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Post by nigel on May 19, 2005 11:25:12 GMT -5
i bought undead about a month ago and rebought the UK release so i could see the behind the scenes, no one got paid, there was bake beans for food, and everything was borrowed, used or rented, effects on home pc, edited on adrobe and shoot on 16mm,
so it sounds very low budget. Untill you hear the budget was 400,000 pounds thts 1,000,000 Austrailan dollors. Where the hell did they spend it ?
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Post by rjschwarz on May 19, 2005 12:15:20 GMT -5
Was it filmed on digital video or film? Film costs can easily run up to $10,000 American for dailys, color correction, blowups to proper print size. How much for film permits in Australia? Did the locations want money? I've heard there are some special effects, that might have cost.
Most likely though the film actors were paid with promises (an IOU) and those promised salaries were included in the cost totals when the movie was sold to a distributer. The cast where then paid with the distributers check. The cast basically took a risk they'd never get paid. The director/producer took a risk that the increased costs could cost him distribution. But hopefully it all worked out.
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Post by nigel on May 20, 2005 5:44:20 GMT -5
maybe they where paid IOU, defereed payments, but when you hear El Mariachi costs $7,000 and thats on film, you just wonder where the money went, after seeing the behind the scenes, and you wonder whether its made money?
It was shot on 16mm. For some strange reason they hired a airplane hanger and built the set in there. I could or would rather buy a house and film in there instead.
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Post by rjschwarz on May 23, 2005 14:30:01 GMT -5
El Mariachi cost $7,000 but that's without dailies so Rodriguez took a huge gamble. That is also with a minimum of setups since the folks were speaking in Spanish and most audiences couldn't tell if they acted lame or not. That's also with the Studio who bought it paying the big bucks to have the film blown up to cinema size.
In his book he also goes into the amount of cleanup work that had to be done to make the movie presentable on a big screen. All of that was eaten by the studio as well. The $7,000 is a pretty deceptive number.
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Post by nigel on May 24, 2005 7:49:50 GMT -5
like in Blair Witch it was made for $22,000 but after the Stuido cleaned it up it ended up costing $500,000 for post. but still earned 200million+. I think it was mainly the hype tht sold that film.
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