Against the grain- One in a million

[Conegamer]

okr said:

Smeags said:

I wish video game development was more open like with movies, where the development costs are open for everyone to see. That would be awesome to see, so we could actually have a measurment of success for the game to reach.

Very true.

A  movie comparison example:

Tangled: $260 million estimated production budget (incredible, if true) vs. $478.3 million worldwide boxofiice so far  http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rapunzel.htm

Black Swan: $13 million estimated budget vs. $146.7 million ww boxoffice up to now
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blackswan.htm

Tangled will most likely sell excellently on DVD/BluRay and also profit from merchandise, but it also had without a doubt a way higher promotion budget and Black Swan will also sell a few DVDs/BluRays, especially when it wins a few Oscars, such as best actress. I think we can already conclude that Black Swan will be more profitable for Fox Searchlight than Tangled for Disney.

Really? That low?

Another example of course is Paranormal Activity, great film, but only cost around 20,000 to make, so they would have undeniably have made a massive profit on it!