How much money can you earn after making a movie??
Question by picklye: How much money can you earn after making a movie??
I’m wondering how much money can you earn after making a great movie. I am talking about a good movie which gets exported like “click” or “war of the worlds”. I heard that the movie companies, or something,,, can earn a lot money from making an excellent movie, but how much does the director earn?
P.S. I’m sorry about the type os,,
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Answer by Bert T
There is no way to really answer this question. The answer could be anything, depending on how successful the movie is, what kind of movie, it is, how much is spent on talent, advertising, extras, etc. Some problems with your question:
1. The director is hired just as actors, grips, painters, etc., are.. His or her paycheck is solely determined by what is budgeted to pay the director. Sometimes signing a proven successful director can increase a budget for a movie, as some directors are known to be into special effects and such.
2. If youre a big name actor, you can either get a flat fee of millions, depending on if you have a slate of successful movies, and you can also get what is known as “back-end participation”, which means they get an additional payment, a part of the gross profit, or net, depending. There are no set rules for this, except for the Union people who work behind the scenes on films. Their salaries are non-negotiable.
There are enormous costs associated with making a large studio movie, but independent movies are made for much much less, being made outside the “studio” system and not using Union workers or actors. George Lucas is non-union.
After the movie is made, there is promotion. If this is a big summer release, it is given an advertising budget of millions of dollars, including actors giving interviews, press junkets, giveaways, posters, commercials, etc. Prints of the film and shipment to theaters is also costly but a very tinly portion of the overall budget.
Then there are costs associated with home release of these movies. DVDs to press, cases and artwork to produce, extras to include, commmentaries to record, etc. All this has to come out of what the movie made in the 2 or 3 months it is in theaters.
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