Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 02:34
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and of course many old Cinema Classics like the French cinema, HK or Japanese
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Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon - The Allure Of Narrative Unreliability
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Not sure if good but...
Bad, Shock, B-Movie, Gore with weird Camp Horror Music
Inferno Of Torture - Japanese capital punishment in the 19th century
it might fall into that brand of 'Horror' or Lone Wolf and Cub
or
Sonny Chiba... he died from Covid
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Pollen 2023 is Low Budget but maybe not very good
maybe not truly indie Government backed or Corporate backed??
Over-Budget $22 million 'Masters of the Universe' it made a Box office $17 million
Not Good but Very Bad or Cult?
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2023/08/30/masters-of-the-universe-v
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Purple Sunset 2001 an anti-war film set in August 1945, at the time during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and when the Japanese were in the throes of defeat during World War II and losing control of mainland China
foreign release was in the 2001 Hawaii film festival, it might have been low budget because it got funded by the Chinese government and has some Communist propaganada but it is still respected for interesting camera work and its story telling
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Sofia Coppola I know some a still very fanatical about film here but I will dare say she can possible be better than both her Mother and Father...she is already a very different director
Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi
Budget $4 million
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The Royal Hotel is a 2023 Australian thriller film
Most Aussie movies are made for under 5 Million
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I assume Japan animation is Low-ish Budget, it can be anywhere between 5$ Million - $25 million
A Horror
It looks Low Budget, not sure if 'Good'
Bloodthirst | Costas Mandylor, Tara Reid and Robert LaSardo
Venus
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For now Hollywood productions are still too expensive
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maybe they can learn lessons from indie movies and overseas film and keep costs low
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
For now Hollywood productions are still too expensive
maybe they can learn lessons from indie movies and overseas film and keep costs low
Have you seen my 2 new charts at the top of the Hollywood thread?
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65735
$4,836,453,077 spent on the budgets for 53 US made movies so far released in 2023.
$13,218,766,641 so far grossed Worldwide on them, or 273%.
A profit of only $3,697,008,144 with the 2.0x Rule of Thumb.
And only a profit of $1,363,781,606 with the 2.5x Rule of Thumb, which is more likely in 2023.
30 of 53 movies have made profit so far with the 2.0x Rule of Thumb.
Only 21 of those movies have made profit with 2.5xRoT.
Barbie (6th place) is the only movie in the top 10 that cost more than $100 Million (at $145M).
Super Mario Bros (4th place), Oppenheimer (7th place) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (9th place) all cost $100 Million.
Missing (10th place) cost $7 Million. Evil Dead Rise (8th Place) cost $19 Million. Insidious: The Red Door (6th Place) cost $16 Million. Talk To Me (3rd Place) cost $4.5 Million. Sound of Freedom (2nd Place) cost $14.5 Million. M3GAN (1st Place) cost $12 Million).
The combined production budgets for the top 10 movies in 2023 on September 10th is $516 Million. They have so far grossed $5,171,466,310 worldwide (or 1,002% of their combined budgets)
The combined production budgets for the 6 movies in the Top Ten that cost less than $100 Million to make was $73 Million. They have so far grossed $831,524,487 worldwide (or 1,139% of their combined budgets).
Universal has done something right this year. Even with the 2.5x RoT it's grossed $1,368,935,690 in 2023, which is slightly more than Hollywood combined has grossed with 2.5x RoT after you subtract all the losers. It's had success with both big(ish) budget movies like Super Mario Bros ($100 Million) & Oppenheimer ($100 Million), as well as low budget movies like M3GAN ($12 Million) and to a lesser degree with Knock at the Cabin ($20 Million) & Cocaine Bear ($35 Million). Although for what they were the last two cost too much money to make and they did little more than break even on them with RoT 2.5x.
Universal's only actual misstep in 2023 was giving an $86 Million budget to Renfield. Whoever greenlit that was probably fired a long time ago now. That one lost them over $180 Million, keeping them from being able to brag that they've banked over $1.5 Billion so far.
But at least they're not Disney...
Disney doesn't even show up on the list with its monstrous budgets until 18th Place.
And they've only got one movie that doesn't lose money with the 2.5x RoT out of the 6 releases they've had so far this year (7 if you include Peter Pan & Wendy that they dumped on Disney+ after spending $170 Million to make it, which I do).
Disney's entire combined budget for 7 movies this year was $1,527,750,000 (or 31.6% of Hollywood's entire combined budget for Top 100 movies in 2023).
Disney has only grossed $2,817,720,674 off of those 7 movies (or 184% of the budgets). It loses on both the RoT models with $67,779,326 in the red for 2.0x and a staggering $746,654,326 loss with RoT 2.5x.
The combined losses for the 6 studios who lost money in 2023 with the 2.5x RoT is $1,359,683,018. Of that figure, Disney accounts for 55% of the 2023 losses so far.
Check out the Studios chart:
2023 WINNERS AND LOSERS (STUDIOS)
By PROFIT ACCORDING TO 2.0x Rule of Thumb (RoT)
Up to date as of 09/10/2023
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