I just checked out the budgets for Die Hard (70 mil) & Batman (35 mil). Die Hard made 117 mil (US). 240 mil (worldwide). Batman made 241 mil (US) 411 mil (worldwide).
Neither of those films could be made on a $10 million budget, as too many seams would show. Jefferson is referring to indie movies with small casts and real but limited locations.
Oh yeah- though back in Corman's age they had a higher success rate with that largely because of the FIREHOSE of batshit movies they put out for drive ins and stuff compared to the weirdly more limited streaming platforms
oh no doubt. I guess its also because old drive in x and z movies were meant to be jizzed out fast then forgotten, but all the modern crap movies have netflix execs going "how do we keep this on people's feeds" lol
$1500 - all the actors worked for a % of streaming (hint $11 is my total take but was that 6 years ago, it was ripped off by pirates directly to torrents. shot with SD cameras by an idiot writer/) producer, me( vod.gregrank.us
Okay, yes, but also they could go broke filming the first 10% of a $2 billion movie and okay wait now that I put that into words I see how the other thing is better.
What if the winners names were printed and instead of a big production, all the money spent on this display of wealth was donated? To a shelter, to women's rights, to Ukraine, to the needy, to the homeless?
There certainly will be. All the actors said they will be available, the director wants to do it, just waiting on a studio greenlight but who would leave 10s of millions on the table? It's gonna happen.
