| daredevil.shark said: Sony pictures makes cheap and shit movies. Plus they lack direction. This is kinda expected. |
This is the director saying it needs about this much to be successful, remember success and break even are not the same, and remember just beating production budget with box office ticket sales is not break even.
| Fei-Hung said: Anyone else notice that it hasn't opened in many foreign markets compared to other films. |
It won't open in some markets like China due to supernatural elements or something, someone told me this, maybe it was lawlight.
| SuaveSocialist said: I disagree; Star Trek's last 3 movies fell short of 500 mil, the last 2 had 185M budgets and a fourth is confirmed. Ghostbusters probably won't get a sequel, but not because of the 150/500M formula. |
Of course it varies from studio to studio, who funds it, etc etc. However I think his statement is really in regards to something like his film that has large marketing budget on top of the production budget, plus all the tail end stuff. This was more to highlight do not think just because something costs $150, beating that number equals successful. Again do not think that his point is about breaking even, but more about viability of a franchise aka succesful movie with whatever budget they had.
