner kept getting money because Dances With Wolves (no-one thought it would make any money until after he acted, produced and directed). Since The Postman and Wasterworld (oops, that actually was an accidental typo but I'll leave it) he's received far fewer blank production cheques (though Waterworld made a relatively good profit in the end). You've got to remember those unexpected blockbusters he acted in during the late 80s and early 90s as well (Field of dreams, DWW, JFK) and stuff he produced that made pots of money (Robin Hood and The Bodyguard). Hollywood's got a poor short-term memory.

I can't explain Segal. I suppose he's a "name". Like Lambert, though he's been in fewer expensive movies lately.

Jeepers Creepers and sequels are easy to explain. The first movie had a budget of 10 million and made a packet (cleared 15 million just on the opening weekend). Hence the second movie, with a 25 million budget that still couldn't buy a plot.

Now, Jan de Bont, I can't figure out how he's still employed.

SweetBirdOfTruth

they get funded because a lot don't cost too much too make and most make money - not on their cinema release, not always even with video/dvd sales, but when you add in tv rights you make money, eventually.

as for "dumbing down" lotr - eh, excuse me, but that was an attempt to give women a reason to go to see the film.

Samson

Originally posted by SweetBirdOfTruth
as for "dumbing down" lotr - eh, excuse me, but that was an attempt to give women a reason to go to see the film.

Yes, exactly.
The movie execs said to themselves "we gotta dumb this movie down, that way we'll get more women in."

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Originally posted by SweetBirdOfTruth they get funded because a lot don't cost too much too make and most make money - not on their cinema release, not always even with video/dvd sales, but when you add in tv rights you make money, eventually.

That's not really true.

Hollywood doesn't expect every film to make money, out of say 10 films, 5 will make a loss, 3 will break even or make mild profits and the other 2 will do so well that they'll cover the loss of the other 5
movies.

That's the basis that they work on.
Well at least that's what the documentary I saw on hollywood said. (:

SweetBirdOfTruth

Originally posted by Samson
Yes, exactly.
The movie execs said to themselves "we gotta dumb this movie down, that way we'll get more women in."

****ing lord of the rings freaks ....