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Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks

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Monday, September 18, 2023 3:51 PM

That Dated Retro Look



Cinematography & Cameras
https://filmcourage.com/2023/09/15/how-to-get-a-retro-70s-film-look/
How To Get A Retro 70s Film Look


Is This the End of Existing IP Domination?
https://screencraft.org/blog/is-this-the-end-of-existing-ip-domination/
Do you need existing IP to make a sale in Hollywood? The answer is a tricky one.

Quote:

IP fatigue settles in when the audience doesn’t want to pay money for something they’ve already seen, and it can hurt box office numbers.



Not sure if these will be good but Nowhere is an upcoming fictional survival thriller, plot follows the plight of pregnant woman Mia, fleeing a totalitarian country in a shipping container



Blood Debts
https://monsterhuntermoviereviews.com/2018/05/12/blood-debts-1985/
,
https://www.moviemeter.com/movies/action/blood-debts
,
https://trashy-filipino-war-movies.blogspot.com/2010/02/blood-debts.ht
ml

,
https://www.blu-ray.com/Blood-Debts/1372790/

Arena


https://www.film-nerd.com/arena-1989/
,
https://www.scifi-movies.com/en/short/0000158/arena-1989/
,
https://letterboxd.com/film/arena/
,
https://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2023/06/arena-1989/

Before big budget Fantasy epic and Game of Thrones was Dragonslayer is a 1981 American dark fantasy film Budget 15$-$20 million

https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2023/03/4k-ultra-hd-review-dragonslayer
-1981
/

The Black Hole before big blockbuster scifi, a Budget 15$-$20 million

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-creeping-celluloids/id158129
3701?i=1000533477604


DeepStar Six

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-undersea-horror-movies-of-the-lat
e-1980s
/

Swing Kids, Dance and War era

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=swingkids.htm

The Chumscrubber

https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-chumscrubber-vm1927722

Germany 'Afire' or German language Roter Himmel, lit.?'Red Sky'
https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/roter-himmel_d9ea2ab4d489475b8ae57d
f6b649309f


The Ordinaries
https://theordinaries-film.com/

Foreign language Korean, Dr. Cheon and Lost Talisman

https://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Dr_p__Cheon_and_Lost_Talisman.p
hp


,

https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/kor/detail/movie/K/35055

Mind Universe

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/987466

Razorback is a 1984 Australian natural horror film

https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/razorback/

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Monday, September 18, 2023 3:54 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


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.



and because films like Barbie and SuperMario made money expect Hollywood to pat itself on the back and reward film remakes of paint by numbers of little imagination?

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Monday, September 18, 2023 9:24 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


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.



and because films like Barbie and SuperMario made money expect Hollywood to pat itself on the back and reward film remakes of paint by numbers of little imagination?




Oh sure. You know there's going to be a Barbie 2 and Super Mario Bros. 2.

The real question is, will the people reward their laziness and give them over a Billion each when they come out?

Also, I'm wondering if they're going to try to make Extended Universes for each of them. That's something that only really makes sense in Comic Book movies. People aren't going to come out for a toy figure extended universe very long. They did for LEGO, but it made sense there. Putting He-Man and She-Ra with Barbie and Polly Pocket is just dumb.

And I can't imagine it would be much better with video games. Have the characters from different properties gotten together before? Sure. The Smash Bros. and Super Mario Kart series are some of the most popular franchises ever made. I just don't see how they could make a big budget movie series doing this. And it would be a MUCH bigger budget just because of licensing fees, unless Nintendo was only going to limit it to Nintendo creations which eliminates a lot of the more interesting characters like Mega-Man and the Belmonts. (Both of which were main characters in the 80's cartoon Captain N: The Game Master). Aside from some breakout hits, the Nintendo bench isn't all that deep.



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Saturday, October 7, 2023 12:03 AM

Don't know the budget and not sure if good but its a 2023 American action-thriller with Aaron Eckhart

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Monday, October 23, 2023 6:13 PM

Not sure of budget

Society of the Snow - a sports rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes.

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Sunday, June 2, 2024 10:19 PM

already mentioned

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron Explores the Ghibli Master's Journey on His Latest Film
https://gizmodo.com/hayao-miyazaki-and-the-heron-ghibli-documentary-ca
nnes-1851489162


Official Trailer for 'Join or Die' Doc About America's Civic Unraveling

https://www.firstshowing.net/2024/official-trailer-for-join-or-die-doc
-about-americas-civic-unraveling
/

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Monday, June 10, 2024 6:29 PM

Remember when Hollywood would make movies on a Budget of $30-50 million


From Japan the movie Godzilla Minus One made ten times its budget, $116 million worldwide on an estimated $10–12 million budget


The Latest Will Smith Bad Boys is considered 'Low' these days with a Budget $100 million

What the hack has happened to product costs?

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Monday, June 10, 2024 11:30 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Remember when Hollywood would make movies on a Budget of $30-50 million


From Japan the movie Godzilla Minus One made ten times its budget, $116 million worldwide on an estimated $10–12 million budget


The Latest Will Smith Bad Boys is considered 'Low' these days with a Budget $100 million

What the hack has happened to product costs?





That's the big question that they're going to have to find an answer to.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is going to break even, but probably not much more than that. And the really sad thing is that when it does it will be among a group of only 4 or 5 big-budget Hollywood movies in 2024 that didn't lose money so far.

If Ride or Die only carried a reasonable $25 Million budget, it would have been a major success, likely making 10 to 12 times the budget when it's over.

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Thursday, July 4, 2024 3:49 AM

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is wacky and other cult stuff talked about...

and maybe Hundreds of Beavers



The Man from Earth

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/

Dogtooth

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1379182/

Escape from Tomorrow

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2187884/

Dark Star

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/

25 Low Budget Films That Launched Careers

https://raindance.org/25-low-budget-films-that-launched-careers/

Blue Ruin

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blue_ruin

Nomadland

https://godalmingfilmsoc.org.uk/film-archive/2021-22/nomadland/

“One Cut of the Dead”

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/movies-tv/one-cut-of-the-
dead-star-yuzuki-akiyama-on-the-movies-surprise-mega-success
/

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Monday, July 8, 2024 6:37 PM

not sure of budget

‘Jim Henson: Idea Man’ Disney+ Review - Celebrating the Visionary Behind the Muppets

https://moviesr.net/p-jim-henson-idea-man-disney-review-celebrating-th
e-visionary-behind-the-muppets

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