The High Cost of Movie Production To Keep Us Entertained

By Rowland Conner

There is virtually no limit to the amount of money that Hollywood will spend to keep us entertained. They realize that the more they can lure us into the theaters with special effects, head-spinning plots and premium actors, the more they stand a chance to create a blockbuster hit.

If a movie really takes off at the box office, producers, directors and movie cast will more than make up the cost of producing a movie hit. Some big movies have generated well over 100 million dollars in sales. When a film flops that is a different story.

Before a new movie is released, Hollywood will often create a lot of publicity around a new release prior to the movie hitting the theaters. The publicity spreads life wild-fire and creates anticipation and excitement. A classic example is all the publicity that was generated around the new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Producers know that a movie will either be a smash hit or a dismal failure during the first week it is released in theaters. As a way of boosting ticket sales, they will often do pre-screenings of new releases so media personal can get a preview of the movie. They do this in hopes of getting favorable television reviews and newspaper write-ups all across the country.

Hollywood has released so many movies in the last 75 years that they know what really entertains us. It is much easier for them to release a blockbuster hit today than it was 20 years ago. Surprisingly, not all hits costs tens of millions of dollars. Movies such as Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13 were created on a fairly low budget, but spawned a cult like following of loyal movie watchers and more sequels than any other movies made over time.

Hollywood not only generates millions of dollars in tickets sales as new releases hit the theaters, but they also get a percentage of sales from DVD rentals and purchases too. Older classics are still favored by many. Some people buy entire collections and series of movies and television shows such as the popular show 24.

Older movie classics like Godzilla and King Kong have been remade using modern special effects and have attracted a wide viewing audience. These are movies that once entertained us with mediocre special effects now updated with dazzling life-like quality. One of the newer in this genre that paid off well was the Jurassic Park series. With almost two sold out sequels and tens of thousands of DVD rentals and sales, it paid off big for producers.

During the past ten years Hollywood has created a new kind of fictional movie taken from the pages of Marvel Comic books. Batman, Superman, and Cat Woman are all examples of how special effects have made it possible to bring anything to life on the big screen. If it can be imagined, then they will find a way to bring it to life in a new and entertaining way. - 30202

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