Mo Money Mo Problems: Wall Street banks Hong Kong Filmmakers
*EDIT: I've added "Hero" to the list below.
When I first read that John Woo’s new film “Red Cliff” is the most expensive Asian movie ever, I thought wait, wasn’t “The Curse of the Golden Flower” the most expensive film ever? So here is a short list of some notable movies along with its budget and box office gross in US dollars (approximate):
Red Cliff (2007)
Budget: $75MM; Worldwide Gross: ????
The Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Budget: $45MM; Worldwide Gross: $19MM
The Promise (2006)
Budget: $42MM; Worldwide Gross: $23MM
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Budget: $14MM; Worldwide Gross: $93MM
Hero (2002)
Budget: $30MM; Worldwide Gross: $170MM
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Budget: $15MM; Worldwide Gross: $209MM
Source: IMDB Pro
Is it me or are movies getting more and more expensive but the gross margins getting weaker and weaker? But that doesn’t matter right? As long as Wall Street and the likes of Goldman Sachs are willing to put down a golden brick or two to back these ventures, the movies will keep coming. Of course, I don’t mind because I’m a huge fan of this particular genre of film. I just hope that budget and quality are not negatively correlated.
1 comments:
I think the question is what defines quality these days. Or rather what the correct definition of quality is for that year, generation etc. You see alot of movies that bombed in the past that are now considered "classics" and vice versa. I pray that movies like Scary Movie No.576 does not get deemed as a "classic" in 50 years. The sad part is that I predict something like this to actually happen because I have lost all faith in our culture. - ABK
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