Ben Affleck breaks down why a $25M movie has to make $100M just to break even

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Affleck: "It's very, very difficult to make a movie for less than $25 million"

"You spend about the same amount to advertise the movie as you spend to make it. So you spent $25 million to make it, $25 million to advertise it now you've got $50 million into the movie"

"From the theaters you get back roughly 50%. So if a movie makes $100 million, you get back $50 million. You've got to gross a hundred million just in simple math"

"People now go, 'this movie looks good, but I'll see it when it comes on streaming'"

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0 +1 Shitsandgiggles 3 weeks ago

When hollyweird actors and musicians want to promote they all mention trump trump trump

0 +1 Quint_Beastwood 3 weeks ago

Clint Eastwood westerns are the only thing worth watching. Everything else can phuck right off.

2 +1 Lemmiwinks 3 weeks ago

No. Wrong. A $25M movie needs to make $100M to break even by appeasing the jewish producers. The hollywood fee is baked into the loan

4 +1 Lemmiwinks 3 weeks ago

@Lemmiwinks Don’t forget paying Zendaya, Timothée Chalemet, Tom Holland & Pedro Pascal. apparently the only actors to exist nowadays

7 +1 BillD.Wall 3 weeks ago

When movies were still shot on film , the film itself was such a significant expenditure that assholes like Afleck never would have ended up on screen. The film wouldn't/couldn't have been wasted on shit rags like him and his contemporaries. It's only since the advent of video , and the fact that it doesn't cost anything , that fuckwads like Seth Rogan can take a nauseating 143 attempts at something he was hoping might eventually come out funny.

9 +1 Mowki 3 weeks ago

yet decades ago since the last good movie appeared. quality is not a quetion of money - it's about good acting. sure, if the movie is lame you need all the shit, stunts, special effects etc. so please shut the fuck up, you''re all by far overpaid. i have nothing against ben but that's reality my friend.

1 +1 Swedishtroll69 3 weeks ago

@Mowki

Are you thinking of Debbie does Dallas?

3 +1 Swedishtroll69 3 weeks ago

Promotion your shit for free on YT! Dumb as fuck!

2 +1 Swedishtroll69 3 weeks ago

@Swedishtroll69

Edit: Promote

8 +1 Tuukka 3 weeks ago

And then there are low budget movies like Obsession and Backrooms that killed it.

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4 +1 tommix1 3 weeks ago

@Tuukka Lost at sea in a lifeboat movies, cheapest of all time.

0 +1 Tuukka 3 weeks ago

@tommix1 Haven't seen it, but The Blair Witch Project is a good one.

11 +1 Cripple 3 weeks ago

Or, be like Mel Gibson and bankroll the entire thing and bypass 50% or more in fees, interest, and other expenses associated with the usual movie making costs.

0 +1 JobyFluorine 3 weeks ago

@Cripple Yeah! It's not like Ben can't afford to produce his own movie.

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3 +1 tommix1 3 weeks ago

Not nearly as many people give a damn now.