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The movie industry is doomed.

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öde:
Hollywood isn't making any money anymore, due to pirating. Bear in mind that's just box office grosses, not 100% of money made from films.

KharBevNor:
Navigating around a bit, I can't fucking believe that X-Men: The Last Stand is now the most expensive film ever made.

ThePQ4:
...Kinda makes me wonder what the lowest box-office openers, and least expensive films made are... But no one ever wants to talk about that, prolly 'cause they're rubbish.

KharBevNor:
Zyzzyx Road grossed $30 in the box office, 0.0015% of it's $2,000,000 budget. Very low budget films, if they're good, can often be very profitable. El Mariachi cost a mere $7,000 to make, and grossed $2,040,920 at the US box office alone. The Blair Witch Project, which cost $35,000 to make (a huge part of that advertising, as far as I'm aware) has grossed an insane $248,300,000 worldwide. A lot of these films end up making back profits in video and DVD sales and TV liscensing though. There's quite a lot of even smaller films for which figures aren't even available. I can easily imagine that films like Bad Taste, The Evil Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Spit on Your Grave, some of which were probably filmed for under $5000, (some of them probably less) have made absolutely ridiculous returns, profit-wise.

Inlander:
Bah, every few months somebody in the industry wails that "D.V.D.s/Pirating/Giant mutant octopi are killing Hollywood". Me, I say that a critical lack of imagination and a piss-weak fear of investing in anything other than endless regurgitations of the same old shit movie concepts are killing Hollywood.

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