His three
films made less money at the box office than
Controlling for everything else that might affect the returns for a movie, the researchers found that post-BitTorrent
films made less money than pre-BitTorrent films.
Not exact matches
As far as the effects of this
film goes, they were decent, but it was nothing to gasp over, especially when
films made for far
less money have better production values.
«I'd rather have a lot
less money and
make a
film or a TV series and have a great time doing it than put it through a million processes and people you don't know and you don't respect creatively.»
More romantic is that fact that Malik couldn't care
less about
making money; as the
film bears out, his only motivation is to get the girl.
So, you can
make a
film more efficiently for
less money, and
making the
film is easier.
This power doesn't
make women any
less of a riddle to Tim, who apparently only uses his abilities to get laid, though no character ever seems to have a problem with
money over the
film's runtime.
I said it about both LONE RANGER and PACIFIC RIM - once the greenlight was
made, and the
money spent, as a viewer I couldn't care
less about their grosses while enjoying the
film.
Not to mention, Blumhouse Productions knows how to
make movies with a small budget which is exactly what's needed as
less money forces more creativity to
make a better, quality
film.
Although smaller in scale and ambition, and
lesser in terms of emotional content, this sequel is lighthearted, comical, occasionally charming, and while, on the whole, it's really all a superfluous
money grab, it is well
made and amiable enough to garner a recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the first
film and is anxious for more.
Also, yes, it's only January, but between this and The Darkest Hour 3D, the added dimension in 2012 is becoming
less of a gimmick and more the sole tool of bad
films to
make a little bit more
money.
Those
films didn't
make money, A24 knows this, so they carefully marketed this
film to a crowd that would take the bait, and it paid off with six million dollars (the
film probably cost
less than nine) and landed number eight on the weekends domestic box office.
Shot for very little
money, it put Henenlotter's name on the map and allowed him to go on and
make more off the wall horror
films like Brain Damage, Frankenhooker, Bad Biology, and no
less than two Basket Case sequels.