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Originally Posted by Atticus
Crash was a huge success. Already grossed $60 Mil and only cost $8 Mil to produce. Hollywood will always cater to 16 - 25 year old men. Thats who goes to the movies multiple times a month. Adults have more things to do, kids to raise, jobs to keep etc so they go to less movies so Hollywodd makes less for them and when they do, they promote it less. As someone said earlier, its not the quality of the movie that is the problem, (people are still renting and buying DVD's) its the improved technology that allows you to gte the theater experience at home. Now the only thing they have going for them to get people to see the movie in the theater is the early release date.
On a related note, you could change the words Hollywod to "The Adult Internet Industry" and movies to "sites" in the title of this thread and its completely true.
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You are correct, good post.
The $8M cost on Crash was incorrect however, it doesn't include any of the marketing cost the studio endures to promote the film (television ads, radio spots, print ads, billboards, etc). Still, even if you triple the cost to say a more realistic $25M, it still nearly passed the golden rule, which is that a film needs to gross "three times its cost in dollars in order to turn a profit". That puts Crash at needing around $75M to put it at that mark.
Also, DVD sales aren't factored into those figures, studios don't like to talk about the massive profits they're realizing from the disc sales, so it's likely good to go.
Regardless, the truth is that movies are an art form, and it's taking more and more "TGP" type movies (garbage) to find those "SEO" levels of quality (Crash) lol.