27 Apr 2005
How To Finance a Hollywood Blockbuster

And these Hollywood moguls have the nerve to complain about peer networks ripping them off! Wow ... wish I had that much chutzpah!

As paradoxical and absurd as it sounds, it's cheaper for a Hollywood studio to make a big-budget action movie than to make a shoestring art film like Sideways. Consider Paramount's 2001 action flick Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. On paper, Tomb Raider's budget was $94 million. In fact, the entire movie cost Paramount less than $7 million. How did the studio collect over $87 million before cameras started rolling?

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