Interesting film facts

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ARTmom

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Read this about The Blair Witch Project just now on IMDB, it's bloody amazing!

This film was in the Guinness Book Of World RecorRAB for "Top Budget:Box Office Ratio" (for a mainstream feature film). The film cost $22,000 to make and made back $240.5 million, a ratio of $1 spent for every $10,931 made.

:eek::eek::eek:
 
Just shows what hype and massive pre-publicity can do. It was a truly awful film, but the level of anticipation created by the publicity that surrounded it meant it raked in millions.

Another fact I read once. The entire production cost of The Full Monty is the same amount that was spent on just one second of Waterworld. Don't know how true that is, but it seems feasible.
 
What was the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I thought that was really low, and it must have made a lot.

Primer was made for $5,000, and it's a great film, but it didn't do well at the box office.

To be fair to the Blair Witch Project, that project wasn't just the film - the whole internet mythology thing that was created before the film was released was just as much a part of the project as the film was. And it was really well done.
 
My mate was in The Full Monty, he played the guy with the ponytail and newspaper stood at the front of the queue in the dole office when they are dancing to Hot Stuff, he got fifty quid for it.
 
No. He's a software engineer now - never took up acting as a career. But every time its on I nudge him to let him know. His surname's Wilkinson - same as Tom Wilkinson, who played Gerald, who's stood right behind him - but they're not related.
 
Didn't know the profit to cost ratio was that good! Truly amazing. The people who made The Blair Witch Project certainly knew what they were doing. The whole way in which the film was promoted by means of the "bush telegragh" over the internet was brilliant. Just goes to show how a riveting film like that can be made on a low budget.
 
Before the release of Star Wars, the biggest profit that 20th Century Fox posted in a year was $ 37,000,000. In 1977 after the release of Star Wars it posted a profit of $79,000,000.
 
Okay, here are a few that I found online:

* Film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".

* Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan were originally cast for the lead roles in Casablanca.

* Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors was made in just two days.
 
here is a fact you all may know......

The mask in the original Halloween film is William Shatner ( Capt Kirk)

I have seen that film dozens of times and never knew tha until recently:eek:
 
Steven Spielberg originally wanted Danny DeVito to play Sallah and DeVito was set for the role, but he had to drop out due to conflicts with "Taxi"
 
Ooh! That reminRAB me of one of my Hitchcock favourites:

In Suspicion (1941), "In the scene where Johnnie brings a glass of milk up to Lina, Alfred Hitchcock had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister."
 
In Mulholland Drive the actor who plays The Cowboy had his eyebrows shaved off "to give the character a more subtle, disturbing appearance".
The same trick was used with The Mystery Man in Lost Highway.
 
A sequel to Titanic - Titanic 2 - was greenlight but later scrapped due to the high budget. The plot was about a ship hitting an iceberg but the iceberg sank instead.
 
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