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mrstickball said:

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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.

Actually, according to Wikipedia, Paramount bought the domestic rights for Paranormal Activity, as well as international rights to any sequels, for $350,000.

The budget, which people will say is anywhere between $15,000-$30,000 was the original budget simply for shooting the film for Screamfest I believe.  There were some changes, as well as quite a bit of advertising after it was purchased by Paramount.