Then advertising can cost as much as an additional 50% of a movie's production budget.
Furry Vengeance is one of those films that only earned back its production budget.
The film has already brought in 7.3 times its production budget at the box office.
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In Tinseltown, a film must be able to recover its production budget to be considered a box office success.
Besides dividing audiences, the glut of films caused Warner Independent's advertising costs to sometimes match the film's production budget.
In Tinseltown, a film must be able to at least recover its production budget to be considered a box office success.
But a month after getting the movie Searchlight sued Gilbert saying he had failed to pay his share of the production budget.
So in order to even begin to turn a profit, a movie needs to earn back a multiple of its production budget.
Keep in mind that to begin to even imagine breaking even a film needs to earn at least twice its production budget at the box office.
While The Jay Leno Show won't deliver much by way of ancillary revenue streams like syndication, international and DVDs, it will shave millions off the network's weekly production budget.
Studios take home, on average, half of the box office so a movie has to earn at least twice its production budget before it comes close to making a profit.
We also looked at which movies earned the most after expenses by dividing 50% of the worldwide box office of each film (to reflect the studio's take) by the film's total production budget.
But apart from having a production budget that is one fourth the size of Oz the Great and Powerful and thus a much lower threshold for profitability Dorothy of Oz could easily end up out-grossing its live-action rival.
You also want to see a producer taking advantage of the myriad tax credits many states offer, which can represent as much as 30% of the production budget and which can be used to start paying back investors.
And come next year, she gets to star in a big budget production, The Amazing Spider Man.
This is a low-budget production that looks like a million dollars greatly multiplied.
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And now he is aiming for further success with "Last Flight to Abuja, " a big-budget production starring many of Nollywood's biggest names.
As cutesy as any Hollywood romantic comedy and shallower than many, this low-budget production turns the scruffy intimacy and youthful quandaries of independent filmmaking into a trademark.
The production can go over budget, requiring ever more dollars from investors to complete.
Yet marketers often use the same old approach to digital: Spend a small percentage of the budget on production and a really big percentage on media.
News came down this weekend that Disney has halted production on its big-budget adaptation of The Lone Ranger.
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In other developments, Disney bought additional stake in an Indian gaming company, Indiagames and is planning to revive the production of its big-budget movie, The Lone Ranger.
He's saved coin by both brokering co-production deals on big-budget shows (by co-producing Crusoe with British producer company Power Entertainment, NBC minimizes its financial contribution and risk) and including more paying advertisers in his shows (his iteration of Knight Rider stars a Ford car).
But as the studios ceded the smaller budget films to independent production companies (who can be much more nimble), the movies that are left at the studios will need to be huge at the box office in order to produce profits.
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In the most lavish days of John Landis, Hype Williams and Spike Jonze, video budget was devoted to physical production- actors, location, set creation, etc.
Geddes for news operations, including the production of the newspaper and oversight of the budget.
It allocates an unusually large proportion of the budget to wages, and runs small production lines for airline headsets and aluminium windows.
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BBC and the split between the broadcast and production functions, which gave the broadcast side a budget for which the producers were to compete.
The "DepSecDef" adamantly insists in the closed-door budget deliberations over which he presides that production of the world's best fighter be terminated next year.
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