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Goddbless said:

Mordred11 said:

You guys are seeming to forget the marketing costs.The advertising budget for PA is most likely much bigger than it's whole production budget.

Green Lantern.It has a 200M$ production cost + an estimated 100M$(!) marketing budget.

The movie hasn't even reached 200M worldwide,I think it's Warner Bros.'s biggest flop in a loooong time.Even bigger than Jonah Hex http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jonahhex.htm

I remember watching some behind the scenes videos for the sequel and they said the original PA had a budget of $30,000. I'm guessing that was after advertising costs and what not.

There is no way advertising costs were $30,000 for PA. It had a massive PR campaign about it being the scariest movie ever.

Furthermore, the rights to PA were purchased for between $1-3 million USD. The real budget for PA, post-advertising was approximately $20 million dollars, give or take. Also remember that certain scenes in PA were re-shot after its aquisition.

Don't get me wrong - I am not trying to take away from the massive success of PA. The movie was phenominal, and I loved the 2nd one as well. But the issue is that costs on such movies after the filming can be pretty crazy when you add marketing in.

Another recent mega-hit in the horror department was Insidious. $1.5 million production budget, and has made $93 million USD worldwide and is still in theaters in Europe. I don't remember it having near the PR and advertisments, so the total cost was likely pretty low. Great movie, too.