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Originally Posted by System_Crush
Well I didn't specifically meant to insinuate that Anet would be payrolling the actors.
It's about the type of financiers Anet could attract and what type of production companies this would open up to them.
So what I was saying is:
"It's not how much money you have...
It's who wants to know you, because of how much money you have."
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Excellent point SC. Yes, I imagine one of the big selling point when Blizzard was pitching WoW to film production companies was the gross sales. AND the gross sales for the entire
Warcraft franchise might have come into play in Legendary's decision to make a
Warcraft film rather than a
WoW film.
Your point earlier about low budget films was also very good. It's interesting what can happen with a 'small' film.
El Mariachi is a legendary example... one of the most exciting filmmaking stories ever told. Robert Rodriquez had a (production) budget of $7K, and he had to stay in budget because the $7K was
his own money... and it was all he had. He made the film with the intention of taking it straight to the Hispanic video market. On the way there though (to the Hispanic video market), he entered it in some film festivals where execs from Columbia Pictures saw it and without hesitation bought the rights to it. They then tacked on a modest print and advertising budget and distributed it. In it's first weekend out, the box office gross was $313K. The historic domestic box office gross, which was achieved within a scant few months, is $2MM. The initial weekend's gross is a mere 15.3% of that total domestic gross. That means the word of mouth on this film was phenomenal... and it was... because the film is indeed excellent.
I was there at Columbia when this 'little' film came into our universe. I saw it, and I experienced the excitement that swept through the studio... and it
was exciting. The legend is true. P&A budgets are proprietary information, and, although I heard it from a highly reliable source, I only know what it was
rumored to be, and I don't repeat rumors
. Please see this page on
IMDb to further understand the lack of availability of film cost information. Suffice it to say that the domestic gross put the film far into the black and was more than most expected. Additionally, the success of
El Mariachi opened the door for other low-budget films such as
The Blair Witch Project and several others to receive major distribution deals.
If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend it. FYI, Netflix has it available as a double disk with the sequel,
Desperado.
