Huge movie budgets...

[Tweek]

I get so nervous for some movies when they have abonormally huge budgets.
i mean, damn, that's a lotta dough. like spidey 2 is $200, 000,000.

how do directors not get nervous with that amount of money?
Just hearing about it makes me nervous for them


and it has to be recouped PLUS profit.

[SykkBoy]

I get nervous too
I'd hate to see a megaudgeted movie tank and possibly take down a whole studio with it and possibly damage the release of some great smaller movies...

I'm sure some of them get a little nervous, but if you want to see a director get REALLY nervous, make him finance a movie with his own money ;-)

That's why I think Mel Gibson has the biggest balls on the planet...

[Tweek]

Originally posted by SykkBoy

That's why I think Mel Gibson has the biggest balls on the planet...


yeah, 35 million of his own dough... and he makes hundreds of millions

terminator is one of my favorite movies and it was only made with a few million.

[Cyd V]

Originally posted by Tweek
I get so nervous for some movies when they have abonormally huge budgets.
i mean, damn, that's a lotta dough. like spidey 2 is $200, 000,000.

how do directors not get nervous with that amount of money?
Just hearing about it makes me nervous for them


and it has to be recouped PLUS profit.

I don't get nervous or feel bad for them, it's their descision. That's why directors like Tarantino, the Coen Bro's etc work with modest budgets, so they don't have the pressure of the studio on their back. If they make a 100 mil 200 mil flick, then they get to less creative control, the studio makes their descisions for them, no matter how stupid they are... as it's not the directors who are nervous, it's all the investors that get nervous.

[JCR]

Originally posted by Cyd V
I don't get nervous or feel bad for them, it's their descision. That's why directors like Tarantino, the Coen Bro's etc work with modest budgets, so they don't have the pressure of the studio on their back. If they make a 100 mil 200 mil flick, then they get to less creative control, the studio makes their descisions for them, no matter how stupid they are... as it's not the directors who are nervous, it's all the investors that get nervous.

Not sure if that's 100% true, you could see SR's mark on spidey, and I'm sure you'll see it on spidey 2. And JK Rowling reportedly has complete control on the big budget harry potters.

On the other side of the coin, I can't see pitof getting another big budget movie anytime soon.

[perreli]

I feel sorry for Kevin Costner. After the bomb that was Waterworld no major studios would even go near him. So its not just the directors and studios that get nervous but the big name actors as well.

[Ender]

Remember that in the case of big sequels like Spiderman 2, the budget is reflective of the returns on the first film.