Every Hollywood producer has one target in mind when they make a motion picture. They want to put out a motion picture that is a enormous sensation that the public loves. A magnificent plot, some first-rate stars along with a couple of special effects and there you have the ingredients for a enormous box-office success. Or do you? Sometimes a film will have all of the theoretical indispensable components and it will still be unsuccessful at the box office. There are no sure recipes to make a Hollywood best-seller.
The amount of money that can be used up on a film in order to make a blockbuster success seems to be inexhaustible. But the fact of the matter is that until the movie hits the box office and actually brings in huge sales in ticket receipts it is a risk. Of course, there are always those directors who seem to have the magic touch and there are stars who possess the magic to be able to secure a blockbuster for awhile, if you look at past history even the most popular stars have acted in box-office disasters.
Hollywood has brought us what seems like millions of films and it would seem that they would know exactly what the public wants to see. However, popular opinion is unpredictable and there are no sure things. Sometimes a big-budget film with all of the seeming best aspects for success still fails miserably at the box office.
An excellent instance of this phenomenon happened in the not to distant past. In 2005, the film "Sahara" was released with an all-star group of actors, great special effects and more. The motion picture really did quite well at the box office where it opened to $18 million on the first weekend. The movie generated $122 million in gross-box office receipts, which is not too bad. But this movie was tremendously costly to produce. It ended up losing a ton of money because it had expenses of $281.2 million right through the production yet it only brought in revenues of $202.9 million. "Sahara" was one of the biggest economic failures in Hollywood history.
Looking at the contrast, in'99, "The Blair Witch Project" essentially had the highest ratio of box office sales compared to production costs in American filmmaking history until 2009 when "Paranormal Activity" eclipsed it. There are varying reports on the production cost of "The Blair Witch Project" but the highest approximation was at $100,000. This motion picture grossed over $248 million at the box office globally.
One key factor but by no means a promise for box office success is making a buzz with media coverage. This can produce a frenzy of eagerness that can contribute greatly to a great opening weekend. But opening weekend receipts never tell the complete story and in order to be a huge box-office achievement a motion picture must continue to be popular.
Even though Hollywood has brought us so many movies and one might think that they would have figured out how precisely to make a runaway success hit, a great part of the excitement for producers and movie attendees alike is the fact that there are no guarantees. "Sure thing" movie plots and "can't miss" actors don't actually exist.
There will always be those shocking box office surprises, either the startling blockbuster hit or the failure that no one could forecast. And that is part of the magic and fascination of films and Hollywood; you never know just what might be the huge box-office hit. - 30202
The amount of money that can be used up on a film in order to make a blockbuster success seems to be inexhaustible. But the fact of the matter is that until the movie hits the box office and actually brings in huge sales in ticket receipts it is a risk. Of course, there are always those directors who seem to have the magic touch and there are stars who possess the magic to be able to secure a blockbuster for awhile, if you look at past history even the most popular stars have acted in box-office disasters.
Hollywood has brought us what seems like millions of films and it would seem that they would know exactly what the public wants to see. However, popular opinion is unpredictable and there are no sure things. Sometimes a big-budget film with all of the seeming best aspects for success still fails miserably at the box office.
An excellent instance of this phenomenon happened in the not to distant past. In 2005, the film "Sahara" was released with an all-star group of actors, great special effects and more. The motion picture really did quite well at the box office where it opened to $18 million on the first weekend. The movie generated $122 million in gross-box office receipts, which is not too bad. But this movie was tremendously costly to produce. It ended up losing a ton of money because it had expenses of $281.2 million right through the production yet it only brought in revenues of $202.9 million. "Sahara" was one of the biggest economic failures in Hollywood history.
Looking at the contrast, in'99, "The Blair Witch Project" essentially had the highest ratio of box office sales compared to production costs in American filmmaking history until 2009 when "Paranormal Activity" eclipsed it. There are varying reports on the production cost of "The Blair Witch Project" but the highest approximation was at $100,000. This motion picture grossed over $248 million at the box office globally.
One key factor but by no means a promise for box office success is making a buzz with media coverage. This can produce a frenzy of eagerness that can contribute greatly to a great opening weekend. But opening weekend receipts never tell the complete story and in order to be a huge box-office achievement a motion picture must continue to be popular.
Even though Hollywood has brought us so many movies and one might think that they would have figured out how precisely to make a runaway success hit, a great part of the excitement for producers and movie attendees alike is the fact that there are no guarantees. "Sure thing" movie plots and "can't miss" actors don't actually exist.
There will always be those shocking box office surprises, either the startling blockbuster hit or the failure that no one could forecast. And that is part of the magic and fascination of films and Hollywood; you never know just what might be the huge box-office hit. - 30202
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